by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
What a difference a K makes. “It has been an aggravation and irritation for some time,” is how David Thorpe of Meredith puts it when talking about whether the letter K belongs in the name of a small lake. “In the last 10 to 15 years, with GPS becoming so ubiquitous,...
by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Evading politics while working in Concord is no easy feat – the other day I had to shoo away a presidential exploratory committee before I could get into my car – but newsroom colleagues can attest that I’m pretty good at it. Yet, even a government-phobe like me has...
by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I wish solar installations were so common that we could move past of tallying how much solar power each state has installed as a sort of virtuous race but we’re not. Still, it has progressed: I can remember tallying it town by town, because it was so rare. As...
by David Brooks | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Harvard law professor Larry Lessig has been in New Hampshire often enough for political advocacy that he knows what will get lawmakers’ attention here, and he got right to the point Tuesday: He thinks our presidential primary is in danger. Lessig was testifying in...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s no good way to reduce the number of black-legged ticks (the sort that spread Lyme and other diseases), despite fans of tick-loving animals like possums and guinea hens, or even robotic tick-snagging robots. The best bet is to target the mammals that...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There is a certain subset of people who, if they were to design a college degree, would include courses like “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Poetry,” “Literature, Film and Technoculture,” and “The Cosmic Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.” Since that subset overlaps strongly with Granite...
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