David Brooks

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DAVID BROOKS is a best-selling author, a recurring commentator on PBS NewsHour, and an op-ed columnist at the New York Times whose columns are among the most read in the nation. He is the author of six books including the bestsellers The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and Bobos in Paradise. His newest bestseller, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, is a guide to fostering authentic connection in a society plagued by loneliness and fragmentation. Brooks is the founder and chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute whose mission is to promote the building of connection and the weaving of a rich social fabric in our schools, workplaces, and every part of life. He has been awarded more than 30 honorary degrees from American colleges and universities, was a Jackson Senior Fellow at Yale, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.