Frank Bruni: Digital Cocoons, Political Polarization and the Path Back to Common Ground

Whether Frank Bruni's writing about Marco Rubio, "glassy ribbons of seared foie gras between ... thick, glistening dominoes of beef" or college-admissions angst, his ideas have a certain snap. Indeed, when he came to national prominence as the New York Times food critic, Bruni had been a White House correspondent and film critic. Once he ascended to the rarified ranks of the Gray Lady's op-ed page, he filled that role in unexpected ways. Most conspicuously, and most unlike your average Times columnist, he wrote about himself with the same candor...