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When I meet someone who runs an organization in a blue state, I often ask: Do you have a generation gap where you work? The answer – whether the person leads a college, a nonprofit, a tech company,...
DATE: Nov. 30, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
What should we do during the next two years of divided government? We could spend them as we’ve spent the last two: Express daily contempt from within the safety of our political silos. This seems...
DATE: Nov. 26, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
There’s a powerful moment at the start of Anne Applebaum’s recent essay in The Atlantic. She’s recalling a party she threw on Dec. 31, 1999, at her home in Poland. Many of the hundred-odd guests...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Every few years, one research group or another produces a typology of the electorate. The researchers conduct thousands of interviews and identify the different clusters American voters fall into....
DATE: Oct. 20, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
I disagree with academic feminism a lot but it is right about the big thing. For thousands of years, social thinking has been dominated by men who saw life as a place where warriors competed for...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Over the past few years, hundreds of organizations and thousands of people (myself included) have mobilized to reduce political polarization, encourage civil dialogue and heal national divisions....
DATE: Oct. 9, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Is there room for a third party? If some independent mounted a presidential bid in 2020, would that person have a chance? Those are questions we won’t be able to answer for a few years. If the...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
We’ve tried liberalism and conservatism, and now we’re trying populism. Maybe the next era of public life will be defined by a resurgence of localism. Localism is the belief that power should be...
DATE: July 22, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
When C.S. Lewis was a boy, his mother died. “With my mother’s death,” he wrote, “all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many...
DATE: July 18, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to write a comforting column. The thesis was going to be that even though President Donald Trump is doing his best to inflame racial division, we are...
DATE: July 15, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
In the weeks ahead, we’re going to spend a lot of time going over Brett Kavanaugh’s biography – where he’s from and what he’s written. But that is not the most important thing about him. Kavanaugh...
DATE: July 10, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
Ripping children away from their parents is the most cinematically cruel part of the Trump immigration policy, but it is not the most telling part. The most telling part is what happened to Ludvin...
DATE: June 25, 2018 | COLUMN: David Brooks
The Durango Herald is assisting Santa this year in collecting letters from local children. Drop off your child’s letter to Santa in the mailbox in front of The Durango Herald, 1275 Main Avenue, in downtown Durango. All letters will be added to this photo gallery and a selection will run in The Durango Herald on Dec. 22.
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