David Brooks

David Brooks

New York Times

Columnist and Author

David Brooks is a columnist at The New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic, and a commentator on the “PBS NewsHour.” He also teaches at the University of Chicago. Brooks co-founded and chairs Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute, where he was previously executive director. He has also taught at Yale and Duke Universities, was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, held several posts at The Wall Street Journal, and reported for The Washington Times and the City News Bureau, a wire service in Chicago. Brooks is the author of five books, most recently “The Second Mountain,” and “How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.”