Who is This?

David Brooks has written a column on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times since September 2003. Brooks was previously "a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator" on PBS's "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." Brooks is "the author of Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive : How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, both published by Simon & Schuster," his New York Times bio states.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Values Question

It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform. But, like all great public issues, the health care debate is fundamentally a debate about values. It’s a debate about what kind of country we want America to be. Share your ...

From DAVID BROOKS, International Herald Tribune,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Harvard Medical School,  Wall Street Journal,  U.S. Democratic Party

David Brooks: Geithner was mostly right, his critics mostly wrong

mobilized to improve the presentation of the policy. The political team worked hard to deflect criticism from Geithner onto themselves. It's amazing to go back and read what people were saying about Timothy Geithner in the spring. Many people said he ...

From DAVID BROOKS, TwinCities.com,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Brooks,  Barack Obama,  Timothy F. Geithner,  The New Republic,  Portfolio Magazine

Op-Ed Columnist: What Geithner Got Right

It’s amazing to go back and read what people were saying about Timothy Geithner in the spring. Many people said he looked terrified as the Treasury secretary, like Bambi in the headlights. The New Republic ran an essay called “The Geithner Disaster.” ...

From DAVID BROOKS, International Herald Tribune,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Timothy F. Geithner,  The New Republic,  Portfolio Magazine,  Robert Redford

Western Men Are Doomed

David Brooks: Gail, I don’t know if you had a chance to see my column Tuesday, but China always gets me thinking big. I look at the long history and bright future of that civilization-state and suddenly you’ve got to chase me down with a butterfly net ...

From DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Brooks,  Gail Collins,  U.S. Congress

David Brooks: Back to (our faith in) the future

Chinese now have lavish faith in their scientific and technological potential. Newsweek and Intel just reported the results of their Global Innovation Survey. Only 22 percent of the Chinese believe their country is an innovation leader now, but 63 ...

From DAVID BROOKS, TwinCities.com,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Brooks,  Intel,  Newsweek,  James Fallows,  Deng Xiaoping

Op-Ed Columnist: The Nation of Futurity

When European settlers first came to North America, they saw flocks of geese so big that it took them 30 minutes to all take flight and forests that seemed to stretch to infinity. They came to two conclusions: that God’s plans for humanity could be ...

From DAVID BROOKS, International Herald Tribune,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Intel,  James Fallows,  Deng Xiaoping,  Barack Obama

David Brooks: John Thune, a nice conservative guy from the prairie

to be untouched by cynicism. In speeches and interviews, he is straightforward, intelligent and earnest. He sometimes seems to have emerged straight into the 21st century from a more wholesome time. Some days the Republican Party seems to be going ...

From DAVID BROOKS, TwinCities.com,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  David Brooks,  Barack Obama,  Bob McDonnell,  John Thune

Op-Ed Columnist: Meet John Thune

Some days the Republican Party seems to be going crazy. Its public image is often shaped by people who appear to have gone into government because they saw it as a steppingstone to talk radio. But deep in the bowels of the G.O.P., there are serious ...

From DAVID BROOKS, International Herald Tribune,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Bob McDonnell,  John Thune,  Tom Daschle

The Conversation: Awed and Depressed by a Health Care Bill

Susan Walsh/The Associated Press Senator Joseph Lieberman telling reporters late last month that he will not allow the health care reform bill “to come to a final vote” if it contains a public option. Gail Collins: David, when I watched the House of ...

From DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joe Lieberman,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Congressional Budget Office

David Brooks: A malevolent narrative and its consequences

We're all born late. We're born into history that is well under way. We're born into cultures, nations and languages that we didn't choose. On top of that, we're born with certain brain chemicals and genetic predispositions that we can't control. We're ...

From DAVID BROOKS, TwinCities.com,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Brooks,  Nidal Malik Hasan

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