The Social Animal

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Brad Pitt, Orchids and the Oakland Athletics

Olga Crosse | Posted 07.04.2012 | Media

Read More: Fred Goodwin, Orchids, Brad Pitt, Chartered Management Institute, Billy Beane Brad Pitt, Malcolm Gladwell, Penna, Henley Business School, Oakland Athletics, Dick Fuld, The Social Animal, David Brooks, Media News

I settled down last recently with a giant bag of Doritos, a lovely glass of wine and the DVD Moneyball, a true story about Oakland baseball team's man...

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How to Change the World: A Breakthrough Idea From the Front Lines

Max Klau | Posted 05.27.2012 | Impact

Read More: City Year, Joseph Campbell, Leadership Development, The Social Animal, High School Dropouts, David Brooks, Impact News

In this era of urgent challenges and limited resources, we cannot afford well-intentioned but ineffective efforts to address pressing public problems like the high school drop-out crisis.

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Humans And Chimpanzees: What's The Difference?

Shastri Purushotma | Posted 10.11.2011 | Religion

Read More: Hamlet, Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Social Animal, Soul, Human Brain, Human Mind and Soul, What Is Soul, Abdul Baha, Baha'i Wisdom, Human Soul, Religion News

Although our understanding of neuroscience has progressed light years since the first "Planet of the Apes" movie, there is a premise of this film at which I'd like to throw a monkey wrench.

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A Bad Week for David Brooks

Mark Engler | Posted 07.30.2011 | Politics

Read More: I Am, Gary Greenberg, Tim Flannery, The Social Animal, Daniel Knowles, David Brooks, Sociobiology, Politics News

Full disclosure: I find New York Times columnist David Brooks exceedingly annoying, and I have no intention of reading his most recent book, The Socia...

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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Parting The Red Sea With My Dad And My Atheist Daughter

Mira Sucharov | Posted 06.09.2011 | Religion

With Passover around the corner, my thoughts turn to how to make the story of the Exodus come alive for my kids. But it's not so simple. My almost-7-year-old daughter is an atheist.

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Why We Hate Going to the Dennis

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

Researchers say that if your appellation is Dennis, you are more likely to become a dentist than a differently monikered individual. But I'm not so sure about this.

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The Education of David Brooks

John Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: School Reform, The Social Animal, David Brooks, Home News

If he continues down the path charted in The Social Animal, we might get to see David Brooks join Diane Ravitch on the front lines of Wisconsin.

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Brooks Pits 'Connection' vs. 'Adventure,' But Why Not Both?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Foreclosures, Depression, The Social Animal, Prius, Jack Kerouac, It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, Power of Lonely, Conservative, Salon, Comfort Inns, On the Road, Unemployment, New Yorker, David Brooks, Financial Crisis, New York Times, American Banking, Healthy Living News

The conservative writer/commentator David Brooks, in this New Yorker excerpt from his new book The Social Animal: A Story of Love, Character, and Achi...

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