David Brooks (journalist)
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a columnist for The New York Times who has become one of the prominent voices of conservative politics in the United States.
He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a degree in history. Brooks later served as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has since been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on NPR and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
He has written a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Brooks also writes articles and makes television appearances as a commentator on various trends in pop culture, such as internet dating. His newest book is entitled Paradise Drive.
Before the Second Gulf War, Brooks had argued forcefully on moral grounds for American military intervention in Iraq, echoing the belief of conservative commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators. However, some of his opinion pieces in the spring of 2004, suggested that he had tempered somewhat his earlier optimism about the war.
Brooks describes himself as being originally a liberal. In 1983 for example he wrote in a parody of conservative pundit William F. Buckley, Jr. :
- In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping. (University of Chicago Maroon, April 5, 1983.)
A turning point in Brooks' thinking came later that year in a televised debate with Milton Friedman, in which, according to Brooks, Friedman made a "two-sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point".
Partial bibliography
- On Paradise Drive : How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004) ISBN 0743227387
- Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) ISBN 0684853779
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