Scholes Global Markets Forum: David Brooks - "When Hyde Park Rules America"

Initiative on Global Markets

December 3, 2008: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

David Brooks, New York Times Columnist and commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer" will speak at the Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum. He will discuss the outlook for the US under an Obama administration. He will also talk about reform prospects within the Republican party now, that it is out of power. Learn more.

Where

Gleacher Center, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Room 621
450 N. Cityfront Plaza Dr.
Chicago, IL

Cost

Registration

Questions

Jennifer Williams
773-702-6324

Event Details

The Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum brings business leaders, policy makers, and distinguished academics to address the Chicago community on topics of current interest. These events are open to the public but do require advance registration.

Speaker Profiles

David Books (Speaker)
New York Times columnist

David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." He is the author of "Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There" and "On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense," both published by Simon & Schuster.

Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic.

His distinguished history of contributions to publications include: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Public Interest, the TLS, The New Republic and Commentary among others.

He is also a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, CNN's Late Edition and the "Diane Rehm Show." Mr. Brooks is the editor of the 1996 anthology "Backward and Upward: the New Conservative Writing."

Born on August 11, 1961 in Toronto, Canada, Mr. Brooks graduated a bachelor of history from the University of Chicago in 1983. Immediately afterward, he became a police reporter for the City News Bureau, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times.