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David Brooks (commentator)

October 15, 2023

This article is about an American cultural commentator. For other people named David Brooks, see David Brooks (disambiguation).

David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)[1] is an American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times.[2][3] He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal,[4] a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek, and The Atlantic Monthly, in addition to working as a commentator on NPR and the PBS NewsHour.[1]

David Brooks
Brooks in 2022
Born (1961-08-11) August 11, 1961 (age 62)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (BA)
Occupation(s)Columnist, pundit
Spouses
  • Sarah (née Jane Hughes; m. 1986; div. 2013)
  • Anne Snyder
    ​
    (m. 2017)​

Early life and education Edit

Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario, where his father was working on a PhD at the University of Toronto. He spent his early years in the Stuyvesant Town housing development in New York City with his brother, Daniel. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at Columbia University. Brooks was raised Jewish but rarely attended synagogue in his later adult life.[5][6][7] As a young child, Brooks attended the Grace Church School, an independent Episcopal primary school in the East Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line, the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history.[1] His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey.[7]

As an undergraduate, Brooks frequently contributed reviews and satirical pieces to campus publications. His senior year, he wrote a spoof of the lifestyle of wealthy conservative William F. Buckley Jr., who was scheduled to speak at the university: "In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping."[8] To his piece, Brooks appended the note: "Some would say I'm envious of Mr. Buckley. But if truth be known, I just want a job and have a peculiar way of asking. So how about it, Billy? Can you spare a dime?" When Buckley arrived to give his talk, he asked whether Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered him a job.[9]

Early career Edit

Upon graduation, Brooks became a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.[1] He says that his experience on Chicago's crime beat had a conservatizing influence on him.[7] In 1984, mindful of the offer he had received from Buckley, Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern at Buckley's National Review. According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to the affluent lifestyle that Brooks had previously mocked, including yachting expeditions, Bach concerts, dinners at Buckley's Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford, Connecticut, and a constant stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities.

Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience. National Review was a Catholic magazine, and Brooks is not Catholic. Sam Tanenhaus later reported in The New Republic that Buckley might have eventually named Brooks his successor if it hadn't been for his being Jewish. "If true, it would be upsetting," Brooks says.[7]

After his internship with Buckley ended, Brooks spent some time at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University and wrote movie reviews for The Washington Times.

Career Edit

 
Brooks preparing for PBS Newshour in 2012

In 1986, Brooks was hired by The Wall Street Journal, where he worked first as an editor of the book review section. He also filled in for five months as a movie critic. From 1990 to 1994, the newspaper posted Brooks as an op-ed columnist to Brussels, where he covered Russia (making numerous trips to Moscow); the Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. On his return, Brooks joined the neo-conservative Weekly Standard when it was launched in 1994. Two years later, he edited an anthology, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing.[1][4]

External video
  Booknotes interview with Brooks on Bobos, July 30, 2000, C-SPAN

In 2000, Brooks published a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There to considerable acclaim. The book, a paean to consumerism, argued that the new managerial or "new upper class" represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self-interest of the 1980s.

According to a 2010 article in New York Magazine written by Christopher Beam, New York Times editorial-page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch.

Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist William Safire, but one who understood how liberals think. "I was looking for the kind of conservative writer that wouldn't make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window," says Collins. "He was perfect." Brooks started writing in September 2003. "The first six months were miserable," Brooks says. "I'd never been hated on a mass scale before."[7]

One column written by Brooks in The New York Times dismissed the conviction of Scooter Libby as being "a farce" and having "no significance"[10] was derided by political blogger Andrew Sullivan.[11]

In 2004, Brooks' book On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense was published as a sequel to his 2000 best seller, Bobos in Paradise, but it was not as well received as its predecessor. Brooks is also the volume editor of The Best American Essays (publication date October 2, 2012), and authored The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement.[12] The book was excerpted in The New Yorker in January 2011[13] and received mixed reviews upon its full publication in March of that year.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] It sold well and reached #3 on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011.[28]

Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006.[29] In 2013, he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility.[30]

In 2012, Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.[31] He also serves on the board of advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.[32]

In 2019, Brooks gave a TED talk in Vancouver entitled 'The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters – And a Better Way to Live'. TED curator Chris Anderson selected it as one of his favourite talks of 2019.[33]

Political ideology Edit

Brooks on PBS Newshour discussing the US presidential election in 2016.

Ideologically, Brooks has been described as a moderate,[34] a centrist,[35] a conservative,[36][37][38][39][40][41] and a moderate conservative.[42][43] Brooks has described himself as a "moderate",[44] and said in a 2017 interview that "[one] of [his] callings is to represent a certain moderate Republican Whig political philosophy."[45] In December 2021, he wrote that he placed himself "on the rightward edge of the leftward tendency—in the more promising soil of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party."[46] Ottawa Citizen conservative commentator David Warren has identified Brooks as a "sophisticated pundit"; one of "those Republicans who want to 'engage with' the liberal agenda".[47] When asked what he thinks of charges that he's "not a real conservative" or "squishy", Brooks has said that "if you define conservative by support for the Republican candidate or the belief that tax cuts are the correct answer to all problems, I guess I don't fit that agenda. But I do think that I'm part of a long-standing conservative tradition that has to do with Edmund Burke ... and Alexander Hamilton."[48] In fact, Brooks read Burke's work while he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and "completely despised it", but "gradually over the next five to seven years ... came to agree with him". Brooks claims that "my visceral hatred was because he touched something I didn't like or know about myself."[49] In September 2012, Brooks talked about being criticized from the conservative side, saying, "If it's from a loon, I don't mind it. I get a kick out of it. If it's Michelle Malkin attacking, I don't mind it." With respect to whether he was "the liberals' favorite conservative" Brooks said he "didn't care", stating: "I don't mind liberals praising me, but when it's the really partisan liberals, you get an avalanche of love, it's like uhhh, I gotta rethink this."[48]

