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A.">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist">Columnist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pundit_(expert)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pundit (expert)">pundit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable work</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> Opinions writer and editor (1986–1994) <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> columnist (since 2003) <a href="/wiki/PBS_NewsHour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS NewsHour">PBS NewsHour</a> contributor (since 2004)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Sarah (née Jane Hughes; <abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1986; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2013)</li><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Anne Snyder</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2017)</div></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)<a href="#cite_note-pbsbio-1">[1]</a> is a Canadian-born American book author and political and cultural commentator. Self-described as an ideologic moderate, others have characterised his regular contributions to the <a href="/wiki/PBS_NewsHour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS NewsHour">PBS NewsHour</a>, as <a href="/wiki/Opinion_columnist" class="mw-redirect" title="Opinion columnist">opinion columnist</a> for <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>]<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] and other work as being centrist, conservative, or moderate conservative. In addition to his <a href="/wiki/Long-form_journalism" title="Long-form journalism">shorter form</a> writing, Brooks has authored 6 non-fiction books since 2000, two appearing from <a href="/wiki/Simon_and_Schuster" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon and Schuster">Simon and Schuster</a>, and four from <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House</a>, the latter including <a href="/wiki/The_Social_Animal_(Brooks_book)" title="The Social Animal (Brooks book)"> The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement</a> (2011), and <a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Character" title="The Road to Character">The Road to Character</a> (2015). Beginning as a police reporter in <a href="/wiki/City_News_Bureau_of_Chicago" title="City News Bureau of Chicago">Chicago</a> and as an intern at <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley" class="mw-redirect" title="William F. Buckley">William F. Buckley</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a>, Brooks rose to his positions at The Times, <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a>, and <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a><a href="#cite_note-pbsbio-1">[1]</a> after a long series of other journalistic positions (film critic for <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Times" title="The Washington Times">The Washington Times</a>, reporter and <a href="/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed">op-ed</a> editor at <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a>,<a href="#cite_note-nytbio-4">[4]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">full citation needed</a>] senior editor at <a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a>, and contributing editor at <a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly" class="mw-redirect" title="The Atlantic Monthly">The Atlantic Monthly</a>).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">when?</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>]</div> Brooks was born in Toronto, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, where his father was working on a <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>. He spent his early years in the <a href="/wiki/Stuyvesant_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Stuyvesant Town">Stuyvesant Town</a> housing development in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> with his brother, Daniel. His father taught English literature at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>, while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>. Brooks was raised Jewish but rarely attended synagogue in his later adult life.<a href="#cite_note-chicagomag_interview-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-nytimes1-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Beam_2010-7">[7]</a> As a young child, Brooks attended the <a href="/wiki/Grace_Church_School" title="Grace Church School">Grace Church School</a>, an independent <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopal</a> primary school in the East Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Main_Line" title="Philadelphia Main Line">Philadelphia Main Line</a>, the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/Radnor_High_School" title="Radnor High School">Radnor High School</a> in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> with a degree in history.<a href="#cite_note-pbsbio-1">[1]</a> His senior thesis was on popular science writer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Ardrey" title="Robert Ardrey">Robert Ardrey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Beam_2010-7">[7]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr.">William F. Buckley Jr.</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">full citation needed</a>] 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.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career">edit</a>]</div> Upon graduation, Brooks became a police reporter for the <a href="/wiki/City_News_Bureau_of_Chicago" title="City News Bureau of Chicago">City News Bureau of Chicago</a>, a wire service owned jointly by the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sun_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago Sun Times">Chicago Sun Times</a>.<a href="#cite_note-pbsbio-1">[1]</a> He says that his experience on Chicago's crime beat had a conservatizing influence on him.