David Brooks

1 week ago | nytimes.com | David Brooks

When I was a baby pundit my mentor, Bill Buckley, told me to write about whatever made me angriest that week. I don't often do that, mostly because I don't get angry that much - it's not how I'm wired. But this week I'm going with Bill's advice. Last Monday afternoon, I was communing with my phone when I came across a Memorial Day essay that the Notre Dame political scientist Patrick Deneen wrote back in 2009.

1 week ago | vnews.com | David Brooks

An umbrella covers a golf bag at Beaver Meadow Golf Course on Thursday morning. The forecast calls for rain showers through the weekend. How wet has it been recently? Very. The National Weather Service says this is the fourth wettest May that Concord has ever seen in records dating back to 1868 and the third wettest May that Manchester has ever seen. And May isn’t over yet; more rain is expected Friday.

1 week ago | keenesentinel.com | David Brooks

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1 week ago | vnews.com | David Brooks

Don’t tell Dan O’Neil the movie-theater industry is fading away. “I beg to differ that it is not coming back from COVID because it is. We had a rough time, I admit, closed for over a year with no revenue … and then there was the Hollywood writers’ strike.

1 week ago | amherstbulletin.com | David Brooks

Rhododendrons aren’t looking their best this year and it’s not certain how well lilacs will do following last year’s long dry spell as gardeners gear up for the start of seasonal planting. “We have heard this year that the rhododendrons are looking really rough. It could be that drought” that ran from mid-summer to the start of winter, said Ana Gourlay, manager at Blackforest Nursery in Boscawen.