David Brooks

When Jewish leaders say “I was wrong”

By Jeffrey Salkin — October 1, 2022
It takes moral courage to say that you were wrong. 'Tis the season to do so.

Evangelical Christians looking for renewal should look to the margins

By Joshua Stanton and Benjamin Spratt — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — The crisis of church and synagogue is not a crisis of faith, so much as a crisis of purpose.

Evangelicals must stop consulting themselves for guidance

By Blake Chastain — February 17, 2022
(RNS) — The United States cannot afford to give evangelicalism the benefit of the doubt again, and evangelicals cannot afford to just talk among themselves any longer. 

The worst day in American Jewish history

By Jeffrey Salkin — October 27, 2021
(RNS) — Eleven people died the day of the Tree of Life shooting. They died the death of the righteous. They died as kedoshim, as martyrs.

Shame, grace and #STOPtheSTEAL

By Karen Swallow Prior — March 3, 2021
(RNS) — How we read the world depends on the kinds of stories we traffic in.

What religion is David Brooks, anyway?

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 10, 2019
As Johnny Cash would have said: David Brooks walks the line.

What David Brooks could teach Howard Stern

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 5, 2019
Two Jewish media figures talk about the meaning of life. One of them is no surprise. The other...?

Can a Catholic critique of ‘throwaway culture’ pull politics from the brink?

By Charles C. Camosy — May 15, 2019
(RNS) — The church’s Consistent Life Ethic, rightly understood, could challenge our impoverished and incoherent political imagination and let a new generation begin the hard work of laying out the foundational principles for what comes next.

Souls and the guns of America

By Martin E. Marty — October 10, 2017
Let me be ecumenical, interracial, and multi-classy by noting that “everybody” who prosecutes the culture wars wields symbols of awareness of their losses.

Why David Brooks is my rabbi (COMMENTARY)

By Jeffrey Salkin — May 6, 2015
(RNS) Yes, Brooks brings a lot of Christian thinkers into his work. But this is also good for the Jews.

Q&A: David Brooks on character, sin and rumors about his religious journey

By Jonathan Merritt — May 1, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) David Brooks is the rarest breed in politics -- a conservative Jew who's captivated by notions of sin, character and the appeal of liberal Catholic activist Dorothy Day.
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