David Brooks's Blog, page 6

Liberalism���s nice rules aren���t enough of a sales pitch.

It starts with keeping our humanity and recognizing it in others.

The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order.

Don���t bet the house on a rosy future.

Dr. Hilary Cass���s thoughtful medical review is a model for how we should address difficult issues.

Amid a wider national atmosphere of division, distrust, bitterness and exhaustion, middle managers are the frontline workers trying to resolve tensions and keep communities working.

I want my technology to have many capacities, but free will is not among them.

Liberal democratic capitalism isn���t some set of abstract ideas. It���s a means to a richer, fuller and more dynamic life.

If the current Israeli military approach is inhumane, is there an alternative?

Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt offered the confidence in our country that we need right now.