So, what’s led this divide? For the Atlantic’s December issue cover story, Contributing Writer David Brooks argues that the dysfunctional system of meritocracy is largely responsible and needs ...

David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly ...

Our elite-education system has a lot to answer for, Brooks argues. We need a new set of meritocratic values.

America is the land of inequality disguised as opportunity, and though elite institutions have played a role in that ...

‘Non-Crime’ Blotter There is much to say about the David Brooks “Elegy” for conservatism in The Atlantic, the latest in a never-ending series of “Why Today’s Conservatives Are Not Like ...

David Brooks says Harvard broke America? Bu Asian Americans broke Harvard. by Emil Amok The Game is this weekend—the ...