38 results for "David Brooks"
David Brooks: Universities must learn to enhance seminars with technology
Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe best part of the rise of online education is that it forces us to ask: What is a university for?
David Brooks: Same-sex marriage includes arguments for commitment
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 12:00 AMI don't think we've paused sufficiently to celebrate the wonderful recent defeat for the cause of personal freedom. After all, these sorts of defeats don't happen every day.
David Brooks: Two approaches on how to revive a movement in crisis
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe Catholic Church in North Africa was in crisis at the beginning of the fourth century. The Roman emperor Diocletian had persecuted the Christians, and many bishops and priests had collaborated with the regime.
David Brooks: Dems will focus on wedge issues in next four years
Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama's second inaugural comes at an interesting moment, what you might call the end of the era of the Grand Bargain. Throughout his first term, Democrats and Republicans didn't achieve a Grand Bargain on spending and ta...
David Brooks: Policy and practice are often based on faulty psychology
Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMIf you want to deter crime, it seems that you'd want to lengthen prison sentences so that criminals would face steeper costs for breaking the law. In fact, a mountain of research shows that increases in prison terms have done nothing to dete...
David Brooks: Recalling his roots, Rubio gives GOP a sense of optimism
Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 12:00 AMSen. Marco Rubio won the Jack Kemp Foundation's Leadership Award earlier this week. In his speech accepting the award, he sketched out his Republican vision. Some of the policies he mentioned were pretty conventional for someone of his party...
David Brooks: It's time to think about implementing a consumption tax
Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 12:00 AMIn 1986, Democrats and Republicans came together and enacted a tax reform measure that closed loopholes and lowered tax rates.
David Brooks: 'Lincoln' shows how messy politics can yield mighty results
Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 12:00 AMWe live in an anti-political moment, when many people – young people especially – think politics is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business. It's much nobler to do community service or just avoid all that putrid noise....
David Brooks: Biden's vintage style was too hot for the vice presidential debate
Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 12:00 AMSo it was "Honeymooners" vs. "Family Ties," Ed Norton vs. Alex Keating. What we saw Thursday night in the vice presidential debate wasn't only an argument about policy, it was a look at two different eras in American fami...
David Brooks: Policy should focus on psychological barriers to success
Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 12:00 AMIn the 1990s, Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda conducted a study on adverse childhood experiences. They asked 17,000 mostly white, mostly upscale patients enrolled in a Kaiser HMO to describe whether they had experienced any of 10 categories of c...