Brooks describes himself as beginning as a liberal before, as he put it, "coming to my senses." He recounts that a turning point in his thinking came while he was still an undergraduate, when he was selected to present the socialist point of view during a televised debate with Nobel laureate free-market economist Milton Friedman.[5] As Brooks describes it, "[It] was essentially me making a point, and he making a two-sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point. ... That didn't immediately turn me into a conservative, but ..."[50] On August 10, 2006, Brooks wrote a column for The New York Times titled "Party No. 3". The column imagined a moderate McCain-Lieberman Party in opposition to both major parties, which he perceived as both polarized and beholden to special interests.[51]

In a March 2007 article published in The New York Times titled "No U-Turns",[52] Brooks explained that the Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal-government conservative principles that had arisen during the Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan eras. He claims that these core concepts had served their purposes and should no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win elections. Alex Pareene commented that Brooks "has been trying for so long to imagine a sensible Republican Party into existence that he can't still think it's going to happen soon."[53]

Iraq war Edit

Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Brooks argued for American military intervention, echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators.[54][55] In 2005, Brooks wrote what columnist Jonathan Chait described as "a witheringly condescending" column portraying Senator Harry Reid as an "unhinged conspiracy theorist because he accused the [George W. Bush] administration of falsifying its Iraq intelligence."[56][57] By 2008, five years into the war, Brooks maintained that the decision to go to war was correct, but that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had botched U.S. war efforts.[58]

In 2015, Brooks wrote that "[f]rom the current vantage point, the decision to go to war was a clear misjudgment" made in 2003 by President George W. Bush and the majority of Americans who supported the war, including Brooks himself.[59] Brooks wrote "many of us thought that, by taking down Saddam Hussein, we could end another evil empire, and gradually open up human development in Iraq and the Arab world. Has that happened? In 2004, I would have said yes. In 2006, I would have said no. In 2015, I say yes and no, but mostly no."[59] Citing the Robb-Silberman report, Brooks rejected as a "fable" the idea that "intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was all cooked by political pressure, that there was a big political conspiracy to lie us into war."[59] Instead, Brooks viewed the war as a product of faulty intelligence, writing that "[t]he Iraq war error reminds us of the need for epistemological modesty."[59]

Presidents elections and candidates Edit

Brooks was long a supporter of John McCain; however, he disliked McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin, calling her a "cancer" on the Republican Party, and citing her as the reason he voted for Obama in the 2008 presidential election.[60][61] He has referred to Palin as a "joke", unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination.[62] But he later admitted during a C-SPAN interview that he had gone too far in his previous "cancer" comments about Palin, which he regretted, and simply stated he was not a fan of her values.[63]

Brooks has frequently expressed admiration for President Barack Obama. In an August 2009, profile of Brooks, The New Republic describes his first encounter with Obama, in the spring of 2005: "Usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don't know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me. ... I remember distinctly an image of – we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, (a) he's going to be president and (b) he'll be a very good president."[64] Brooks appreciates that Obama thinks "like a writer", explaining, "He's a very writerly personality, a little aloof, exasperated. He's calm. He's not addicted to people."[49] Two days after Obama's second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, hit bookstores, Brooks published a column in The New York Times, titled "Run, Barack, Run", urging the Chicago politician to run for president.[65] However, in December 2011, during a C-SPAN interview, Brooks expressed a more tempered opinion of Obama's presidency, giving Obama only a "B−", and saying that Obama's chances of re-election would be less than 50–50 if elections were held at that time.[66] He stated, "I don't think he's integrated himself with people in Washington as much as he should have."[49] However, in a February 2016 New York Times op-ed, Brooks admitted that he missed Obama during the 2016 primary season, admiring the president's "integrity" and "humanity", among other characteristics.[67]

In regard to the 2016 election, Brooks spoke in support of Hillary Clinton, applauding her ability to be "competent" and "normal" in comparison to her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump.[68][69] In addition, Brooks noted that he believed Clinton would eventually be victorious in the election, as he foresaw that the general American public would become "sick of" Trump.[68][69]

When discussing the political emergence of Trump, Brooks has been strong in his critiques of the candidate, most notably by authoring a New York Times op-ed he titled "No, Not Trump, Not Ever". In this piece, Brooks attacked Trump by arguing he is "epically unprepared to be president" and by pointing out Trump's "steady obliviousness to accuracy".[70]

On the August 9, 2019 episode of the PBS NewsHour, Brooks suggested Trump may be a sociopath.[71]

Israel Edit

Brooks has expressed admiration for Israel and has visited almost every year since 1991. He supported Israel during the 2014 Gaza War.[72]

In writing for The New York Times in January 2010, Brooks described Israel as "an astonishing success story".[73] He wrote that "Jews are a famously accomplished group," who, because they were "forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages ... have been living off their wits ever since".[73] In Brooks' view, "Israel's technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world."[73][74]

