David Brooks
David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, author of The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019), and director of Weave: The Social Fabric Project.
Bio last updated November 17th, 2020.
Articles by David Brooks
Phone Home
By Steve Paikin, and Arthur Brooks, David Brooks, Anne Snyder
January 2, 2020
Questions and Answers
In early December, as the second decade of the 21st century closed, Cardus hosted a panel discussion in Toronto hosted by TV Ontario’s Steve Paikin and featuring New York Times columnist David Brooks, Anne Snyder, editor of Convivium’s sister publication Comment, and Arthur Brooks, founder of the American Enterprise Institute and now an academic at Harvard Could you talk more about how the intersection between the place where people live and the polarization that they experience, as well as the roots of their resentment as they've watched essentially their farms emptied out by agribusiness, their towns emptied out by offshoring, and then their lives emptied out by pharmaceuticals People who use social media less than half an hour a day have higher levels of social connection because they use it to find out what's going on with their real relationships Originally, the Cardus discussion was designed to extend the Munk debate, but host Paikin and the three panellists decided on a more compelling topic: the political polarization that is splintering American and Canadian life And they're very open to saying, "Yes, these people are actually revitalizing even our moral sensibilities as a community I predict that within four or five years, Fox News will be a different phenomenon, as will MSNBC and the similar products all across the political spectrum in the United States that are polarizing Whether it's in rural Nebraska or urban New Orleans, the people I meet with who are really healing community and building relationships use the same language Both David and Anne have touched on the role of place in polarization
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Righting The Polarization Express
Steve Paikin, and Arthur Brooks, David Brooks, Anne Snyder
December 31, 2019
What is the antidote to political polarization?
In early December, as the second decade of the 21st century closed, Cardus hosted a panel discussion in Toronto hosted by TV Ontario’s Steve Paikin and featuring New York Times columnist David Brooks, Anne Snyder, editor of Convivium’s sister publication Comment, and Arthur Brooks, founder of the Am...
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Riding Out The Polarization Express
Steve Paikin, and Arthur Brooks, David Brooks, Anne Snyder
December 31, 2019
The Startup Your Life Project
Steve Paikin: Arthur, I've talked to a lot of people in Canada who do not understand how God-fearing religious people in the United States can be so utterly supportive of a man who pays porn stars to keep their secrets; who has cheated on every wife he's got, who does not lead the life of a spiritua...
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The Polarization Express
Steve Paikin, and Arthur Brooks, David Brooks, Anne Snyder
December 30, 2019
How did we get into the tunnel, and can anything light our way out?
Steve Paikin: Do you see any way out of the polarization that infects so much of the world today, particularly in the city in which you live right now, Washington D.C In early December, as the second decade of the 21st century closed, Cardus hosted a panel discussion in Toronto hosted by TV Ontario’...