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Atlantic writer, Yale faculty. Author of The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and Bobos in Paradise, How to Know a Person

Washington, DC theatlantic.com/author/david-b… Joined July 2012

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David Brooks @DavidBrooks224 Oct 25

Abdul El Sayed: Neocon!
From a HuffPost piece he wrote on US involvement in the Middle East during the Arab spring:
“Democracy in the Arab world is a foregone conclusion; it's just a matter of when. And as Henry A. Kissinger, a former US Secretary of State, said, "whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately."

David Brooks @DavidBrooks224 Oct 4

Jonathan Haidt on what we’ve learned about human nature over the past40 years. youtu.be/RFTfANuLBF4

www.youtube.com Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the ‘Neutron Bomb for Education’ Long before he became famous as the author of The Anxious Generatio...

David Brooks @DavidBrooks224 Oct 1

Another of my Yale talks just dropped. It’s filled with wisdom (that I learned from others)Y... youtu.be/fcwvMWWcvtQ?si… via @YouTube

www.youtube.com The Battle for America's Soul | Yale Conversations with David Brooks | Yale University "In previous eras of technological advance, the humanists rose up t...

David Brooks @DavidBrooks224 Sep 27

Ayad Akhtar’s new novel is a masterpiece. Listen to him talk about it. theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/…

www.theatlantic.com What Is the Meaning of Mystical Experience? The novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar tries to do justice to feelings of radiance without religious language.

David Brooks @DavidBrooks224 Sep 20

Should you feel small staring into the vastness of space? What’s the best space movie ever? These questions are answered on the new episode of the podcast The Permanent Questions. Out now!