Social views Edit

Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive behavior, such as the prevalence of teenage sex and divorce. His view is that "sex is more explicit everywhere barring real life. As the entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious" by "waiting longer to have sex ... [and] having fewer partners". In 2007, Brooks stated that he sees the culture war as nearly over, because "today's young people ... seem happy with the frankness of the left and the wholesomeness of the right." As a result, he was optimistic about the United States' social stability, which he considered to be "in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair".[75]

As early as 2003, Brooks wrote favorably of same-sex marriage, pointing out that marriage is a traditional conservative value. Rather than opposing it, he wrote: "We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity ... It's going to be up to conservatives to make the important, moral case for marriage, including gay marriage."[76]

In 2015, Brooks issued his commentary on poverty reform in the United States. His op-ed in The New York Times titled "The Nature of Poverty" specifically followed the social uproar caused by the death of Freddie Gray, and concluded that federal spending is not the issue impeding the progress of poverty reforms, but rather that the impediments to upward mobility are "matters of social psychology".[77] When discussing Gray in particular, Brooks claimed that Gray as a young man was "not on the path to upward mobility".[77]

In 2020, Brooks wrote in The Atlantic, under the headline "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake", that "recent signs suggest at least the possibility that a new family paradigm is emerging," suggesting that in the place of the "collapsed" nuclear one the "extended" family emerges, with "multigenerational living arrangements" that stretch even "across kinship lines."[78] Brooks had already started in 2017 a project called "Weave", in order, as he described it,[78] to "support and draw attention to people and organizations around the country who are building community" and to "repair [America]'s social fabric, which is badly frayed by distrust, division and exclusion."[79]

Brooks also takes a moderate position on abortion, which he thinks should be legal, but with parental consent for minors, during the first four or five months, and illegal afterward, except in extremely rare circumstances.[80]

He has expressed opposition to the legalization of marijuana, stating that use of the drug causes immoral behavior. Brooks relates that he smoked it in his youth but quit after a humiliating incident: Brooks smoked marijuana during lunch hour at school and felt embarrassed during a class presentation that afternoon in which he says he was incapable of intelligible speech.[81]

Criticisms Edit

Critics have claimed that Brooks' writings on sociology promote stereotypes and present false claims as factual. In 2004, Sasha Issenberg, writing for Philadelphia magazine, fact-checked Bobos in Paradise, arguing that many of its comments about middle America were misleading or the exact reverse of the truth.[82] He reported Brooks as insisting that the book was not intended to be factual but to report his impressions of what he believed an area to be like: "He laughed ... '[The book was] partially tongue-in-cheek'...I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable. He accused me of being 'too pedantic,' of 'taking all of this too literally,' of 'taking a joke and distorting it.' 'That's totally unethical', he said." Brooks later said the article made him feel that "I suck...I can't remember what I said but my mother told me I was extremely stupid."[7] In 2015, an opinion piece by David Zweig published in Salon claimed that Brooks had gotten "nearly every detail" wrong about a poll of high-school students.[83]

Michael Kinsley argued that Brooks was guilty of "fearless generalizing ... Brooks does not let the sociology get in the way of the shtick, and he wields a mean shoehorn when he needs the theory to fit the joke".[84] Writing for Gawker, which consistently criticized Brooks' work, opinion writer Tom Scocca argued that Brooks does not use facts and statistics to support his policy positions, noting "possibly that is because he perceives facts and statistics as an opportunity for dishonest people to work mischief".[85] Furthermore, Annie Lowrey, in writing for the New York magazine, criticized Brooks' statistical methods when arguing his stance on political reform, claiming he used "some very tricksy, misleading math".[86] Additionally, Sean Illing of Slate criticized the same article from Brooks, claiming he argued his point by framing his sources' arguments out of context and routinely making bold "half-right" assumptions regarding the controversial issue of poverty reform.[87]

In 2016, James Taranto criticized[88] Brooks' analysis[89] of the U.S. Supreme Court case Dretke v. Haley,[90] arguing that "Brooks's treatment of this case is either deliberately deceptive or recklessly ignorant".[88] Law professor Ann Althouse also argued that Brooks "distorts rather grotesquely" the case in question.[clarification needed][91] Brooks was previously criticized by Lyle Denniston with regard to another case, arguing that he "scrambled the actual significance of what the Supreme Court has done".[92]

In 2018, Brooks wrote an article in The New York Times about the generation gap between older and younger Democrats, in which he attributed young Democrats' radicalism to "the cultural Marxism that is now the lingua franca in the elite academy."[93] Brooks was criticized by journalist Ari Paul, writing for progressive media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), who claimed that Brooks "rebrands cultural Marxism as mere political correctness, giving the Nazi-inspired phrase legitimacy for the American right. It is dropped in or quoted in other stories—some of them lighthearted, like the fashion cues of the alt-right—without describing how fringe this notion is. It's akin to letting conspiracy theories about chem trails or vaccines get unearned space in mainstream press."[94] Ari Paul and Spencer Sunshine, an associate fellow at the Political Research Associates, argued that failure to highlight the nature of the Cultural Marxist conspiracy theory "has bitter consequences. 'It is legitimizing the use of that framework, and therefore it's coded antisemitism."[94]

Legacy Edit

Sidney Awards Edit

In 2004 Brooks created an award to honor the best political and cultural journalism of the year. Named for philosopher Sidney Hook and originally called "The Hookies", the honor was renamed "The Sidney Awards" in 2005. The awards are presented each December.[95][non-primary source needed]

