David Brooks (journalist)
| David Brooks | |
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| Born |
August 11, 1961 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Washington, D.C., United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (A.B. 1983) |
| Occupation | Columnist, pundit |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah (née Jane Hughes; 1986–2014; divorced; 3 children) |
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is an American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed 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 a commentator on NPR. He is currently a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on PBS NewsHour.
Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario—his father was working on his PhD in Canada at the time—and spent his early years in the middle-income Stuyvesant Town housing development in lower Manhattan. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at Columbia. Although his family was Jewish, Brooks himself is not religiously 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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