Someone tell Mr. Brooks that psychology has been investigating the limits of human rationality for quite some time. In fact, Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on these limits.
Brooks has the effrontery to make two more ridiculous statements:
The core problem with Westen’s book is that he doesn’t really make use of what we know about emotion.
The best way to win votes — and this will be a shocker — is to offer people an accurate view of the world and a set of policies that seem likely to produce good results.
All of a sudden, Brooks is a clinical psychologist and a (revisionist) political historian.
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