Personal life Edit

Brooks met Jane Hughes, his first wife, while both attended the University of Chicago. She converted to Judaism[96] and changed her given name to Sarah;[97] they divorced in November 2013.[98][99] Their eldest son served in the Israel Defense Forces, as Brooks shared in a September 2014 interview for Israeli newspaper Haaretz.[100]

Brooks converted to Christianity over a period between 2013 and 2014.[101]

Brooks married Anne Snyder in 2017; they met while he wrote The Road to Character and she was his research assistant.[102]

Select bibliography Edit

  • Editor, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (Vintage, 1996) 0-6797-6654-5
  • Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) ISBN 0-684-85377-9
  • On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004) ISBN 0-7432-2738-7
  • The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011) ISBN 978-1-4000-6760-2
  • The Road to Character (Random House, 2015) ISBN 978-0-8129-9325-7
  • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019) ISBN 978-0-8-1299-3264

See also Edit

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This article is about an American cultural commentator For other people named David Brooks see David Brooks disambiguation David Brooks born August 11 1961 1 is an American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times 2 3 He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times a reporter and later op ed editor for The Wall Street Journal 4 a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly in addition to working as a commentator on NPR and the PBS NewsHour 1 David BrooksBrooks in 2022Born 1961 08 11 August 11 1961 age 62 Toronto Ontario CanadaNationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of Chicago BA Occupation s Columnist punditSpousesSarah nee Jane Hughes m 1986 div 2013 Anne Snyder m 2017 wbr Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early career 3 Career 4 Political ideology 4 1 Iraq war 4 2 Presidents elections and candidates 4 3 Israel 5 Social views 6 Criticisms 7 Legacy 7 1 Sidney Awards 8 Personal life 9 Select bibliography 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksEarly life and education EditBrooks was born in Toronto Ontario where his father was working on a PhD at the University of Toronto He spent his early years in the Stuyvesant Town housing development in New York City with his brother Daniel His father taught English literature at New York University while his mother studied nineteenth century British history at Columbia University Brooks was raised Jewish but rarely attended synagogue in his later adult life 5 6 7 As a young child Brooks attended the Grace Church School an independent Episcopal primary school in the East Village When he was 12 his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979 In 1983 Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history 1 His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey 7 As an undergraduate Brooks frequently contributed reviews and satirical pieces to campus publications His senior year he wrote a spoof of the lifestyle of wealthy conservative William F Buckley Jr who was scheduled to speak at the university In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name dropping 8 To his piece Brooks appended the note Some would say I m envious of Mr Buckley But if truth be known I just want a job and have a peculiar way of asking So how about it Billy Can you spare a dime When Buckley arrived to give his talk he asked whether Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered him a job 9 Early career EditUpon graduation Brooks became a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times 1 He says that his experience on Chicago s crime beat had a conservatizing influence on him 7 In 1984 mindful of the offer he had received from Buckley Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern at Buckley s National Review According to Christopher Beam the internship included an all access pass to the affluent lifestyle that Brooks had previously mocked including yachting expeditions Bach concerts dinners at Buckley s Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford Connecticut and a constant stream of writers politicians and celebrities Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience National Review was a Catholic magazine and Brooks is not Catholic Sam Tanenhaus later reported in The New Republic that Buckley might have eventually named Brooks his successor if it hadn t been for his being Jewish If true it would be upsetting Brooks says 7 After his internship with Buckley ended Brooks spent some time at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University and wrote movie reviews for The Washington Times Career Edit nbsp Brooks preparing for PBS Newshour in 2012In 1986 Brooks was hired by The Wall Street Journal where he worked first as an editor of the book review section He also filled in for five months as a movie critic From 1990 to 1994 the newspaper posted Brooks as an op ed columnist to Brussels where he covered Russia making numerous trips to Moscow the Middle East South Africa and European affairs On his return Brooks joined the neo conservative Weekly Standard when it was launched in 1994 Two years later he edited an anthology Backward and Upward The New Conservative Writing 1 4 External video nbsp Booknotes interview with Brooks on Bobos July 30 2000 C SPANIn 2000 Brooks published a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise The New Upper Class and How They Got There to considerable acclaim The book a paean to consumerism argued that the new managerial or new upper class represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self interest of the 1980s According to a 2010 article in New York Magazine written by Christopher Beam New York Times editorial page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist William Safire but one who understood how liberals think I was looking for the kind of conservative writer that wouldn t make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window says Collins He was perfect Brooks started writing in September 2003 The first six months were miserable Brooks says I d never been hated on a mass scale before 7 One column written by Brooks in The New York Times dismissed the conviction of Scooter Libby as being a farce and having no significance 10 was derided by political blogger Andrew Sullivan 11 In 2004 Brooks book On Paradise Drive How We Live Now And Always Have in the Future Tense was published as a sequel to his 2000 best seller Bobos in Paradise but it was not as well received as its predecessor