David Brooks

David Brooks is staff writer for the Atlantic and the inaugural senior presidential fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is a commentator on The PBS Newshour and founder and chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project. Previously, he served as a columnist at the New York Times for twenty-two years. 

His most recent book is How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. His previous books include The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, and The Social Animal, all number-one New York Times bestsellers.

Mr. Brooks began his career as a police reporter in Chicago and worked at the Wall Street Journal as a foreign correspondent, op-ed editor, and, briefly, as movie critic. He has also taught at Duke and at the University of Chicago. He has received over thirty honorary doctorates from American universities and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.