New Orleans       As tech gazillionaires line up at Mar-de-Lago to “kiss the key,” as the papers called it, of President-elect Trump, they have to be hoping that the next administration will be nothing buy high clover for the rich, assuming that Trump will put all of this populist stuff on the back burner once …

            Marble Falls       David Brooks has made a living in books, New York Times columns, and the academy as a palatable social critic and commentator.  He’s deeply conservative, but in a tolerable and largely unoffensive way.  He’s a “never Trumper,” who goes out of his way to try and understand the Trump base; he’s …