David Brooks plays therapist in his latest article this week, published on Friday: “The Psych Approach”. He begins by citing a 1990’s experiment by Felitti and Anda which gave subjects […]

Brooks’ Tuesday article, “Thurston Howell Romney” reacts to the video that was recently leaked, showing Romney at a private fund-raiser in Boca where he deemed 47% of the country “dependent” […]

David Brooks began his week’s contributions with the article “Why Men Fail”, a laundry list of statistics and then a brief review of Hanna Posin’s book, The End of Men. […]

As the president reared the stage, the U2 hit, City of Blinding Lights swelled in the arena. I couldn’t help but remember the first words of that song, “The more […]

Bill Clinton was a bulwark in the Democratic National Convention last night, as well as in the Obama effort as a whole. To my relief, his overall message was “cooperation”, […]

This first night of the DNC was described by PBS commentators as the night to “fire up the Democrats”, a time for installing enthusiasm, and bringing out young voters. I […]