David Brooks Archives - Larry Ackerman

Beauty secrets

October 8, 2026

Beauty surrounds us. So much is written, promoted, and sold in the name of beauty that it is hard to overstate how ubiquitous the idea of beauty is in our lives, especially, as it relates to our bodies and faces. It is everywhere we look: in...

The ‘R’s lose. The ‘D’s lose. The ‘A’s win!

December 5, 2012

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by Larry

So, I'm sitting on the train this morning, from Westport CT to New York City, reading the paper. Today's New York Times had three articles addressing the tug-of-war going on over the fiscal cliff (no pun intended), between the Democrats and the Republicans. The capstone...