It sure looks like it. Here is a taste of his column today: I have a bunch of friends and acquaintances who are Never Trump, maybe-Trump or kind-of-Trump Republicans. They’ve been looking around for the candidate they can support and...
David Brooks thinks so, and he’s probably right. Here is a taste of his recent New York Times column: If I were asked to trace the decline of the American psyche, I suppose I would go to a set of...
Here is The New York Times columnist in the wake of the Supreme Court ending affirmative action today: We’ve been debating affirmative action since I was in diapers, and increasingly the Supreme Court has gotten into this issue, and now...
Here is the The New York Times columnist: If I walked onto the field at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and stomped on a Dodger’s uniform on home plate, I hope that the Dodgers and their fans would be upset....
New York Times columnist David Brooks encourages college students to take courses and learn to think in ways that “machines will not replicate.” Here is a taste: If, say, you’re a college student preparing for life in an A.I. world,...
Here is a taste of Brooks’s recent New York Times column: Biden’s cheerful confidence is an unappreciated national asset. As American power has come to be underestimated, especially since the election of Donald Trump, a man like Biden, who has...
New York Times columnists Bret Stephens and David Brooks, both conservatives, reflect on what has happened to the Republican Party. It’s a fascinating discussion. Here is a taste: David Brooks:Â My thinking about the G.O.P. goes back to a brunch I...
David Brooks nails it: Besides being offended by the racist comments made by members of the Los Angeles City Council — as so many people were — I was also struck by the underlying worldview revealed during their leaked conversation....
New York Times opinion columnists tell us what they got wrong: In our age of hyperpartisanship and polarization, when social media echo chambers incentivize digging in and doubling down, it’s not easy to admit you got something wrong. But here...
Don’t get me wrong–I am humbled that you are reading our work here at Current. I would be even more humbled if you became a patron. But the title of this post plays off of David Brooks’s recent piece at...
Are you a pastor who wants your church to grow? There is a new church-growth formula out there. If you are a pro-Trump, anti-critical race theory, anti-mask, and anti-vaccine pastor your church will grow. It will not grow through evangelism,...
Writing at WORLD magazine, the latest imperial conquest of the fundamentalist fiefdom over which he presides, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler has responded to David Brooks’s recent New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters. Let’s break it down:...
On Friday I posted on Brooks’s New York Times essay “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself.” Shortly after I read the piece I got three wisdom teeth removed, so I am finally getting around to giving it a...
David Brooks has collected a list of evangelicals who are trying to “save evangelicalism from itself.” They are Thabiti Anyabwile, Tim Dalrymple, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Russell Moore, David Bailey, Karen Swallow Prior, David French, Rachael Denhollander, Beth Moore, Lecrae,...
Al Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and editor of World magazine’s new “Opinions” section, recently challenged the politics of New York Times columnist David Brooks in a piece titled “Sir, you are not a conservative.” In response...
Here is a taste of his New York Times column: The Democratic spending bills are economic packages that serve moral and cultural purposes. They should be measured by their cultural impact, not merely by some wonky analysis. In real, tangible...
David Brooks believes that if you want to understand the Trump backlash in 2016, you need to revisit the folks he wrote about in his 2000 book Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Here...
For Blacks, this country is still pretty racist. For Hispanics, things are getting better. Here is Brooks: How high are the barriers to opportunity for different groups? Do different groups have a fair shot at the American dream? This approach...
The New York Times columnist is worried about American democracy. Here is a taste of Brooks’s latest piece: Liberal democracy is based on a level of optimism, faith and a sense of security. It’s based on confidence in the humanistic...
New York Times columnist David Brooks on Biden’s COVID-19 relief package: The Covid-19 relief law that was just enacted is one of the most important pieces of legislation of our lifetimes. As Eric Levitz writes in New York magazine, the poorest fifth...
