David Brooks: We’re only as smart as our emotions
So what are some of the things modern neuroscience has taught us?
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David Brooks: What Democrats need to do now
"MAGA looks like a kind of right-wing Marxism, which assumes that class struggle is the permanent defining feature of politics," Brooks writes.
David Brooks: The deep source of Trump’s appeal
"The task is to build a new cultural consensus that is democratic but also morally coherent," Brooks writes.
David Brooks: We haven’t hit peak populism yet
If social trust is to be rebuilt, it probably has to be rebuilt on the ground, from the bottom up.
David Brooks: The authoritarians have momentum, and here’s partly why
When societies become liberal all the way down, they neglect a core truth.
David Brooks: The quiet magic of middle managers
I’ve come to believe that these folks are the unsung heroes of our age.
David Brooks: The great struggle for liberalism
The great liberal societies that Zakaria describes expanded and celebrated individual choice and individual freedom.
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David Brooks: Models for a generous American patriotism — and national self-confidence
I turn to two leaders who knew something about projecting hope in exhausting times: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
David Brooks: The GOP reverts to a bad old mood
It was a culture of pessimism that restored the old GOP, not any set of arguments
David Brooks: A cure for what ails our democracy
We pluralists believe that conflict is an eternal part of public life, but it is conflict of a limited sort, a debate among patriots,