<a href="#cite_note-Beam_2010-7">[7]</a> In 1984, mindful of the offer he had received from Buckley, Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern at Buckley's <a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a>. According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to the affluent lifestyle that Brooks had previously mocked, including yachting expeditions, <a href="/wiki/Bach" class="mw-redirect" title="Bach">Bach</a> concerts, dinners at Buckley's <a href="/wiki/Park_Avenue" title="Park Avenue">Park Avenue</a> apartment and villa in <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford, Connecticut</a>, and a constant stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities. <blockquote>Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience. National Review was a Catholic magazine, and Brooks is not Catholic. <a href="/wiki/Sam_Tanenhaus" title="Sam Tanenhaus">Sam Tanenhaus</a> later reported in <a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-Beam_2010-7">[7]</a></blockquote> After his internship with Buckley ended, Brooks spent some time at the conservative <a href="/wiki/Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution">Hoover Institution</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> and wrote movie reviews for <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Times" title="The Washington Times">The Washington Times</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg/220px-PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg/330px-PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg/440px-PBS-Rehearsal-David_Brooks.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4848" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Brooks preparing for <a href="/wiki/PBS_Newshour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS Newshour">PBS Newshour</a> in 2012</figcaption></figure> In 1986, Brooks was hired by <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, where he covered Russia (making numerous trips to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>); the Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. On his return, Brooks joined the <a href="/wiki/Neo-conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-conservative">neo-conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Weekly_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Weekly Standard">Weekly Standard</a> when it was launched in 1994. Two years later, he edited an anthology, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing.<a href="#cite_note-pbsbio-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-nytbio-4">[4]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 210px; clear: left; float:left;margin:0 1.5em 1.5em 0;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?157392-1/bobos-paradise">Booknotes interview with Brooks on Bobos, July 30, 2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table> In 2000, Brooks published a book of cultural commentary titled <a href="/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise" title="Bobos in Paradise">Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There</a> to considerable acclaim. The book, a <a href="/wiki/Paean" title="Paean">paean</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/New_York_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Magazine">New York Magazine</a> written by Christopher Beam, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> editorial-page editor <a href="/wiki/Gail_Collins" title="Gail Collins">Gail Collins</a> called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch. <blockquote>Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist <a href="/wiki/William_Safire" title="William Safire">William Safire</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-Beam_2010-7">[7]</a></blockquote>One column written by Brooks in The New York Times, which dismissed the conviction of <a href="/wiki/Scooter_Libby" title="Scooter Libby">Scooter Libby</a> as being "a farce" and having "no significance",<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> was derided by political blogger <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan" title="Andrew Sullivan">Andrew Sullivan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> In 2004, Brooks' book <a href="/wiki/On_Paradise_Drive:_How_We_Live_Now_(And_Always_Have)_in_the_Future_Tense" class="mw-redirect" title="On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense">On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/The_Social_Animal_(David_Brooks_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Social Animal (David Brooks book)">The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-socialanimal-12">[12]</a> The book was excerpted in <a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a> in January 2011<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> and received mixed reviews upon its full publication in March of that year.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-Rogers_2011-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-Beckett_2011-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> It sold well and reached #3 on the <a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a> best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011.<a href="#cite_note-maui-28">[28]</a> Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Terry_Sanford_Institute_of_Public_Policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy">Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy</a>, and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> In 2013, he taught a course at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> on philosophical humility.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> In 2012, Brooks was elected to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> Board of Trustees.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> He also serves on the board of advisors for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> Institute of Politics.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In 2019, Brooks gave a <a href="/wiki/TED_(conference)" title="TED (conference)">TED</a> talk in Vancouver entitled 'The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters – And a Better Way to Live'. TED curator <a href="/wiki/Chris_Anderson_(entrepreneur)" title="Chris Anderson (entrepreneur)">Chris Anderson</a> selected it as one of his favourite talks of 2019.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_ideology">Political ideology</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political ideology">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/220px--Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="785" data-mwtitle="Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump’s_primary_sweep,_Clinton’s_‘woman’s_card’.