People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
David BrooksDonald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.
David BrooksWe are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.
David BrooksThe legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
David BrooksYou figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
David BrooksThere was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is at war with Islam and maybe some of the other civilizations around the world. And I don't agree with that. But I do think there is such a thing as Western civilization. I think it starts with the Greeks and the Romans. Then it goes through the Enlightenment - or the Reformation, the Enlightenment. It goes through the scientific age. And it somewhat defines some of the cultures and mores of Europe and North America and some other countries.
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