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David Brooks Lecture: 'The Cultural Revolution We Need'

The University of Montana hosts David Brooks at the Wilma for UM’s President’s Lecture Series, September 10, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
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David Brooks has worn several journalistic hats over his career: reporter, editor, political and cultural commentator, and in recent years, best-selling author. Brooks presented this lecture, "The Cultural Revolution We Need,” on September 10th, 2018, at the Wilma Theater in Missoula, as part of the University of Montana’s President’s Lecture Series.

David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and a commentator on The PBS Newshour, NPR’s All Things Considered, and NBC’s Meet the Press. He is the author of Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. His fourth and most recent book is The Road to Character. Brooks teaches at Yale University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
 

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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