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New York Times columnist David Brooks will come to campus as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale on Tuesday, March 29.
"The Future of American Politics: A Discussion with David Brooks" will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 211 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The Poynter Lecture, which is co-sponsored by International Security Studies at Yale, is free and open to the public.
During his stay on campus, Brooks will also meet with students and faculty in informal settings.
Brooks' column on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times started in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.
Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for the previous nine years. His last post at WSJ was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first job at WSJ was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the newspaper's movie critic.
Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983, and worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times.
In addition to his other activities, Brooks is a frequent analyst on NPR's "All Things Considered" and the "Diane Rehm Show." His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, The Public Interest and many other magazines.
He is the author of the books "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," both published by Simon & Schuster. He is editor of the anthology "Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing," published by Vintage Books.
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale was established by Nelson Poynter '27 M.A. It brings to campus journalists who have made significant contributions to their field. In recent years, the fellowship has sponsored visits by Jeff Greenfield, Bob Woodward, Tim Russert, Tom Friedman, Paul Goldberger and Judy Woodruff, among others.
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