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep,_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm/Shields_and_Brooks_on_Trump%E2%80%99s_primary_sweep%2C_Clinton%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98woman%E2%80%99s_card%E2%80%99.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video><figcaption>Brooks on <a href="/wiki/PBS_Newshour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS Newshour">PBS Newshour</a> on 29 April 2016 discussing the leading candidates for the 2016 US presidential election.</figcaption></figure> Ideologically, Brooks has been described as a moderate,<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> a centrist,<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> a conservative,<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> and a moderate conservative.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Brooks has described himself as "a <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Burkean</a>... [which] is to be a moderate", saying that such was "what I think I’ve become.<a href="#cite_note-NewStatesman201710-43">[43]</a> and said in a 2017 interview that "[one] of [his] callings is to represent a certain moderate <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (U.S.)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a> political philosophy."<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Citizen" title="Ottawa Citizen">Ottawa Citizen</a> conservative commentator David Warren has identified Brooks as a "sophisticated pundit"; one of "those Republicans who want to 'engage with' the liberal agenda".<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> When asked what he thinks of charges that he's "not a real conservative" or "squishy", Brooks has said that "if you define <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> by support for the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a> ... and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a>."<a href="#cite_note-daily_beast-47">[47]</a> In fact, Brooks read Burke's work while he was an undergraduate at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-chicago_maroon-48">[48]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin">Michelle Malkin</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-daily_beast-47">[47]</a> Brooks describes himself as beginning as a <a href="/wiki/Modern_American_liberalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern American liberalism">liberal</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates" title="List of Nobel laureates">Nobel laureate</a> free-market economist <a href="/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a>.<a href="#cite_note-chicagomag_interview-5">[5]</a> 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 ..."<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> On August 10, 2006, Brooks wrote a column for The New York Times titled "Party No. 3". The column imagined a moderate <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">McCain</a>-<a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Lieberman</a> Party in opposition to both <a href="/wiki/Two-party_system" title="Two-party system">major parties</a>, which he perceived as both <a href="/wiki/Polarization_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Polarization (politics)">polarized</a> and beholden to <a href="/wiki/Special_interests" class="mw-redirect" title="Special interests">special interests</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> In a March 2007 article published in The New York Times titled "No U-Turns",<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Brooks explained that the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> must distance itself from the minimal-government conservative principles that had arisen during the <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> eras. He claims that these core concepts had served their purposes and should no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win elections. <a href="/wiki/Alex_Pareene" title="Alex Pareene">Alex Pareene</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-Blow_up_the_Times_Op-Ed_page,_and_start_again!-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iraq_war">Iraq war</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Iraq war">edit</a>]</div> Before the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>, Brooks argued for American military intervention, echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> In 2005, Brooks wrote what columnist <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Chait" title="Jonathan Chait">Jonathan Chait</a> described as "a witheringly condescending" column portraying Senator <a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> as an "unhinged conspiracy theorist because he accused the <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Bush administration">[George W. Bush] administration</a> of falsifying its <a href="/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iraq and weapons of mass destruction">Iraq intelligence</a>."<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> By 2008, five years into the war, Brooks maintained that the decision to go to war was correct, but that Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> had botched U.S. war efforts.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and the majority of Americans who supported the war, including Brooks himself.