David Brooks

Nov 15, 2024 | matr.net | David Brooks

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new. We’re all trapped in a system that was built on a series of ideological assumptions that were accepted 70 or 80 years ago but that now look shaky or just plain wrong. The six deadly sins of the meritocracy have become pretty obvious.

Jun 26, 2024 | msn.com | David Brooks

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Jun 13, 2024 | shorturl.at | David Brooks

David BrooksOpinion ColumnistWhat happens to the extremely intelligent? Do they go from success to success, powered by their natural brilliance? Or do they struggle in a world where they don’t fit in? There are two ways to answer these questions. The first is the social science answer. Social science researchers give promising children intelligence tests, and then they check in on them over the ensuing decades to see how much the students’ early intelligence correlates with lifetime success.

Jun 12, 2024 | americanmoldbuilder.com | Dianna Brodine |Steve Magness |David Brooks |Robin Sharma

By Dianna Brodine, vice president, editorial, The American Mold BuilderI’ve been on enough planes at this point in my life that the safety presentation prior to takeoff is a little like Charlie Brown’s teacher: “Wah wah wah wah wah…” I’m not the only one with this attention-span problem, which is why the Southwest flight attendants sometimes add sarcasm and humor to their speeches and other airlines are creating videos to capture our eyes and ears.

May 22, 2024 | theatlantic.com | David Brooks

You may think you know stories like this one, but it’s important not to become numb to their evil and horror. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was attending the Nova music festival on October 7 when the Hamas terrorists descended. He and three others rushed to their car and tried to escape by heading north. But the terrorists were shooting drivers on the road, so Hersh and his friends instead sought refuge in a nearby bomb shelter. More than 25 young people were crammed into a 5-by-8-foot enclosure.