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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

Government can’t make us happy, David Brooks

To: David Brooks Columnist, The New York Times Dear David, We’ve met a few times over the years. I’m a big fan. You write beautifully and, more often than no...

DATE: Apr 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Why you too will love Mayor Pete BOOT-edge-edge

Pete Buttigieg has some kind of magic right now. His campaign bio, “Shortest Way Home,” was the 25th-best-selling book on Amazon. That put him just a few dozen places behind Miche...

DATE: Apr 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

We’ve all just made fools of ourselves – again

“You have a president who, in my opinion, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government, a foreign power, to undermine and influence our el...

DATE: Mar 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

How the American left fell in love with elitism

Over the past generation, global capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in human poverty in history. Over the past 10 years, American capitalism has produced 20 million ne...

DATE: Feb 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Kamala Harris could be the fighter Dems need

The more you learn about Kamala Harris, the more formidable she appears. She is an amazing amalgam of different elements – highly educated elite meritocrat, Oakland street fighter...

DATE: Feb 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

This is how we destroy lives now on social media

Within living memory, political polarization had at least something to do with issues, but in the age of social media, it’s almost entirely about social type. It’s about finding a...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

We need to make our free markets moral again

Suddenly economic populism is all the rage. In his now famous monologue on Fox News, Tucker Carlson argued that American elites are using ruthless market forces to enrich themselv...

DATE: Jan 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

It’s the year of the wolf – and not in any good way

In Willa Cather’s novel “My Antonia,” there are two kind Russian farmers named Peter and Pavel who have settled on the Nebraska prairie. On his deathbed, Pavel tells the story of ...

DATE: Jan 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Awards for long-form ideas journalism, continued

In her essay “ In one striking part of the essay, which appeared in The Atlantic, Julian shows that fewer young people are having the kind of relationships that lead to sex. In 1995, 74 per...

DATE: Jan 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Best of 2018 long-form journalism about ideas

At the end of every year I give out the Sidney Awards to celebrate and recommend great examples of long-form journalism. I do it so that we can step out of the daily rush of event...

DATE: Dec 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks