Read more David Brooks stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/23085/david-brooks.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:13:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74186/us-needs-to-regain-faith-in-the-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica needs to overcome its "crisis of faith" caused by China's phenomenal growth, writes David Brooks. Today's China is optimistic, forward-looking, and dynamic in the way America once was and should hope to be again, he points out in the New York Times . Surveys show that 86% of Chinese believe...http://www.newser.com/story/74186/us-needs-to-regain-faith-in-the-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 4:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73966/unassuming-thune-could-be-gops-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe junior senator from South Dakota is starting to get a lot of attention from the less hysterical sections of the GOP as the party seeks to build on recent successes, writes David Brooks . John Thune never sounds like he's auditioning for a spot on talk radio, but instead puts...http://www.newser.com/story/73966/unassuming-thune-could-be-gops-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 8:06:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73661/stop-making-excuses-for-hasan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCommentators are working overtime to explain away the Fort Hood shootings as a personal breakdown rather than what it obviously was, three conservative columnists argue today: a terrorist assault by an Islamic extremist. The explanation for Major Hasan's actions should be crystal clear to anybody not afraid of offending Muslim...http://www.newser.com/story/73661/stop-making-excuses-for-hasan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 7:11:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72619/get-a-clue-washington-you-cant-do-everything.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagClamping down on arrogant, risk-taking execs with an overconfident attempt to overhaul private sector pay structures shows that the arrogance has migrated to the Obama administration, writes David Brooks. The government is trying to micro-manage compensation packages at a wide variety of firms when pay regulation should be done, humbly,...http://www.newser.com/story/72619/get-a-clue-washington-you-cant-do-everything.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 5:10:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71857/leveling-with-voters-could-revive-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe economy might be in shambles, but Republicans are offering no alternative plan to ward off mounting American debt—insisting on yet more tax cuts and refusing to cut into bloated Medicare. David Brooks suggests they take a lesson from their British cousins, the Tories, who are poised to win...http://www.newser.com/story/71857/leveling-with-voters-could-revive-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 8:22:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71298/maybe-baucus-bill-is-better-than-nothing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEven David Brooks has become convinced that the health care system needs a fundamental overhaul—and unfortunately, it’s not going to get one. The best option, Democrat Ron Wyden’s proposal to let employees take their employer’s contribution and spend it on an open health care exchange, was killed in committee,...http://www.newser.com/story/71298/maybe-baucus-bill-is-better-than-nothing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 7:41:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70824/beck-and-co-just-little-men-with-big-voices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOnce again the right-wing radio guys have managed to convince everyone that they are a great and powerful force to be reckoned with. David Brooks revisits the 2007 Republican primaries, when Rush, Hannity, Beck and company were all weak-kneed over Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney, but bashed “unreliable deviationists” John...http://www.newser.com/story/70824/beck-and-co-just-little-men-with-big-voices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 9:40:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69699/obama-backlash-isnt-about-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt's a mistake to see the growing backlash against President Obama through the prism of race, David Brooks writes in the New York Times . The anti-Obama movement springs not from racism, but from the long American tradition of popular distrust of the urban elite, argues Brooks. He notes mostly white...http://www.newser.com/story/69699/obama-backlash-isnt-about-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 1:25:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69437/brooks-humility-is-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhat happened to humility in America? In the past few days, we’ve seen Joe Wilson interrupt a presidential speech, Kanye West steal Taylor Swift’s microphone to voice his opinion, and Michael Jordan offer up an “egomaniacal” Hall of Fame speech, writes David Brooks in the New York Times . “Today, immodesty...http://www.newser.com/story/69437/brooks-humility-is-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 15 Sep 2009 10:45:00 CDT