David Brooks on Second Acts

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 29, 2020

David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times and the author of The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019), now out in paperback, talks about his book which examines the lives of people who respond to a crisis by shifting their priorities from themselves to their communities, newly relevant during the COVID-19 crisis, plus offers his take on the national news.

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