Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — 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
I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning… — 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
