David Brooks is my favorite New York Times columnist. He was a protege of William F. Buckley and a conservative, but voted for Obama. Brooks's columns include politics, policy and social commentary. Recently, a lot of his writing has turned to how our emerging understanding of neuroscience influences our perception of ourselves, our culture, and our society. There's a little too much popular science for my taste on occasion, but he's a thoughtful guy, and I find him to be much more insightful than most.

By the way, this is a review of his blog, which confusingly does not include his columns which can be found here: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html?inline=nyt-per

If you're interested in seeing more, he's been on Charlie Rose a number of times: http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/190

And is on the News Hour every week analyzing the news:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/politics/political_wrap/

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T N. i also love david brooks and i think there's NOT ENOUGH popular science...

i think the reason that there's been more recently is because david brooks isn't actually david brooks. there's a whole team of automatons working underneath him producing work liked crazy oompa loompas, and he comes in at the end and throws in a couple of his famous brooks zingers and bam! (you know what happens then).

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