Here’s a picture of David Brooks and me at his talk last night here in Baltimore.  My wife suggested we go even though he is a “conservative” columnist at the New York Times.  He characterized this position as like being the chief Rabbi in Mecca since the New York Times is not a conservative newspaper.  So I didn’t know what to expect.

I’m glad I went.  Mr. Brooks is one of most insightful people I have talked to.  He is excellent at seeing connections between events and people today and putting them together in ways that are easy to understand and help make what is happening in the world today more understandable.  I’m going to start reading his column in the paper regularly now.