How to Know a Person

David Brooks on What Happened to American Conservatism

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, 5 November 2026. The book comes up at 32 min 19 sec in.

David Brooks discusses his own book as one of two personal efforts to address social disconnection, explaining it teaches practical social skills—how to sit with someone suffering from depression or grief, how to ask for forgiveness, how to break up without crushing someone's heart—skills he argues have not been taught for generations and whose absence drives distrust and disconnection.

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