Brooks is also the volume editor of The Best American Essays publication date October 2 2012 and authored The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love Character and Achievement 12 The book was excerpted in The New Yorker in January 2011 13 and received mixed reviews upon its full publication in March of that year 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 It sold well and reached 3 on the Publishers Weekly best sellers list for non fiction in April 2011 28 Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006 29 In 2013 he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility 30 In 2012 Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees 31 He also serves on the board of advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics 32 In 2019 Brooks gave a TED talk in Vancouver entitled The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters And a Better Way to Live TED curator Chris Anderson selected it as one of his favourite talks of 2019 33 Political ideology Edit source source source source source source source Brooks on PBS Newshour discussing the US presidential election in 2016 Ideologically Brooks has been described as a moderate 34 a centrist 35 a conservative 36 37 38 39 40 41 and a moderate conservative 42 43 Brooks has described himself as a moderate 44 and said in a 2017 interview that one of his callings is to represent a certain moderate Republican Whig political philosophy 45 In December 2021 he wrote that he placed himself on the rightward edge of the leftward tendency in the more promising soil of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party 46 Ottawa Citizen conservative commentator David Warren has identified Brooks as a sophisticated pundit one of those Republicans who want to engage with the liberal agenda 47 When asked what he thinks of charges that he s not a real conservative or squishy Brooks has said that if you define conservative by support for the Republican candidate or the belief that tax cuts are the correct answer to all problems I guess I don t fit that agenda But I do think that I m part of a long standing conservative tradition that has to do with Edmund Burke and Alexander Hamilton 48 In fact Brooks read Burke s work while he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and completely despised it but gradually over the next five to seven years came to agree with him Brooks claims that my visceral hatred was because he touched something I didn t like or know about myself 49 In September 2012 Brooks talked about being criticized from the conservative side saying If it s from a loon I don t mind it I get a kick out of it If it s Michelle Malkin attacking I don t mind it With respect to whether he was the liberals favorite conservative Brooks said he didn t care stating I don t mind liberals praising me but when it s the really partisan liberals you get an avalanche of love it s like uhhh I gotta rethink this 48 Brooks describes himself as beginning as a liberal before as he put it coming to my senses He recounts that a turning point in his thinking came while he was still an undergraduate when he was selected to present the socialist point of view during a televised debate with Nobel laureate free market economist Milton Friedman 5 As Brooks describes it It was essentially me making a point and he making a two sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point That didn t immediately turn me into a conservative but 50 On August 10 2006 Brooks wrote a column for The New York Times titled Party No 3 The column imagined a moderate McCain Lieberman Party in opposition to both major parties which he perceived as both polarized and beholden to special interests 51 In a March 2007 article published in The New York Times titled No U Turns 52 Brooks explained that the Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal government conservative principles that had arisen during the Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan eras He claims that these core concepts had served their purposes and should no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win elections Alex Pareene commented that Brooks has been trying for so long to imagine a sensible Republican Party into existence that he can t still think it s going to happen soon 53 Iraq war Edit Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq Brooks argued for American military intervention echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators 54 55 In 2005 Brooks wrote what columnist Jonathan Chait described as a witheringly condescending column portraying Senator Harry Reid as an unhinged conspiracy theorist because he accused the George W Bush administration of falsifying its Iraq intelligence 56 57 By 2008 five years into the war Brooks maintained that the decision to go to war was correct but that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had botched U S war efforts 58 In 2015 Brooks wrote that f rom the current vantage point the decision to go to war was a clear misjudgment made in 2003 by President George W Bush and the majority of Americans who supported the war including Brooks himself 59 Brooks wrote many of us thought that by taking down Saddam Hussein we could end another evil empire and gradually open up human development in Iraq and the Arab world Has that happened In 2004 I would have said yes In 2006 I would have said no In 2015 I say yes and no but mostly no 59 Citing the Robb Silberman report Brooks rejected as a fable the idea that intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was all cooked by political pressure that there was a big political conspiracy to lie us into war 59 Instead Brooks viewed the war as a product of faulty intelligence writing that t he Iraq war error reminds us of the need for epistemological modesty 59 Presidents elections and candidates Edit Brooks was long a supporter of John McCain however he disliked McCain s 2008 running mate Sarah Palin calling her a cancer on the Republican Party and citing her as the reason he voted for Obama in the 2008 presidential election 60 61 He has referred to Palin as a joke unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination 62 But he later admitted during a C SPAN interview that he had gone too far in his previous cancer comments about Palin which he regretted and simply stated he was not a fan of her values 63 Brooks has frequently expressed admiration for President Barack Obama In an August 2009 profile of Brooks The New Republic describes his first encounter with Obama in the spring of 2005 Usually when I talk to senators while they may know a policy area better than me they