Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.
David BrooksThat is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
David BrooksThis death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
David BrooksI'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.
David BrooksWe still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country with common ancestors. And reviving the civics of America and the idea that we're going to be united, at least not right now, but in some common future, and talking in that hopeful way that Martin Luther King did, that Abraham Lincoln did, seems to me that's the way.
David Brooks