David Brooks

David Brooks has been a columnist with The New York Times since 2003. He is the author of 鈥淭he Road to Character鈥� and, most recently, 鈥淭he Second Mountain.鈥�

Democratic candidate for president, former Vice ...

Brooks: Biden is stronger than you think

January 24, 2020 at 6:15 p.m.

Biden Is Stronger Than You Think

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during ...

Brooks: The Bernie Sanders fallacy

January 17, 2020 at 4:32 p.m.

Each of these stories takes a genuine tension in society and blows it up into an all-explaining cartoon in which one part of America is trying to destroy the other...

The U.S. Capitol is reflected in the Capitol Reflecting Pool at sunrise in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 2013.

Brooks: A ridiculously optimistic history of the next decade

January 5, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump鈥檚 Republican Party.

Protestors react as police fire tear ...

David Brooks: The global revolt against populism

November 22, 2019 at 3:10 p.m.

The Revolt Against Populism

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Brooks: The Bernie Sanders fallacy

Brooks: A ridiculously optimistic history of the next decade

David Brooks: The global revolt against populism