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 22 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 #1 New York Times bestsellers.

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 University and at the University of Chicago. He has received over 30 honorary doctorates from American universities and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.