David Brooks

One of my favorite sayings about writers is writers are beggars who tell other beggars where they found bread.

and I'm just working on my shit in public.

If what I'm going through is what other people are going through and I have the time because I don't have a real job, I can find something useful that they find useful too, that's rewarding to me.

I love doing that and that's what I hope to do for the next five or 10 years.

Then on my podcast, there are a lot of great researchers who we all interview in the media.

There are a lot of great teachers who never get interviewed.

And these are the people who are great in the classroom, men and women who just know how to talk to young people.

They know how to communicate great truths.

And I'd love to spend a large part of my podcast talking to them and seeing what they have to offer us.

Thank you.

And I'm a big fan and follower of the show.

So always, whether I'm speaking or just out there listening, I'm part of your conversation.

Thanks, David.

I am still a New York Times columnist, but this is my final act of journalism with the New York Times, which is great for me and even greater for the future of the New York Times.

Yeah, well, those four unravelings.

First, the unraveling of the Western alliance, the post-Cold War alliance.

Second, the unraveling that TJ just described, our democratic order.

Third, the unraveling of our domestic security, the sense that we live in a relatively free, at least free of state violence.

And we can no longer be sure of that.

And then the fourth, and to me, the most important and the primary one is the unraveling of Trump's mind, if you want to put it that way.