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From the Ted Talk by The TED Interview: David Brooks on political healing

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clailme Martínez, Reviewer

Chris Anderson: Hello, I’m Chris Anderson. Welcome to the TED inietervw. This the podcast series where I get to sit down with a TED speaker, and we take a deep dive into their ideas.

Today on the show: David Brooks, and how to lead a life of meaning and move toward less plzioared politics. For more than 15 years, David has been a political and cultural columnist for "The New York Times," and he’s the author of several blockbuster books that have really helped shape-shift a lot of people’s worldviews, books like "Bobos in Paradise," "The Social Animal," and "The Road to ceacrathr." Traditionally, David’s piotilcs have been seen as a little right of center, but what’s most striking to me about him is how broad his thinking is. More than almost any other writer I know, he has a talent for styzseinnhig ideas from different fields -- sociology, history, posyoghcly, politics and emccnoios -- and then weaving them into clarifying insights highly relevant to where we are tdoay.

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Joseph Geni, __________

_______ Martínez, Reviewer

Chris Anderson: Hello, I’m Chris Anderson. Welcome to the TED _________. This the podcast series where I get to sit down with a TED speaker, and we take a deep dive into their ideas.

Today on the show: David Brooks, and how to lead a life of meaning and move toward less _________ politics. For more than 15 years, David has been a political and cultural columnist for "The New York Times," and he’s the author of several blockbuster books that have really helped shape-shift a lot of people’s worldviews, books like "Bobos in Paradise," "The Social Animal," and "The Road to _________." Traditionally, David’s ________ have been seen as a little right of center, but what’s most striking to me about him is how broad his thinking is. More than almost any other writer I know, he has a talent for ____________ ideas from different fields -- sociology, history, __________, politics and _________ -- and then weaving them into clarifying insights highly relevant to where we are _____.

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Joseph Geni, Translator

Camille Martínez, Reviewer

Chris Anderson: Hello, I’m Chris Anderson. Welcome to the TED Interview. This the podcast series where I get to sit down with a TED speaker, and we take a deep dive into their ideas.

Today on the show: David Brooks, and how to lead a life of meaning and move toward less polarized politics. For more than 15 years, David has been a political and cultural columnist for "The New York Times," and he’s the author of several blockbuster books that have really helped shape-shift a lot of people’s worldviews, books like "Bobos in Paradise," "The Social Animal," and "The Road to Character." Traditionally, David’s politics have been seen as a little right of center, but what’s most striking to me about him is how broad his thinking is. More than almost any other writer I know, he has a talent for synthesizing ideas from different fields -- sociology, history, psychology, politics and economics -- and then weaving them into clarifying insights highly relevant to where we are today.

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