David Brooks is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a frequent commentator on PBS’s Newshour, NPR’s All Things Considered and The Diane Rehm Show. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly.

Brooks is the author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement; Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There; and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.