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David Brooks

David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. His latest book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House), was released in 2023. He is the author of The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019), and founder of Weave: The Social Fabric Project.

Wisdom Is Not Intelligence

Why the voyage of life demands something deeper.

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Why the voyage of life demands something deeper.