Afternoon forum with David Brooks and Michael Smolens.
David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. He is a commentator on The PBS Newshour, NPR's "All Things Considered," and NBC's Meet the Press. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, and is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and Newsweek. His books include Bobos in Paradise, The Social Animal, and The Road to Character (a #1 NYT bestseller). His latest book is The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (also a #1 NYT bestseller).
Michael Smolens is a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune with a long history of political coverage. He was government and politics editor at the U-T from 1992 until late 2017. During that time he had overseen local, state and national political news. As a reporter, he covered politics at all levels, including San Diego City Hall, and did a four-year stint in the news organization’s Sacramento bureau in the late 1980’s. A native of Wellesley, Mass., Smolens graduated from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, where he majored in English and journalism. Smolens also attended Elmira College in New York and was a goalie on the school’s hockey team. Declining reflexes persuaded him not to seek a career in the NHL.
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