David Brooks: Only corporate America can save us from social isolation

David Brooks (Credit: PBS)
In his Tuesday New York Times column, David Brooks argued that America’s last hope of being the community-based country Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about 181 years ago could very well the new people Mitt Romney and the Supreme Court declared also live here — corporations.
After lamenting about the way in which “the rise of TV and the Internet” has created an epidemic of “social isolation,” Brooksargued that “we’re beginni