David Brooks (journalist)

David Brooks is an American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for The Washington Times a reporter and later oped 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 NPR. He is currently a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on PBS NewsHour.

Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontariohis father was an American citizen living in Canada at the timeand spent his early years in the middleincome Stuyvesant Town housing development in downtown New York City. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother studied nineteenthcentury British history at Columbia. Although his family was Jewish, Brooks himself is not especially observant. As a young child, Brooks attended the Grace Church School, an independent Episcopal primary school in Greenwich Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line, the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history. His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey.

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