David Brooks

A primer for the Democratic candidates from Congress, who face daunting historical odds

We all pay lip service to the melting pot, but we really prefer the congealing pot

Is Tony Blair what Bill Clinton should have been?

The Iraqi people, and anyone who wants to help them, will have to deal with the long-term psychological trauma of life under Saddam

The revival of blatant sexism in American culture has many progressive thinkers flummoxed

A six-step program

The CIA's brand of rational analysis is perpetually half right in a way that makes it completely wrong

Einstein was right when he said that imagination is more important than knowledge

We have democratized elitism in this country. Now everybody can be a snob

Different times call for different virtues

The mid-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr may have gotten a lot of things wrong—but we could use a thinker like him today

The PLO leader is a terrible administrator but a brilliant image crafter

How suicide bombing became not just a means but an end

Can self-fulfillment build character?

If the century ahead turns out to have a theme, what will it be?

The midlife crisis as a patriotic duty

An exit strategy isn't a foreign policy

The young men and women of America's future elite work their laptops to the bone, rarely question authority, and happily accept their positions at the top of the heap as part of the natural order of life