David Brooks served as a Senior Fellow at Jackson from 2012-2018 and 2021-2022. He is a columnist for The New York Times, a political and cultural commentator and a bestselling author. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is a weekly commentator on "The Newshour." He is also a frequent analyst on NPR’s "All Things Considered. " His articles have appeared in the The New Yorker, Forbes, the Washington Post and many other publications. Brooks is the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. His most recent book is The Road to Character.