by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Balancing the health of a community with the rights of individuals — a long-simmering issue that grew heated during the COVID pandemic and hasn’t cooled since — took center stage Wednesday in a hearing about a bill that would end vaccine mandates in New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
As we all know, the New England Patriots are going to be playing Sunday in Super Bowl 111100. No, wait, that’s Base 2. Wrong notation. I mean Super Bowl 0x3C. No, darn it, wrong again. That’s Base 16. Super Bowl 0.0006 Lahk? No, that’s India’s...
by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want to start a debate, wonder out loud why human beings all over the world are growing less enthusiastic about having children. People definitely have opinions. You will be told that the fall in fertility rates seen in most of the countries of the world,...
by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont Public has a story about firewood prices and availability in that state becoming more of an issue, partly because fewer loggers want to create firewood – it’s not very lucrative – and, surprising to me, because this cold winter has slowed the...
by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Recycling has always been a kludge, an inefficient process trying to minimize the damage caused by making and owning stuff. Worse, a lot of it is just greenwashing, a pretense that gives companies and consumers a feel-good way to pretend we’ve not causing so...
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