generally don t know political philosophy better than me I got the sense he knew both better than me I remember distinctly an image of we were sitting on his couches and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant and I m thinking a he s going to be president and b he ll be a very good president 64 Brooks appreciates that Obama thinks like a writer explaining He s a very writerly personality a little aloof exasperated He s calm He s not addicted to people 49 Two days after Obama s second autobiography The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores Brooks published a column in The New York Times titled Run Barack Run urging the Chicago politician to run for president 65 However in December 2011 during a C SPAN interview Brooks expressed a more tempered opinion of Obama s presidency giving Obama only a B and saying that Obama s chances of re election would be less than 50 50 if elections were held at that time 66 He stated I don t think he s integrated himself with people in Washington as much as he should have 49 However in a February 2016 New York Times op ed Brooks admitted that he missed Obama during the 2016 primary season admiring the president s integrity and humanity among other characteristics 67 In regard to the 2016 election Brooks spoke in support of Hillary Clinton applauding her ability to be competent and normal in comparison to her Republican counterpart Donald Trump 68 69 In addition Brooks noted that he believed Clinton would eventually be victorious in the election as he foresaw that the general American public would become sick of Trump 68 69 When discussing the political emergence of Trump Brooks has been strong in his critiques of the candidate most notably by authoring a New York Times op ed he titled No Not Trump Not Ever In this piece Brooks attacked Trump by arguing he is epically unprepared to be president and by pointing out Trump s steady obliviousness to accuracy 70 On the August 9 2019 episode of the PBS NewsHour Brooks suggested Trump may be a sociopath 71 Israel Edit Brooks has expressed admiration for Israel and has visited almost every year since 1991 He supported Israel during the 2014 Gaza War 72 In writing for The New York Times in January 2010 Brooks described Israel as an astonishing success story 73 He wrote that Jews are a famously accomplished group who because they were forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages have been living off their wits ever since 73 In Brooks view Israel s technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world 73 74 Social views EditBrooks opposes what he sees as self destructive behavior such as the prevalence of teenage sex and divorce His view is that sex is more explicit everywhere barring real life As the entertainment media have become more sex saturated American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious by waiting longer to have sex and having fewer partners In 2007 Brooks stated that he sees the culture war as nearly over because today s young people seem happy with the frankness of the left and the wholesomeness of the right As a result he was optimistic about the United States social stability which he considered to be in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair 75 As early as 2003 Brooks wrote favorably of same sex marriage pointing out that marriage is a traditional conservative value Rather than opposing it he wrote We should insist on gay marriage We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity It s going to be up to conservatives to make the important moral case for marriage including gay marriage 76 In 2015 Brooks issued his commentary on poverty reform in the United States His op ed in The New York Times titled The Nature of Poverty specifically followed the social uproar caused by the death of Freddie Gray and concluded that federal spending is not the issue impeding the progress of poverty reforms but rather that the impediments to upward mobility are matters of social psychology 77 When discussing Gray in particular Brooks claimed that Gray as a young man was not on the path to upward mobility 77 In 2020 Brooks wrote in The Atlantic under the headline The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake that recent signs suggest at least the possibility that a new family paradigm is emerging suggesting that in the place of the collapsed nuclear one the extended family emerges with multigenerational living arrangements that stretch even across kinship lines 78 Brooks had already started in 2017 a project called Weave in order as he described it 78 to support and draw attention to people and organizations around the country who are building community and to repair America s social fabric which is badly frayed by distrust division and exclusion 79 Brooks also takes a moderate position on abortion which he thinks should be legal but with parental consent for minors during the first four or five months and illegal afterward except in extremely rare circumstances 80 He has expressed opposition to the legalization of marijuana stating that use of the drug causes immoral behavior Brooks relates that he smoked it in his youth but quit after a humiliating incident Brooks smoked marijuana during lunch hour at school and felt embarrassed during a class presentation that afternoon in which he says he was incapable of intelligible speech 81 Criticisms EditThis section may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the talk page August 2020 Critics have claimed that Brooks writings on sociology promote stereotypes and present false claims as factual In 2004 Sasha Issenberg writing for Philadelphia magazine fact checked Bobos in Paradise arguing that many of its comments about middle America were misleading or the exact reverse of the truth 82 He reported Brooks as insisting that the book was not intended to be factual but to report his impressions of what he believed an area to be like He laughed The book was partially tongue in cheek I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable He accused me of being too pedantic of taking all of this too literally of taking a joke and distorting it That s totally unethical he said Brooks later said the article made him feel that I suck I can t remember what I said but my mother told me I was extremely stupid 7 In 2015 an opinion piece by David Zweig published in Salon claimed that Brooks had gotten nearly every detail wrong about a poll of high school students 83 Michael Kinsley argued that Brooks was guilty of fearless generalizing Brooks does not let the sociology get in the way of the shtick and he wields a mean shoehorn when he needs