Connecting.the.Dots

Writing a book is like any act of indecent exposure: You can enjoy doing it, but sooner or later, may be punished, as David Brooks is disco...

In 2006, conservative columnist David Brooks fell in love politically with a young senator and wrote a column, " Run Barack Run ."...

As the Sotomayor Show drones on , Democrats and Republicans are pushing dueling plot lines--an American dream of minority upward mobility vs...

If you doubt that liberal and conservative have lost all meaning in the health care debate, consult the New York Times ' columnists of t...

"And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand," George W. Bush told high-scho...

"Obama is positioning the Democrats as the party of order, responsibility and small-town values," David Brooks writes in the New Y...

You've got it all wrong about Rush Limbaugh dictating Republican strategy. Actually it's David Brooks. In his New York Times column...

For over two years, David Brooks has been torturing himself--and us--over his infatuation with Barack Obama and the nagging conservative con...

Passing the $789 trillion bill on Friday the 13th, as Congress seems ready to do, may be a risky move in view of all the voodoo fears about...

The Treasury Secretary is announcing his plan to save the banks this morning, but the New York Times has it all before he says a word. A fr...

When Tom Wolfe dramatized the Age of Greed in the 1980s, his novel satirizing the downfall of a Wall Street Master of the Universe was not ...

In the wreckage of this week's news, it's encouraging to watch the Obama Administration taking shape with an emphasis on extreme com...

The humiliation of Alan Greenspan last week in publicly admitting his fallible perception of the housing bubble prompts David Brooks to see...

George W. Bush is leaving conservatives with their worst nightmare, an economic disaster that will, in David Brooks' words, bring on a ...

As the McCain-Palin campaign veers Wild Westward, the GOP Eastern elite is dropping off the wagon train. CNN reports a "conservative b...

In a hybrid of defense closing argument and political obituary, David Brooks in today's New York Times comes forward as a character wit...

After years of Bush's always-wrong-but-never-in-doubt presidency, Republican swiftboaters are launching their first attack ad on Obama,...

David Brooks today straddles the gap between social pressures and personal responsibility in " The Culture of Debt " by insisting ...

In an era of information and ideas moving at the speed of light, the rehabilitation has begun on both sides of the Atlantic. Over here, Davi...

Last year, John McCain felt the fury of media scorn, and now it's Barack Obama's turn for the hurt feelings of journalists as passi...