1: Journalist and author David Brooks was sitting at a bar near his home nursing his bourbon.
“Because the bar was in D.C.,” he writes in How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, “there were three guys at a table behind me talking about elections and swing states.
“I was studying the bartender’s Chinese-character tattoos and drawing all sorts of … continue reading
1: Journalist and author David Brooks was intimidated.
He was interviewing a ninety-three-year-old Black woman named LaRue Dorsey at a local diner in Waco, Texas.
A former teacher, LaRue “presented herself to me as a stern drill sergeant type, a woman, she wanted me to know, who was tough, who had standards, who laid down the law,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person.
“I … continue reading
