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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
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 Democrats will...
DATE: Oct. 23, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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 conviction that the...
DATE: Sept. 25, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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. We’ve...
DATE: Aug. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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 anywhere in...
DATE: July 27, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
A home on Jenkins Ranch Road sold for $3.1 million on Dec. 31, 2019, making it the most expensive sale within Durango city limits in recent memory, according to a local real estate agent. The 7,567-square-foot home has six bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and one half bathroom, and sits on 3.81 acres.
