Readers respond to a column by David Brooks, “The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds.” Also: Republican election stunts.

PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join John Yang to discuss the week in politics, including the MAGA debate over releasing the ...

PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the debate over the Epstein ...

The day I encountered David Brooks in person, I was first struck, as we sat next to each other at a conference, at how short this larger-than-life columnist was. Later, at another gathering he ...

David Brooks’ recent column in the New York Times, “Why I Am Not A Liberal,” claims that giving people money has failed as an anti-poverty solution because poor people lack the right culture and ...

Let’s do a little ethical experiment here. In World War I, the Germans used mustard gas on civilians, and it helps them. Do you then decide, OK, we’re going to use mustard gas in civilians? What Trump ...

In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed, and the weak suffered what they must. But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: ...

Readers respond to a column by David Brooks. To the Editor: Re “The Decline of Great Novels,” by David Brooks (column, July 13): I’m a novelist in my 20s, squarely in the cohort of writers that Mr.

David Brooks is scheduled to entertain an audience in Greenwich this month. If there's any justice in the world, he'll be speaking to a random collection of empty seats, cleaning staff and people ...

Last May, a study came out suggesting that merely giving people money doesn’t do much to lift them out of poverty. Families with at least one child received $333 a month. They had more money to spend, ...