David Brooks writes this opinion in the NYT.  I am having a hard time understanding exactly what he is trying to say.  Can someone translate.  I am going to get my dictionary. 

“crooked timber school of public philosophy”
“epistemological modesty” 
“epistemological skepticism” 
OMG

How do you eat an elephant?  All in the first 100 days before the country can figure out what is going on!!

If Obama succeeds, conservatism is discredited.  I don’t think so.  I think I understood Bill Buckley better.