David Brooks farewell column
In reality, I’ve long believed that there is a weird market failure in American culture. There are a lot of shows on politics, business and technology, but there are not enough on the fundamental questions of life that get addressed as part of a great liberal arts education: How do you become a better person? How do you find meaning in retirement? Does America still have a unifying national narrative? How do great nations recover from tyranny?
Four decades of hyper individualism expanded individual choice but weakened the bonds between people. Multiple generations of students and their parents fled from the humanities and the liberal arts, driven by the belief that the prime purpose of education is to learn how to make money.
“The U.S. oil industry has long opposed government intervention in the fossil-fuel business….”
Collin Eaton and Vera Bergengruen, , “Big Oil Wary of U.S. Foray Into Venezuelan Oil Sector,” Wall Street Journal (September 5, 2026).