David Brooks

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David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator who contributes to The New York Times.

He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a writer and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, as a senior editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, as well as a commentator on NPR and the PBS NewsHour.

Early life and education

Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario, where his father was doing a PhD at the University of Toronto. He and his brother, Daniel, spent their youth in the Stuyvesant Town housing project in New York City. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother researched nineteenth-century British history at Columbia University. Brooks was raised Jewish but he rarely attended synagogue in his later adult life. Brooks attended the Grace Church School, an independent Episcopal primary school in East Village, as a youth. His family immigrated to Philadelphia's Main Line, one of Philadelphia's wealthy suburbs. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. Brooks received a degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1983. Robert Ardrey, a well-known science writer, was his senior thesis.

Brooks contributed essays and satirical articles to campus journals as an undergraduate. "In the afternoons, he wrote a satire about wealthy conservative William F. Buckley Jr.'s lifestyle, making everybody else feel inferior." The evenings are set for extended bouts of name-dropping." "Some will say I'm jealous of Mr. Buckley," Brooks wrote in his piece. But, if truth be known, I need a job and have a peculiar way of asking.

So how about it, Billy?

Can you spare a dime?"

As Buckley arrived to speak, he wondered if Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered him a job.

Personal life

Jane Hughes, Brooks' first wife, was a student at the University of Chicago. She converted to Judaism and changed her given name to Sarah, according to her. They divorced in November 2013. Anne Snyder, Brooks' former research assistant, married writer Anne Snyder in 2017.

In a September 2014 interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Brooks said that his oldest son served in the Israel Defense Forces.

Brooks said he became a Christian in 2013, 2014, or 2014, in an interview published on May 23, 2022.

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Early career

Brooks became a Chicago police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times jointly owned a wire service. He claims that his experience with the Chicago murder trial had a conservatizing effect on him. Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern at Buckley's National Review in 1984, being alert of the fact that he had been rejected from Buckley. According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to Brooks' poshible lifestyle, including yachting expeditions, Bach concerts, dinners at Buckley's Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford, Connecticut, and a steady stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities.

Brooks spent time at Stanford University's conservative Hoover Institution, as well as writing film reviews for The Washington Times during his time as Buckley's internat.

Career

Brooks was hired by The Wall Street Journal in 1986, where he began as an editor of the book review section first. He also worked as a film critic for five months. Brooks appeared in newspapers from 1990 to 1994, from Brussels, where he covered Russia (making numerous trips to Moscow); the Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. Brooks appeared in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard on his return to the country in 1994. Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing Two Years Later, he edited an anthology, Backward and Upward.

Brooks wrote Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There in 2000, a book of cultural interpretation. The book, which was a paean to consumerism, argued that the current managerial or "new upper class" represents a union between the liberalism of the 1960s and 1980s self-interest.

According to a 2010 essay in New York Magazine by Christopher Beam, New York Times editorial-page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch.

Brooks' book On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense was released in 2004 as a sequel to his 2000 best seller, Bobos in Paradise, but it was not as well-reced as its predecessor. Brooks is also the volume editor of The Best American Essays (publication date October 2, 2012) and he wrote The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. The book was excerpted from The New Yorker in January 2011 and received mixed feedback upon its full launch in March of that year. In April 2011, it debuted well and reached #3 on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction.

Brooks, a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaches an undergraduate seminar in the fall of 2006. He teaches a Yale University course on philosophical humility in 2013.

Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees in 2012. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

Brooks spoke at a TED Talk in Vancouver titled "The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters – And a Healthy Way to Live" is a British term that means "The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters – And a Better Way to Live. It was one of his favorite talks of 2019 TED curator Chris Anderson's.

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