the theory to fit the joke 84 Writing for Gawker which consistently criticized Brooks work opinion writer Tom Scocca argued that Brooks does not use facts and statistics to support his policy positions noting possibly that is because he perceives facts and statistics as an opportunity for dishonest people to work mischief 85 Furthermore Annie Lowrey in writing for the New York magazine criticized Brooks statistical methods when arguing his stance on political reform claiming he used some very tricksy misleading math 86 Additionally Sean Illing of Slate criticized the same article from Brooks claiming he argued his point by framing his sources arguments out of context and routinely making bold half right assumptions regarding the controversial issue of poverty reform 87 In 2016 James Taranto criticized 88 Brooks analysis 89 of the U S Supreme Court case Dretke v Haley 90 arguing that Brooks s treatment of this case is either deliberately deceptive or recklessly ignorant 88 Law professor Ann Althouse also argued that Brooks distorts rather grotesquely the case in question clarification needed 91 Brooks was previously criticized by Lyle Denniston with regard to another case arguing that he scrambled the actual significance of what the Supreme Court has done 92 In 2018 Brooks wrote an article in The New York Times about the generation gap between older and younger Democrats in which he attributed young Democrats radicalism to the cultural Marxism that is now the lingua franca in the elite academy 93 Brooks was criticized by journalist Ari Paul writing for progressive media watchdog Fairness amp Accuracy in Reporting FAIR who claimed that Brooks rebrands cultural Marxism as mere political correctness giving the Nazi inspired phrase legitimacy for the American right It is dropped in or quoted in other stories some of them lighthearted like the fashion cues of the alt right without describing how fringe this notion is It s akin to letting conspiracy theories about chem trails or vaccines get unearned space in mainstream press 94 Ari Paul and Spencer Sunshine an associate fellow at the Political Research Associates argued that failure to highlight the nature of the Cultural Marxist conspiracy theory has bitter consequences It is legitimizing the use of that framework and therefore it s coded antisemitism 94 Legacy EditSidney Awards Edit In 2004 Brooks created an award to honor the best political and cultural journalism of the year Named for philosopher Sidney Hook and originally called The Hookies the honor was renamed The Sidney Awards in 2005 The awards are presented each December 95 non primary source needed Personal life EditBrooks met Jane Hughes his first wife while both attended the University of Chicago She converted to Judaism 96 and changed her given name to Sarah 97 they divorced in November 2013 98 99 Their eldest son served in the Israel Defense Forces as Brooks shared in a September 2014 interview for Israeli newspaper Haaretz 100 Brooks converted to Christianity over a period between 2013 and 2014 101 Brooks married Anne Snyder in 2017 they met while he wrote The Road to Character and she was his research assistant 102 Select bibliography EditEditor Backward and Upward The New Conservative Writing Vintage 1996 0 6797 6654 5 Bobos in Paradise The New Upper Class and How They Got There 2000 ISBN 0 684 85377 9 On Paradise Drive How We Live Now And Always Have in the Future Tense 2004 ISBN 0 7432 2738 7 The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love Character and Achievement 2011 ISBN 978 1 4000 6760 2 The Road to Character Random House 2015 ISBN 978 0 8129 9325 7 The Second Mountain The Quest for a Moral Life Random House 2019 ISBN 978 0 8 1299 3264See also EditCo commentator on NPR E J Dionne Co commentator on the PBS Newshour Jonathan CapehartReferences Edit a b c d e David Brooks Biography PBS NewsHour Archived from the original on December 20 2011 Eberstadt Mary ed Why I turned right leading baby boom conservatives chronicle their political journeys Simon and Schuster 2007 NY Times s David Brooks GOP under Trump is harming every cause it claims to serve The Hill December 8 2017 a b Columnist Biography David Brooks The New York Times a b Felsenthal Carol May 18 2015 David Brooks Doesn t Pay Attention to Your Criticism Chicago Retrieved February 14 2016 Brooks David April 16 2009 A Loud and Promised Land The New York Times As an American Jew I was taught to go all gooey eyed at the thought of Israel a b c d e f Beam Christopher July 4 2010 A Reasonable Man New York magazine Retrieved November 14 2014 His wife is devoutly Jewish she converted after they married and recently changed her name from Jane Hughes to the more biblical sounding Sarah Brooks but he rarely attends synagogue University of Chicago Maroon April 5 1983 Yoe Mary Ruth February 2004 Everybody s a Critic University of Chicago Magazine Chicago Illinois University of Chicago Brooks David July 4 2007 Ending the Farce The New York Times New York City Retrieved March 11 2011 Sullivan Andrew July 3 2007 What Rule of Law The Atlantic Monthly Boston Massachusetts Emerson Collective Retrieved March 11 2011 The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love Character and Achievement randomhouse com Brooks David January 17 2011 Social Animal How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life The New Yorker New York City Conde Nast Retrieved March 13 2011 Bell Douglas March 11 2011 The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love Character and Achievement by David Brooks The Globe and Mail Toronto Ontario Canada The Woodbridge Company Retrieved August 8 2017 Nagel Thomas March 11 2011 David Brooks s Theory of Human Nature The New York Times New York City Retrieved August 8 2017 Myers PZ March 11 2011 David Brooks dream world for the trust fund set Salon com San Francisco California Salon Media Group Archived from the original on March 8 2011 Retrieved March 16 2011 Wilkinson Will March 10 2011 The Social Animal by David Brooks A Scornful Review Forbes New York City Retrieved March 16 2011 Nonfiction Book Review The Social Animal A Story of Love Character and Achievement by David Brooks Publishers Weekly New York City PWxyz LLC January 31 2011 Retrieved August 8 2017 Atlas James February 27 2011 Brooks Explores Human Nature in The Social Animal Newsweek Retrieved August 8 2017 Kirkus Reviews January 15 2011 Book Review The Social Animal Retrieved August 8 2017 a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a Cite magazine requires magazine help Gilman Susan J March 4 2011 David Brooks Smart Messy Theory Of Everything NPR Retrieved August 8 2017 Rogers Ben