Posts Tagged ‘D.Brooks’
On the State and Future of the Conservative Movement
The Becker & Posner Blog:
Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam? Richard Posner
The Serious Conflict in the Modern Conservative Movement. Gary Becker
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WORLD VIEW: Fareed Zakaria
The End of Conservatism
Conservative slogans sound anachronistic in the context of today’s problems, like an old TV show from the 1970s.
From the magazine issue dated Feb 25, 2008 / NEWSWEEK
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Op-Ed Columnist
The Republican Collapse
by DAVID BROOKS
Published: October 5, 2007 NYT
Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. …>>
Justice David Souter
United States
The Supreme Court
Following Souter
May 7th 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Barack Obama has a chance to rejuvenate the Supreme Court’s liberal wing
DAVID SOUTER … is a singular character. Though wealthy, he lives the life of Diogenes. He lunches frugally at his desk, typically on yogurt and an apple, which he eats to the core. He seldom goes out. He has no time for modern distractions such as television. But most unusually of all, despite having life tenure as a judge on the Supreme Court, he is planning to retire at the tender age of 69.
He loves judging but hates Washington, DC. He calls it the worst city in the world, though he has barely travelled. He yearns to return to his home in a tiny hamlet in New Hampshire, a dilapidated wooden farmhouse where he lives alone. …>>
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David Souter
by J.Stone
May 01, 2009, The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
It would appear from the latest news reports that Justice David Souter is about to part ways with the Supreme Court after a nineteen-year tenure. At the time of his nomination by President George H. W. Bush, David Souter was a virtual unknown. In his long career as a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, a judge on the New Hampshire trial court, and New Hampshire’s attorney general, he seldom had occasion to express his views on controversial constitutional issues. Many critics of the nomination complained that President Bush had found a “stealth candidate” who had no “paper trail” but was secretly a rock-solid conservative determined to overturn Roe v. Wade and to outlaw affirmative action. It didn’t turn out quite that way. …>>
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United States
The Supreme Court
Change at the top
May 1st 2009
From Economist.com
The retirement of Justice David Souter will let Barack Obama begin to shape the Supreme Court …>>
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NYT blog: The Conversation: Talking between columns / May 6, 2009, 12:46 pm
Who Will Replace Souter?
By David Brooks and Gail Collins
Gail Collins: David, I’m really eager to hear your opinions about the upcoming debate over a new Supreme Court justice. Here are some thoughts …>>
http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/who-will-replace-souter/#more-155
C.Rose: Conversations about the economy
A conversation about the economy with Bill Ackman, major investor and hedge fund manager of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, Kate Kelly of The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and Joseph Stiglitz, economist and a member of Columbia University faculty
in Current Affairs / on Friday, April 24, 2009
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A conversation with Lionel Barber, editor of the “Financial Times”
in Current Affairs, Business / on Friday, April 24, 2009
David Brooks on conservatism, moderates, end of philosophy
A Moderate Manifesto
By DAVID BROOKS 2009/March/2 NYT
You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs. …>>
Big-Spending Conservative
By DAVID BROOKS 2009/April/21 NYT
President Obama is arguing for his activist agenda as a defense of middle-class morality and is positioning Democrats as the party of order and small-town values. This should make Republicans nervous. …>>
The Republican Collapse
By DAVID BROOKS 2007/October/5 NYT
Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. …>>
The End of Philosophy
By DAVID BROOKS NYT 2009/April/7 NYT
Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of moral thinking based less on reason and deliberation and more on seeing and evaluating. …>>
C.Rose: A conversation with David Brooks
A conversation with David Brooks of “The New York Times”
in Current Affairs / on Thursday, April 23, 2009
BROOKS What Life Asks of Us
The New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
What Life Asks of Us
by David Brooks
Published: January 26, 2009
There is another, older way of living, and it was discussed in a neglected book by the political scientist Hugh Heclo. In this way of living, we are defined by what life asks of us.
