The Permanent Questions With David Brooks

David Brooks

Booking Overview

This is a weekly interview show focused on enduring questions of purpose, ethics, relationships, and human flourishing, featuring scholars and other prominent thinkers. Credible pitches would include philosophers, ethicists, authors, psychologists, and other public intellectuals with substantial original work or academic expertise; booking is likely high difficulty.

Metrics

Episodes: 3

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

David Brooks - Journalist, author, and Atlantic staff writer known for writing and speaking about culture, society, politics, morality, and human character.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Philosophers, scholars, authors, and other recognized thinkers with substantial expertise or original work on enduring questions of human life and society.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Academic teaching or research, Recognized expertise in philosophy, ethics, or human flourishing

Recent Guest Discussions

Meghan Sullivan - How To Live A Good Life, Virtue, Positive Impact, And Philosophical Practice.

Recent Topics

Philosophy, Ethics, Relationships, Mortality

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Permanent Questions With David Brooks

What Is Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos?

September 20, 2026

For all of history, humans have been fascinated by the heavens above us. We’ve used the stars to navigate Earth, to predict the future, and to understand our place in the larger scheme of things. Changes in our view of the cosmos—from the Copernican revolution that “uncentered” the Earth to the discovery of the Big Bang and the recognition that the universe is expanding—have invariably changed our view of ourselves. In this episode of The Permanent Questions, David Brooks speaks with...

What Is the Good Life?

September 13, 2026

In the debut episode of The Permanent Questions With David Brooks, David speaks with the philosopher Meghan Sullivan about perhaps the most important question of them all: How should we live our lives? Sullivan is a co-author of The Good Life Method, based on a popular course she teaches at Notre Dame. Leading a good life, she argues, means not just maximizing our positive impact in the world, but cultivating virtue within our own souls. Along the way, David and Sullivan discuss Iris Murdoch,...

Introducing The Permanent Questions with David Brooks

September 04, 2026

How do you find your purpose? How do you confront your own mortality? How do you repair a broken community? There are a lot of podcasts about the latest developments in politics and finance, health and wellness, entertainment and tech. The Permanent Questions is a new show about the topics that never go away. Each week, the Atlantic staff writer David Brooks speaks with the world’s deepest thinkers about matters of enduring human concern. The Permanent Questions premieres on Sunday, Septem...

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