NORTH ADAMS – New York Times Op-Ed Columnist David Brooks will speak at this fall’s Hardman Lecture Series event at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) on Wednesday, Oct 22, at 7 p.m. in the Church Street Center.
The lecture, “Character and Policy: A Personal Look at McCain and Obama,” will include Brooks’ observations of present-day politics and foreign affairs. The event is free and open to the public.
Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a degree in history. 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” and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” 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.