May 22 2011 The Social Animal by David Brooks review The Guardian London England Retrieved August 8 2017 Crouch Andy March 8 2011 Review The Social Animal Christianity Today Carol Steam Illinois Christianity Today International Retrieved August 8 2017 Book review The Social Animal by David Brooks The Scotsman Edinburgh Scotland JPIMedia June 27 2011 Retrieved August 8 2017 Beckett Andy May 1 2011 The Social Animal by David Brooks review The Guardian London England Retrieved August 8 2017 Bloom Paul March 11 2011 The Social Animal by David Brooks examines emotion vs reason The Washington Post Washington D C Nash Holdings Retrieved August 8 2017 Wolfe Alan March 2 2011 Studies Show The New Republic Retrieved August 8 2017 Publishers Weekly Best sellers The Maui News April 3 2011 Retrieved April 4 2011 Brooks David February 4 2007 Children of Polarization The New York Times Harrington Rebecca December 19 2012 David Brooks To Teach Humility At Yale The Huffington Post New York City Huffington Post Media Group Wood Becky June 15 2012 Five new members elected to University of Chicago Board of Trustees uChicago News Retrieved February 13 2016 Board of Advisors The University of Chicago Institute of Politics Retrieved February 13 2016 The most popular talks of 2019 TED Talks Vespa Matt June 20 2017 NYT Brooks I m Worried We re Getting Ahead Of Ourselves With This Russian Collusion Stuff Townhall com Chang Clio November 29 2016 The center of American politics will always have David Brooks The New Republic Sorry David Brooks but we can t blame Trump s ascendance on anti politics it s Salon com San Francisco California Salon Media Group February 29 2016 David Brooks Biography In Context Contemporary Authors Online Detroit Michigan Gale 2012 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help Scarry Eddie March 18 2016 NYT columnist David Brooks admits he s not socially intermingled with Trump supporters Washington Examiner Washington D C MediaDC The rise of collectivist conservatives The Week New York City Dennis Publishing May 19 2009 Heer Jeet June 21 2017 Anti Anti Trumpism Is the Glue Holding Together the Republican Party The New Republic Bennett Kate April 16 2015 David Brooks Muse Politico Arlington Virginia Capitol News Company Black Eric May 17 2017 Chaos president indeed and David Brooks has some ideas about why MinnPost Gauger Jeff August 5 2017 New York columnist riffs on middle age from Shreveport Shreveport Times Shreveport Louisiana Gannett A hesitant radical in the age of Trump David Brooks and the search for moderation New Statesman Fisher Marc January 7 2016 The Evolution of David Brooks Moment Magazine Brooks David December 8 2021 What Happened to American Conservatism The Atlantic Retrieved May 4 2022 Warren David July 17 2009 A War Between Two World Views Real Clear Politics a b Kurtz Howard September 30 2012 David Brooks Riling Up the Right The Daily Beast New York City IAC a b c Weiland Noah October 4 2013 Uncommon Interview David Brooks A B 83 The Chicago Maroon Retrieved February 13 2016 Yoe Mary Ruth February 2004 Everybody s a critic University of Chicago Magazine 96 3 Retrieved September 11 2009 Brooks David August 10 2006 Party No 3 The New York Times New York City p A23 Retrieved October 13 2017 Brooks David March 3 2007 No U Turns The New York Times New York City Retrieved September 13 2008 Pareene Alex April 22 2014 Blow up the Times Op Ed page and start again Salon San Francisco California Salon Media Group Retrieved August 15 2015 Brooks David March 9 2003 The Certainty Crisis The Weekly Standard Washington D C Clarity Media Group Archived from the original on April 8 2003 Retrieved February 17 2015 Brooks David April 28 2003 The Collapse of the Dream Palaces The Weekly Standard Washington D C Clarity Media Group Retrieved February 17 2015 Brooks David November 3 2005 The Harry da Reid Code The New York Times New York City Chait Jonathan May 18 2008 Was the Iraq War a Crime or a Mistake Yes New York New York City New York Media Mitchell Greg March 25 2008 David Brooks No Apologies 5 Years Later The Huffington Post New York City a b c d Brooks David May 19 2015 Learning From Mistakes The New York Times New York City Shea Danny October 8 2008 David Brooks Sarah Palin Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party The Huffington Post New York City Huffington Post Media Group Retrieved February 16 2009 Stephens Bret Brooks David January 11 2023 Opinion The Party s Over for Us Where Do We Go Now The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 17 2023 David Brooks Sarah Palin Is A Joke TPMTv on YouTube November 15 2009 In Depth with David Brooks C SPAN December 4 2011 Retrieved April 25 2015 Host Does David regret his comment about Sarah Palin and her cancer on the Republican party Brooks Yeah I do I think it was some lunch affair for some magazine and I was just mouthing off and so I I m not a fan of hers but that s a little strong Sherman Gabriel August 31 2009 The Courtship The story behind the Obama Brooks bromance The New Republic Retrieved September 11 2009 Brooks David October 19 2006 Run Barack Run The New York Times New York City Retrieved September 11 2009 In Depth with David Brooks C SPAN December 4 2011 Retrieved April 25 2015 Host So how is the president doing Brooks You know I think I m a little disappointed that he didn t do Simpson Bowles I was a little disappointed in the way the debt has run up and I don t blame him for running up the debt in the recession but I think we needed an exit strategy to get out of it I think he could have done a little more to promote growth though I think given all the bad things it was going to be tough no matter who was president no matter who did anything it was going to be tough to promote growth So I don t particularly blame him for that I think he s conducted himself in pretty much an honest way He s had very little corruption I still have great personal admiration for him I m more to his right but I give him no worse than a B I think he s made some mistakes but I wouldn t say he s been a bad president Brooks David February 9 2016 I Miss Barack Obama The New York Times New York City a b Schwartz Ian June 11 2016 David Brooks People Will Be Sick Of Trump And Vote For Hillary She Will be Competent And Normal Real Clear Politics Retrieved September 20 2016 a b PBS NewsHour Shields and Brooks on anticlimactic Clinton victory Trump s moral chasm Online video clip YouTube YouTube June 10 2016 Web September 20 2016 Brooks David March 18 2016 No Not Trump Not Ever The New York Times New York City Retrieved September 20 2016 David 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