Background
David Brooks was born on April 21, 1961, in Tucson, Ontario, Canada. His father taught English literature at New York University.
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David graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.
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(Profiles two formerly mutually exclusive groups of people...)
Profiles two formerly mutually exclusive groups of people - the business-driven bourgeois and the intellectually driven artistic bohemians - noting how in the last decade they have merged to create a single social ethos.
https://www.amazon.com/Bobos-Paradise-Upper-Class-There-dp-0684853779/dp/0684853779/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(A social critique of middle-class America notes the perva...)
A social critique of middle-class America notes the pervasiveness of barbecue grills, supermoms, suburban restaurant chains, and other elements, identifying the motivations that prompt many people to strive for fantasy-based goals.
https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Drive-Always-Future-Tense-dp-0743227387/dp/0743227387/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual ad...)
The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. Impossible to put down, it is an essential book for our time, one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Animal-Sources-Character-Achievement/dp/140006760X/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(On Paradise Drive delves deeper into the American charact...)
On Paradise Drive delves deeper into the American character, wittily dissecting the nation’s ongoing search for personal utopia - the kind that can be achieved through hard work, profit, masterful living, and maybe a really great country house. Shrewd and sharp, yet genial and reasoned, The Paradise Suite confirms Brooks as a true public intellectual and one of the most insightful social commentators of his age.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451643152/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and insp...)
Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character.
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Character-David-Brooks/dp/081299325X/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yours...)
Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy - who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Mountain-David-Brooks/dp/0812993268/?tag=2022091-20
2019
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David Brooks was born on April 21, 1961, in Tucson, Ontario, Canada. His father taught English literature at New York University.
David graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.
David began his media career as a police reporter for the City News Bureau in Chicago before he joined the Washington Times in 1984, where he contributed editorials and film reviews. In 1986 he joined The Wall Street Journal, initially editing the paper’s book reviews and briefly serving as a film critic. He then worked from the paper’s Brussels office as an editor and foreign correspondent. By the end of his tenure at the Journal in 1994, he had become an editor of the paper’s opinion page. He became a senior editor at The Weekly Standard magazine at its inception in 1995. He was also a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine. In 2003 Brooks began writing an op-ed column for The New York Times. The following year he became a commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (later called PBS NewsHour).
In addition to his news reporting and commentary, Brooks wrote articles for several major magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly. He was the editor of the anthology Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (1996) and the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000), On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004), The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011), The Road to Character (2015), and The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (2019).
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. In 2013, he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility.
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.
(On Paradise Drive delves deeper into the American charact...)
2011(A social critique of middle-class America notes the perva...)
2004(Profiles two formerly mutually exclusive groups of people...)
2000(Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yours...)
2019(Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and insp...)
2015(The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual ad...)
2011Brooks is widely regarded as a moderate conservative. Although he agrees with neoconservatives that the United States should use its military might to advance its interests abroad, he supports limited government regulation of the economy and even champions some liberal causes, such as same-sex marriage.
Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive behavior, such as the prevalence of teenage sex and divorce. He 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. On the legalization of drugs, he has expressed opposition to the liberalization of marijuana, stating that use of the drug causes immoral behavior.
Brooks is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Brooks met his first wife, Sarah Hughes, while both were students at the University of Chicago. In November 2013, they divorced. In 2017, Brooks married writer Anne Snyder.