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A few months ago, I wrote a column saying I would vote for Elizabeth Warren over Donald Trump. I may not agree with some of her policies, but culture is more important than politics. She does not...
DATE: March 5, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Successful presidential candidates are myth-makers. They don’t just tell a story. They tell a story that helps people make meaning out of the current moment; that divides people into heroes and...
DATE: Feb. 27, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of personal...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
As several people have noticed, this was the most politically successful week of the Trump presidency. First, President Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are rising. When the impeachment inquiry...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
This is a golden age for “Theyism,” the belief that there is some malevolent, elite “they” out there and “they” are destroying life for the rest of us. There is Donald Trump’s culture-war Theyism:...
DATE: Jan. 24, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him – that...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
I was a socialist in college. I read magazines like The Nation and old issues of The New Masses. I dreamed of being the next Clifford Odets, a lefty playwright who was always trying to raise...
DATE: Dec. 21, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
This has been a golden age for brain research. We now have amazing brain scans that show which networks in the brain ramp up during different activities. But this emphasis on the brain has subtly...
DATE: Dec. 6, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Crowds are chanting “Death to Khamenei” in Iran while the regime kills them en masse and shuts down the internet. Throngs are marching to preserve democratic rights in Hong Kong; Warsaw, Poland;...
DATE: Nov. 29, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Let me tell you a secret. The public buildings of Washington are filled with very good people working hard for low pay and the public good. There are thousands of them and they are very much like...
DATE: Nov. 21, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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. The...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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 inequality,...
DATE: Oct. 31, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
The homeless population at Purple Cliffs now have a kitchen, running water, bathrooms and hand sanitizer. They made a group decision not to leave the camp whenever possible due to the Coronavirus . They even have a mini-government growing. People not at the camp are having a different experience.
