https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/01/31/john-kenneth-galbraith-and-the-original-bobos/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:42:12 -0400<![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve mentioned recently, someone like Thomas Friedman of the New York Times can praise centrally-planned totalitarian China as if it was the greatest innovation in government since the days of Hammurabi, while ignoring its founding in original sin. But that sort of doublethink was pioneered almost a century ago by the original bourgeois-bohemians, to borrow from David Brooks&#8217; epochal 2000 book. They could look to the Soviet Union, and later Communist China as models of the future, all the while enjoying the wealth, luxuries and freedom of the west.]]>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:14:45 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2010/01/31/john-kenneth-galbraith-and-the-original-bobos-n251131