David Brooks

And my quick story about that is for all of American history, we had some sense of a shared moral order.

There's a historian, George Marsden, I'll paraphrase what he wrote, that what gave Martin Luther King's rhetoric such force was the idea that moral law was written into the fabric of the universe, that slavery and segregation were not just wrong sometimes, they're always wrong.

And over the last 50 years, in my view, we've sort of privatized morality.

We said there are no shared moral values.

There's no ultimate truth, but everybody gets to come up with their own values.

To each his own narrative.

Yeah, you do you.

You know, it's your truth.

And if you do that, A, unless your name is Aristotle, you probably can't come up with your own moral philosophy.

I mean, most of us can't do that.

But second, we have no shared morality on which to decide what's right and wrong.

And with that, just basic shared standards of how a person should behave.

And there's been that loss of just assumptions of this is what a president does, this is what a president doesn't do.

Thank you.

And thank you, gentlemen.

We've been doing this for long times, back to the 20th century we were doing this.

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Viewers may not know that Robert and I are third cousins.

We learned from a DNA test.

And we grew up in the same housing project, Stuyvesant Town in Lower Manhattan.