<a href="#cite_note-LearningFromMistakes-58">[58]</a> Brooks wrote "many of us thought that, by taking down <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-LearningFromMistakes-58">[58]</a> Citing the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Intelligence_Commission" title="Iraq Intelligence Commission">Robb-Silberman report</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-LearningFromMistakes-58">[58]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-LearningFromMistakes-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Presidents_elections_and_candidates">Presidents elections and candidates</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Presidents elections and candidates">edit</a>]</div> Brooks was long a supporter of <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a>; however, he disliked McCain's <a href="/wiki/John_McCain_2008_presidential_campaign" title="John McCain 2008 presidential campaign">2008 running mate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a>, calling her a "cancer" on the Republican Party, and citing her as the reason he voted for Obama in the <a href="/wiki/2008_US_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 US presidential election">2008 presidential election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-palin-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> He has referred to Palin as a "joke," unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> Brooks has frequently expressed admiration for President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>. In an August 2009, profile of Brooks, <a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-chicago_maroon-48">[48]</a> Two days after Obama's second autobiography, <a href="/wiki/The_Audacity_of_Hope" title="The Audacity of Hope">The Audacity of Hope</a>, hit bookstores, Brooks published a column in The New York Times, titled "Run, Barack, Run," urging the Chicago politician to run for president.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> He stated, "I don't think he's integrated himself with people in Washington as much as he should have."<a href="#cite_note-chicago_maroon-48">[48]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> In regard to the 2016 election, Brooks spoke in support of <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, applauding her ability to be "competent" and "normal" in comparison to her Republican counterpart, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-68">[68]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-:0-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-68">[68]</a> When discussing the political emergence of Trump, Brooks strongly critiqued 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."<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> On the August 9, 2019 episode of the <a href="/wiki/PBS_NewsHour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS NewsHour">PBS NewsHour</a>, Brooks suggested Trump may be a <a href="/wiki/Sociopath" class="mw-redirect" title="Sociopath">sociopath</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Israel">edit</a>]</div> Brooks has expressed admiration for <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> and has visited almost every year since 1991. He supported Israel during the <a href="/wiki/2014_Gaza_War" title="2014 Gaza War">2014 Gaza War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Haaretz_interview-71">[71]</a> In writing for The New York Times in January 2010, Brooks described Israel as "an astonishing success story".<a href="#cite_note-tel-72">[72]</a> He wrote that "Jews are a famously accomplished group," who, because they were "forced to give up farming in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> ... have been living off their wits ever since".<a href="#cite_note-tel-72">[72]</a> In Brooks' view, "Israel's technological success is the fruition of the <a href="/wiki/Zionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Zionist">Zionist</a> dream. The country was not founded so stray <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlements" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli settlements">settlers</a> could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in <a href="/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron">Hebron</a>. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world."<a href="#cite_note-tel-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-David_Brooks_Was_Right:_Anti-Semitism_Is_a_Different_Evil-73">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_views">Social views</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Social views">edit</a>]</div> Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive behavior, such as the prevalence of <a href="/wiki/Teenage_sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Teenage sex">teenage sex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Sexual_abstinence" title="Sexual abstinence">abstemious</a>" by "waiting longer to have sex ... [and] having fewer partners". In 2007, Brooks stated that he sees the <a href="/wiki/Culture_war" title="Culture war">culture war</a> 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".<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> As early as 2003, Brooks wrote favorably of <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Freddie Gray">Freddie Gray</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Social_psychology" title="Social psychology">social psychology</a>".<a href="#cite_note-nytpoverty-76">[76]</a> When discussing Gray in particular, Brooks claimed that Gray as a young man was "not on the path to upward mobility".<a href="#cite_note-nytpoverty-76">[76]</a> In 2020, Brooks wrote in <a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-mistake-77">[77]</a> Brooks had already started in 2017 a project called "Weave", in order, as he described it,<a href="#cite_note-mistake-77">[77]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-weave-78">[78]</a> Brooks also takes a moderate position on <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> He has expressed opposition to the legalization of <a href="/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana">marijuana</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reviews">Critical reviews</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Critical reviews">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unbalanced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUE">unbalanced</a> towards certain viewpoints. Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit">improve the article</a> or discuss the issue on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:David_Brooks_(commentator)" title="Talk:David Brooks (commentator)">talk page</a>. (August 2020)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> In reviewing On Paradise Drive (2004), <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kinsley" title="Michael Kinsley">Michael Kinsley</a> described Brooks' "sociological method" as having "four components: fearless generalizing, clever coinage, jokes and shopping lists." Taking umbrage with the first of these, Kinsley state, "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".