David Brooks

Lessons from the ancient Greeks can teach us how to deal with today's circumstances.

How to stay sane in brutalising times

WE’RE living in a brutalising time: Scenes of mass savagery pervade the media; Americans have become vicious toward one another amid our...

Georgia's secretary of state Brad Raffensperger at a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol on Nov 11, 2022. The Republican, who defied Trump over election denialism, won by a wide margin on Nov 8.
THE BROAD VIEW

The fever is breaking

The election of 2022 marks the moment when America begins to put performative populism behind, with the emergence of an anti-Trump majority.

A Ukrainian flag waves on a street of the recently liberated village of Vysokopillya in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Ukraine’s tenacity shows how powerful liberal nationalism can be in the face of an authoritarian threat.
PERSPECTIVE

The triumph of the Ukrainian idea

Liberalism and nationalism need not be opposed; their combination can instead be a counter to authoritarianism