'EXHAUSTION'NYT Columnist Cheers Cable Ratings Decline: ‘I’m Thrilled'Brooks said the spree of political news on airwaves had to end—and that Democrats needed more humility.Corbin Bolies
OUT OF TOUCHRestaurant Joins in Roasting NYT Writer’s Airport Food RantDavid Brooks moaned about his meal costing $78—but social media users quickly found the receipts.Alex Nguyen
ETHICAL NO-NONYT Columnist Quits Paid Nonprofit Gig Over Ethics IssuesBrooks was being paid a salary for his work with the nonprofit, a fact he hadn’t disclosed when he wrote about the organization.Ana Lucia Murillo
opinionCOWBOY COSPLAYMake Manhood Great Again? It Never Was.David Brooks and Peggy Noonan think Trump has destroyed American masculinity—but their idealized era of strong, silent men was always a fiction.Erin Gloria Ryan
WAR OF WORDSTa-Nehisi, David Brooks, and Street CodeBrooks’s belligerent column about Coates’s new book could just as well have been talking about his own theory of journalism.Andrew Gelman
ScourgeGet Off My Lawn: A David Brooks Story<p>In his new book, the <i>New York Times</i> columnist excoriates millennials for their whining self absorption, but was the past that he extolls really all that much better?</p> William O’Connor
Democracy in ProcessDavid Brooks's Egyptian Lessons For IsraelDavid Brooks left off his list one Middle Eastern country that faces some version of the Muslim Brotherhood's problem. Bernard Avishai on the lesson for Israel.Bernard Avishai
ResponseDavid Brooks In The Supermarket Aisles Of JudaismGershom Gorenberg responds to a New York Times op-ed in which David Brooks recounted his tour of the all-kosher Pomegranate market in Brooklyn.Gershom Gorenberg