He could take Steven Colbert’s place.
The Common Core is anti-Torah at its core. Therefore it is rotten to the core. Rotting, as something that is dead is rotten. It masquerades as an earnest attempt to improve Americas pedagogic performance. In reality it destroys the creative wellsprings of the Western Tradition: the Judeo-Christian world view, built, however imperfectly, on the foundation of the Torah Ethic. Common Core was created by people who do not have that understanding of life. Their world view could not and did not bring forth the greatness of America. All they can do is deny the Ethic that gave our nation its birth, co-opt its life force, and then declare that it was Their world view that that did it in the first place. If this is OK with David Brooks it is because he does not know G-d and has no respect for his Torah.