DAVID BROOKS
DAVID BROOKS: Scandals show massive failure of self-restraint
Government, Clinton Rossiter once wrote, is something like fire: “Under control, it is the most useful of servants; out of control, it is a ravaging tyrant.”
By David Brooks , May 19, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: College of tomorrow starts taking shape today 
Are universities mostly sorting devices to separate smart and hard-working high school students from their less-able fellows so that employers can more easily identify them? Are universities factories for the dissemination of job skills?
By David Brooks , April 07, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: Getting art of predictions down to a science
If I were President Barack Obama or John Kerry, I’d want the Penn/Berkeley predictions on my desk. The intelligence communities may hate it.
By David Brooks , March 24, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: Orthodox surge promises to reshape America
In Midwood, Brooklyn, there’s a luxury kosher grocery store called Pomegranate serving the modern Orthodox and Hasidic communities. It looks like a really nice Whole Foods. There’s a wide selection of kosher cheeses from Italy and France, wasabi herring, gluten-free ritual foods and nicely toned wood flooring.
By David Brooks , March 10, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: The scholar who tied his hair to a ceiling beam
Westerners tend to define learning cognitively while Asians tend to define it morally. Westerners tend to see learning as something people do in order to understand and master the external world. Asians tend to see learning as an arduous process they undertake in order to cultivate virtues inside the self.
By David Brooks , March 02, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: Partisan buses careen toward yet another cliff
Politicians in both parties are secretly discovering that they love sequestration. It allows them to do the dance moves they enjoy the most.
By David Brooks , February 23, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: Solving immigration is easy, not hard
The forlorn pundit doesn’t even have to make the humanitarian case that immigration reform would be a great victory for human dignity. The cold economic case by itself is so strong.
By David Brooks , February 01, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: GOP needs a good-government wing
In trying to reinvent itself, the Republican party seems to have spent no time talking to people who didn’t already vote for its candidates.
By David Brooks , January 29, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: Hagel’s trumpet sounds America’s great retreat
Chuck Hagel has been nominated to supervise the beginning of a generation-long process of defense cutbacks. All the charges about Hagel’s views on Israel or Iran are secondary. The real question is, how will Hagel supervise the beginning of America’s military decline?
By David Brooks , January 09, 2013
DAVID BROOKS: A roundup of studies about … everything
Elections come and go, but social science marches on. Here are some recent research findings that struck my fancy.
By David Brooks , December 11, 2012
David Brooks, The New York Times, column: ‘Big government = bad’ philosophy fails again
Let’s just look at one segment, Asian-Americans. Many of these people are leading the lives Republicans celebrate. They are, disproportionately, entrepreneurial, industrious and family-oriented. But on Tuesday, Asian-Americans rejected the Republican Party by 3 to 1. They don’t relate to the Republican equation that more government equals less work.
By David Brooks , November 10, 2012
DAVID BROOKS: Don’t like Obamacare? Then vote it out
If Americans want to replace this thing, they should do it themselves.
By David Brooks , July 03, 2012
Bill Penning, Thief River Falls, letter: Vote to support GOP’s core beliefs
I call on voters to support the Republican Party because that party is most likely to stand for states’ rights, a free market economy, individual initiative, sensible environmental conservation, proper use of military force and opposition to cap-and-trade.
By Bill Penning , June 20, 2011
DAVID BROOKS: Shooting’s real issue: Untreated mental illness
If the evidence continues as it has, the obvious questions are these: How can we more aggressively treat mentally ill people who are becoming increasingly disruptive?
By David Brooks , January 12, 2011
COLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS: Health care law’s vital signs worsen
Several threats have emerged — some of them scarcely discussed before passage — that together or alone could seriously endanger the new health care system.
By David Brooks , January 08, 2011
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