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David Brooks: Impeach Trump – and then move on

Is it possible that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to convict Donald Trump of articles of impeachment? When you hang around Washington, you get the sense that it could happen. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

David Brooks: Tipping is broken and immoral

For most of my life, I’ve been glad that America is a society that relies heavily on tipping. First, tipping allows us to reward excellent service. Second, in a world of rising economic ineq...

DATE: Oct 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren is a bad choice ... that we’d have to make

If the general election campaign turns out to be Trump vs. Warren, what the heck are we supposed to do? The first thing we could do, of course, is pray for a miracle. Maybe the De...

DATE: Oct 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

A brief history of the Elizabeth Warren presidency

From 2050, a look back at our political evolution: A crisis of legitimacy swept across American politics in the second decade of the 21st century. Many people had the general conv...

DATE: Sep 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Greatness doesn’t demand that you be a jerk, too

Soren Kierkegaard asked God to give him the power to will one thing. Amid all the distractions of life he asked for the power to live a focused life, wholeheartedly, toward a single point. ...

DATE: Aug 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

With political art, who will teach us how to feel?

My colleagues at T Magazine had a very good idea. They gathered some artists and museum curators and asked them to name the artworks that define the contemporary age – pieces created anywher...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

The real meaning behind Pelosi versus the Squad

What’s at stake in the struggle between Nancy Pelosi and the four progressive House members known as the squad? Partly it’s just the perpetual conflict between younger members wh...

DATE: Jul 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Harvard is choosing the wrong path to wisdom

Over the past year and a half, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have handled themselves with a fervor and commitment that has, most of the time, in...

DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Dear voters, your views on foreign policy stink!

Most of human history has been marked by war. Between 1500 and 1945, scarcely a year went by without one great power fighting another. Then, in 1945, that stopped. Battlefield dea...

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Witches, astrology speak to resistance, disruption

We’re living in the middle of a religious revival; it’s just that the movements are not what we normally call “religion.” The first is astrology. According to a 2018 Pew poll, 29%...

DATE: Jun 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

This war between Trump and Nadler is tawdry

Our system of checks and balances requires that political leaders hold two opposing ideas in their heads simultaneously. If you’re a political leader, the first is that your polit...

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Rituals comfort by reminding us we’re not alone

Recently I’ve been playing a game in my head called “There should be a ritual for...” There should be a ritual for when a felon has finished his sentence and is welcomed back whol...

DATE: Apr 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks