David Brooks's Blog, page 85
December 9, 2013
Thinking for the Future
What modes of thought will be most valuable in a future economy defined by machine intelligence?
December 5, 2013
The Irony of Despair
The rise in suicide rates prompts a sober confrontation of old and new questions around the will to overcome.
December 2, 2013
The Stem and the Flower
How much emotional and psychic space should politics take up in everyday life?
August 29, 2013
One Great Big War
Syria’s civil conflict portends a chilling prospect of a wholesale Middle East inferno.
August 26, 2013
The Ideas Behind the March
What Randolph, Rustin and King believed.
August 8, 2013
The Nudge Debate
Considering how mentally lazy most of us are, a little soft paternalism that forces us to choose what’s good for us is probably just what we all need.
August 5, 2013
The A-Rod Problem
Self-preoccupation seems to make it hard for supremely talented people like Alex Rodriguez to deal with their own talents.
August 1, 2013
The Neocon Revival
Do we really want to go back to the ’80s? Why not imagine a better limited-but-energetic government instead?
July 16, 2013
The Filibuster Lives
Brooks and Collins discuss the return of the maverick John McCain and the inner lives of politicians, such as they are.
July 15, 2013
Men on the Threshold
“The Searchers,” a 1956 western starring John Wayne, provides a poignant motif for the challenge facing unemployed men today.
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