David Brooks

Jan 16, 2025 | pbssocal.org | David Brooks

Back to Show PBS Books Season 2025 Episode 8 Americans are increasingly subjected to and affected by the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2025, state Attorneys General want to make sure AI is used in positive ways and not as the latest tool to defraud citizens. Michelle Henry (D)(Pennsylvania) was Attorney General at the time of this interview, but she has now become the Inspector General of Pennsylvania.

Nov 9, 2024 | mercurynews.com | David Brooks

We have entered a new political era. For the past 40 years or so, we lived in the information age. Those of us in the educated class decided, with some justification, that the postindustrial economy would be built by people like ourselves, so we tailored social policies to meet our needs. Our education policy pushed people toward the course we followed — four-year colleges so that they would be qualified for the “jobs of the future.” Meanwhile, vocational training withered.

Jul 15, 2024 | due.com | JL Collins |Wade Pfau |Dan Buettner |David Brooks |John Rampton

Many people are intimidated by retirement planning. Like all major life transitions, there is always an element of uncertainty, even when you make plans. You can, however, gain valuable insight from reading books about retirement. After all, as the saying goes, “failing to plan is planning to fail.” With that said, here are 15 books that cover different aspects of retirement, from financial planning to finding happiness.

Jun 16, 2024 | compliancepodcastnetwork.net | David Brooks |Sal Khan |Kristin Hannah |Chris Anderson

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we look at four book recommended by Bill Gates for summer 2024 reading.

May 22, 2024 | mercurynews.com | David Brooks

The central struggle in the world right now is between liberalism and authoritarianism. It’s between those of us who believe in democratic values and those who don’t — whether they are pseudo-authoritarian populists like Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Narendra Modi or Recep Tayyip Erdogan or straight-up dictators like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping or theocratic fascists like the men who run Iran and Hamas. In this contest, we liberals should be wiping the floor with those guys! But we’re not.