David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural commentator who considers himself a moderate and writes for The New York Times. He worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times ; a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal ; a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly; and as a commentator on National Public Radio...
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David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural commentator who considers himself a moderate and writes for The New York Times. He worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times ; a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal ; a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly; and as a commentator on National Public Radio. He is now a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on PBS NewsHour.
Brooks, who is Jewish, was born in Toronto, Canada – his father was a US citizen living in Canada at the time – and grew up in New York City in Stuyvesant Town. He graduated from Grace Church School in New York City, Radnor High School (located in a Main Line suburb of Philadelphia) in 1979 and from the University of Chicago, with a degree in history, in 1983.
Brooks edited a 1996 anthology of writings by new conservative writers, Backward and Upward: The New...
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