The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
