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David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)〔 is an American conservative〔"David Brooks." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Biography In Context. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.〕〔"David Brooks." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Biography In Context. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.〕 political and cultural commentator who writes for ''The New York Times''.〔Eberstadt, Mary (ed.), "Why I turned right: leading baby boom conservatives chronicle their political journeys," Simon and Schuster (2007).〕 He worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the ''Washington Times'';〔(David Brooks Analyst Bio ) Online NewsHour〕 a reporter and later op-ed editor for ''The Wall Street Journal'';〔(Columnist Biography: David Brooks ), New York Times〕 a senior editor at ''The Weekly Standard'' from its inception; a contributing editor at ''Newsweek'' and ''The Atlantic Monthly''; and as a commentator on National Public Radio. He is now a columnist for ''The New York Times'' and commentator on the ''PBS NewsHour''.〔 ==Background== Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario—his father was an American citizen living in Canada at the time—and spent his early years in the middle-income Stuyvesant Town housing development in downtown New York City. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at Columbia. Although his family was Jewish,〔(It's Back ), ''The Weekly Standard'', Feb 20, 2003〕〔(A Loud and Promised Land ), ''New York Times'', April 16, 2009. "As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel..."〕 Brooks himself is not especially observant.〔(Christopher Beam, "A Reasonable Man", ''New York Magazine'' (July 12, 2010) )|''"His wife is devoutly Jewish; she converted after they married and recently changed her name from Jane Hughes to the more biblical-sounding Sarah Brooks but he rarely attends synagogue"''〕 As a young child, Brooks attended the Grace Church School, an independent Episcopal primary school in Greenwich Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line, the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history.〔 His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey, best known for his 1966 book espousing "hard" primitivism, ''The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations.'' Brooks is Jewish, but has not been particularly observant.〔(It's Back ), ''The Weekly Standard'', Feb 20, 2003〕〔(A Loud and Promised Land ), ''New York Times'', April 16, 2009. "As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel..."〕〔( Christopher Beam, "A Reasonable Man", ''New York Magazine'' (July 12, 2010) ). Regarding his views on liberals, he has said. “I think it’s more a matter of respect than agreement. I don’t have a sense that they’re idiots.”〕 As an undergraduate, Brooks frequently contributed reviews and satirical pieces to campus publications. In his senior year, he wrote a spoof of the life-style of wealthy conservative William F. Buckley Jr., who was scheduled to speak at the university: "In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping."〔University of Chicago ''Maroon'', April 5, 1983.〕 To his piece, Brooks appended the note: “Some would say I’m envious of Mr. Buckley. But if truth be known, I just want a job and have a peculiar way of asking. So how about it, Billy? Can you spare a dime?” When Buckley arrived to give his talk, he asked whether Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered to give him a job.〔("Everybody's a Critic", Mary Ruth Yoe, ''University of Chicago Magazine''(February, 2004). )〕 Upon graduation, Brooks became a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.〔(Biography page for David Brooks on PBS ).〕 He says that his experience on Chicago's crime beat had a conservatizing influence on him〔Beam, "A Reasonable Man" (''New York Magazine'', 2010).〕 In 1984, mindful of the offer he had previously received from William F. Buckley, Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern on Buckley's ''National Review''. According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to the affluent life style that Brooks had previously mocked, including yachting expeditions; Bach concerts; dinners at Buckley’s Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford, Connecticut; and a constant stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities. Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience. ''National Review'' was a Catholic magazine, and Brooks is not Catholic. Sam Tanenhaus later reported in ''The New Republic'' that Buckley might have eventually named Brooks his successor if it hadn’t been for his being Jewish. “If true, it would be upsetting,” Brooks says.〔Beam, "A Reasonable Man", ''New York Magazine" (2010).〕 After his internship with Buckley ended, Brooks spent some time at the conservative Hoover Institute at Stanford University and then got a job writing movie reviews for the ''Washington Times''. In 1986, Brooks was hired by the ''Wall Street Journal'', where he worked first as an editor of the book review section, enlisting William Kristol to review Allan Bloom's ''The Closing of the American Mind'', which catapulted that book to national prominence. He also filled in for five months as a movie critic. From 1990–94, ''The Wall Street Journal'' posted Brooks as an op-ed columnist to Brussels, from whence he covered Russia (making numerous trips to Moscow); the Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. On his return, Brooks joined the neo-conservative ''Weekly Standard'' when it was launched in 1994–95. In 1996, he edited an anthology, ''Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing.''〔〔PBS biography of Brooks.〕 In 2000, Brooks published a book of cultural commentary entitled ''Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There'' to considerable acclaim. The book, a paean to consumerism, argued that the new managerial or "new upper class" represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self-interest of the 1980s. According to a 2010 article in ''New York Magazine'' written by Christopher Beam, ''New York Times'' editorial-page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch. Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist William Safire, but one who understood how liberals think. “I was looking for the kind of conservative writer that wouldn’t make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window,” says Collins. “He was perfect.” Brooks started writing in September 2003. “The first six months were miserable,” Brooks says. “I’d never been hated on a mass scale before.”〔 In 2004, Brooks' book ''On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense'' was published as a sequel to his 2000 best seller, ''Bobos in Paradise'', but it was not as well received as its predecessor. Brooks is also the volume editor of ''The Best American Essays'' (publication date Oct. 2, 2012), and he authored ''The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement''.〔(Random House website ) The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement.〕 The book was excerpted in ''The New Yorker'' magazine in January 2011 and received mixed reviews upon its full publication, by Random House, in March of that year. The book has been a commercial success, reaching the #3 spot on the ''Publishers Weekly'' best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011. Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006. In 2013, he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Brooks (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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