David Brooks
出生: August 11, 1961 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David Brooks is a Canadian-born American political and cultural commentator renowned as a longtime New York Times op-ed columnist and analyst for PBS NewsHour. Author of bestsellers including The Social Animal and The Road to Character, Brooks explores morality, society, and character, shaping public discourse with widely read books and influential columns.
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David Brooks, born in Toronto in 1961, is a Canadian-born American writer, acclaimed commentator, and public intellectual whose career spans journalism, political analysis, and bestselling books. Raised in New York City’s Stuyvesant Town and later in the Philadelphia suburbs, Brooks was deeply influenced by his academically engaged family; his father taught English literature, while his mother studied British history. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in history, and his early campus writings showcased both wit and ambition—most notably in a satirical piece that indirectly helped propel his entry into national journalism.
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"David Brooks is a conservative columnist known for his nuanced takes on politics and culture"
— New York Magazine
"Brooks was a volume editor for The Best American Essays, further cementing his reputation as a cultural observer"
— Publishers Weekly
"David Brooks has been both lauded and criticized for his approach to facts and statistics in opinion writing"
— New York Magazine
"David Brooks has been described as 'the kind of conservative writer that wouldn't make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window."
— The New York Times
"TED curator Chris Anderson selected David Brooks’s 2019 talk as one of his favorite talks of that year"
— TED
"David Brooks was criticized for his analysis of Supreme Court decisions, with some calling his interpretations misleading"
— Slate
"Brooks’s book 'The Social Animal' was excerpted in The New Yorker and received mixed reviews upon publication"
— The New Yorker
"Brooks's views on Iraq and American intervention have shifted, reflecting a rare willingness to admit error among political commentators"
— The New Republic
"Brooks’s commentary on Israel has been noted for its strong support mixed with pointed criticism of Israeli policies"
— The New York Times
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