David Brooks
Politics and the Paradox of Compromise
When interests conflict, the mature compromise. In Washington, though, compromise remains a “dirty word” to many -- so much so, that as David Brooks points out today, the Republicans may be passing up the deal of a lifetime. Read More...
The Nature of the Social Mind
Mar/08/2011 22:12 Filed in: Current Events | Morality
David Brooks has a great article (The New Humanism) on the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times today where he argues that many of the policy failings of the past decades have stemmed from “a single failure: reliance on an overly simplistic view of human nature.” Picking up on themes that have flowed from the fields of psychology and behavioral economics, he points out a common error – separating rationality from intuition (or, as it’s often noted, conscious reasoning from nonconscious or intuitive mechanisms). Read More...