<a href="#cite_note-Kinsley-81">[81]</a> This followed the 2004 <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia magazine">Philadelphia</a> magazine fact-checking of Bobos in Paradise by <a href="/wiki/Sasha_Issenberg" title="Sasha Issenberg">Sasha Issenberg</a> that concluded many of its comments about <a href="/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)" title="Middle America (United States)">middle America</a> were misleading or untrue.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> Kinsley reported that "Brooks defend[ed] his generalizations as poetic hyperbole".<a href="#cite_note-Kinsley-81">[81]</a> Issenberg likewise noted that Brooks insisted that the book was not intended to be factual but rather to report impressions of what he believed an area to be like: "He laughed" that the book was "'partially tongue-in-cheek'". Issenberg continues, "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." <a href="#cite_note-Beam_2010-7">[7]</a> In 2015, David Zweig expressed the opinion in a <a href="/wiki/Salon_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (website)">Salon</a> piece that Brooks had gotten "nearly every detail" wrong about a poll of high-school students in his recent, <a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Character" title="The Road to Character">The Road to Character</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Zweig150615-83">[83]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles">Articles</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Articles">edit</a>]</div> In March of 2012, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Abrams" title="Dan Abrams">Dan Abrams</a> of <a href="/wiki/ABC_News_(United_States)" title="ABC News (United States)">ABC News</a>, and then Brooks, were criticized by <a href="/wiki/Lyle_Denniston" title="Lyle Denniston">Lyle Denniston</a> with regard to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a>'s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, where alongside the claim that Brooks had "scrambled the actual significance of what the Supreme Court has done", he goes on to state that "[t]here is a link, but it is only indirect, between the Court’s 2010 decision... and the rise of Super PACs" [emphasis added].<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> Writing in response to Brooks 2015 opinion in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, "The New Old Liberalism", <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom_Scoca&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tom Scoca (page does not exist)">Tom Scoca</a> of the now-defunct <a href="/wiki/Gawker_Media" title="Gawker Media">Gawker</a>, after leveling the <a href="/wiki/Ad_hominem_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Ad hominem attack">ad hominem attack</a> that Brooks was "a dumb partisan hack", went on to argue that Brooks possibly "perceived facts and statistics as an opportunity for dishonest people to work mischief", and so did not use them to support his policy positions.<a href="#cite_note-ScocaGawker-85">[85]</a> <a href="/wiki/Annie_Lowrey" title="Annie Lowrey">Annie Lowrey</a>, responding to Brooks' opinion, "The Nature of Poverty", on May 1, 2015, in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a> magazine, criticized Brooks' basis for his argument for political reform, claiming he used "some very tricksy, misleading math".<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sean_Illing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sean Illing (page does not exist)">Sean Illing</a> of <a href="/wiki/Slate_(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)">Slate</a> criticized the same article, claiming Brooks took arguments out of context and routinely made bold "half-right" assumptions regarding the controversial issue of poverty reform.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> In 2016, Brooks' analyzed the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a>'s Dretke v. Haley case,<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> leading <a href="/wiki/James_Taranto" title="James Taranto">James Taranto</a> to the critique that "Brooks's treatment of this case is either deliberately deceptive or recklessly ignorant".<a href="#cite_note-borking-90">[90]</a> In a self-published blog, law professor <a href="/wiki/Ann_Althouse" title="Ann Althouse">Ann Althouse</a> argues that in the piece, Brooks "distorts rather grotesquely" by exaggerating the character of Texas solicitor general <a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Ted Cruz</a> (who brought the case to the high court).<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Cultural_Marxism"_reference">"Cultural Marxism" reference</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: "Cultural Marxism" reference">edit</a>]</div> In 2018, Brooks wrote an opinion for <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Generation_gap" title="Generation gap">generation gap</a> between older and younger Democrats, attributing young Democrats' radicalism to "<a href="/wiki/Cultural_Marxism" class="mw-redirect" title="Cultural Marxism">cultural Marxism</a>... now the lingua franca in the elite academy",<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> for which he was criticized by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_L._Alpers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benjamin L. Alpers (page does not exist)">Ben Alpers</a> of the University of Oklahoma,<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> for mainstreaming a "conspiracy theory"—the history of which he traces in his critique—that dated to the <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazis</a>, and had antisemitic roots.<a href="#cite_note-alpers-94">[94]</a> Ari Paul of <a href="/wiki/Fairness_%26_Accuracy_in_Reporting" title="Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting">FAIR</a> likewise was critical in a review of the expression's connotations, and its separate use by others.<a href="#cite_note-Paul_2019-95">[95]</a> In a self-published blog post providing quotes of quotes of quoted material that make the exact origin of ideas problematic, Brad DeLong argues that Brooks and other's names "are attached to a pejorative which they’d prefer to be uncoupled from the anti-Semitism to which it has been usually attached", but that the offending expression is a toxic one that, as one "enter[ing] national discourse as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory... ought to be avoided on that basis alone...".