David Brooks's Blog, page 60

The Movement Mentality

Sadly, we are experiencing an atomization of intellectual life, with fewer movements to join and shape an individual’s identity.

The Governing Cancer of Our Time

Donald Trump’s candidacy is the culmination of 30 years of antipolitics.

Three Views of Marriage

We make our decisions about matrimony by looking through several lenses: the psychological, the romantic and the moral.

A Little Reality on Immigration

The Republican push for tight borders is a change for conservatives and contrary to what the facts say are good for the country.

The Roosevelt Approach

You candidates running against Trump and Sanders, you need a new emotional tone, one appealing to comradeship, not anger.

Livin’ Bernie Sanders’s Danish Dream

His policies would give several of our systems northern European characteristics, including some that could surprise some of his supporters.

I Miss Barack Obama

This campaign is highlighting some of the president’s better traits.

A Question of Moral Radicalism

Stories of extreme do-gooders are both inspiring and unnerving. So how altruistic must one be?

Donald Trump Isn’t Real

The Iowa vote shows some version of normalcy returned to the G.O.P. race and the vulnerability of the showbiz candidate.

What Republicans Should Say

David Cameron has outlined a truly conservative, pragmatic response to poverty. We need an American version of it.