<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_media">Other media</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Other media">edit</a>]</div> In 2023, Brooks was criticised online following a tweet presented as misleading that claimed an airport hamburger meal had cost $78, and that the exorbitant cost of hamburgers was the reason Americans were dissatisfied with the economy;[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] his critics pointed out that Brooks' high restaurant bill was the result of his ordering multiple scotches along with his meal.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Legacy">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sidney_Awards">Sidney Awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sidney Awards">edit</a>]</div> In 2004 Brooks created an award to honor the best political and cultural journalism of the year. Named for philosopher <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Hook" title="Sidney Hook">Sidney Hook</a> and originally called "The Hookies", the honor was renamed "The Sidney Awards" in 2005. The awards are presented each December.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">non-primary source needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Brooks met Jane Hughes, his first wife, while both attended the University of Chicago. She <a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Judaism" title="Conversion to Judaism">converted to Judaism</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> and changed her given name to Sarah;<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> they divorced in November 2013.<a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post_2013-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-div-102">[102]</a> Their eldest son volunteeered at age 23 to serve in the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defence_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel Defence Force">Israeli army</a> in 2014, as Brooks shared in a September 2014 interview for Israeli newspaper <a href="/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Haaretz_interview-71">[71]</a> Brooks <a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Christianity" title="Conversion to Christianity">converted to Christianity</a> over a period between 2013 and 2014.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Brooks married Anne Snyder in 2017; they met while he wrote <a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Character" title="The Road to Character">The Road to Character</a> and she was his <a href="/wiki/Research_assistant" title="Research assistant">research assistant</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post_2017-104">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Select_bibliography">Select bibliography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Select bibliography">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Editor, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (Vintage, 1996) 0-6797-6654-5</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise" title="Bobos in Paradise">Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There</a> (2000) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-85377-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-85377-9">0-684-85377-9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_Paradise_Drive:_How_We_Live_Now_(And_Always_Have)_in_the_Future_Tense" class="mw-redirect" title="On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense">On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense</a> (2004) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-2738-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-2738-7">0-7432-2738-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Social_Animal:_The_Hidden_Sources_of_Love,_Character,_and_Achievement" class="mw-redirect" title="The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement">The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement</a> (2011) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4000-6760-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4000-6760-2">978-1-4000-6760-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Character" title="The Road to Character">The Road to Character</a> (Random House, 2015) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8129-9325-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8129-9325-7">978-0-8129-9325-7</a></li> <li>The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8-1299-3264" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8-1299-3264">978-0-8-1299-3264</a></li> <li>How to Know a Person (Random House, 2023) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-5932-3006-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-5932-3006-0">978-0-5932-3006-0</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Co-commentator on <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a>: <a href="/wiki/E._J._Dionne" title="E. J. Dionne">E. J. Dionne</a>.</li> <li>Co-commentator on the <a href="/wiki/PBS_Newshour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS Newshour">PBS Newshour</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Capehart" title="Jonathan Capehart">Jonathan Capehart</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Brooks_(commentator)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-pbsbio-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pbsbio_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-pbsbio_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-pbsbio_1-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-pbsbio_1-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-pbsbio_1-4">e</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrooks,_David2011" class="citation web cs1">Brooks, David (December 20, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111220140506/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/politics/political_wrap/bio_brooks.html">"Weekly Political Wrap: Analyst Bio—David Brooks"</a>. <a href="/wiki/PBS_NewsHour" class="mw-redirect" title="PBS NewsHour">PBS NewsHour</a>. 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