Frank Bruni | The Age of Grievance

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In conversation with Karen Heller, former national features writer and current contributor for The Washington Post, formerly a metro and features columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.
A journalist at The New York Times for more than 25 years, Frank Bruni has been the paper’s Rome bureau chief, head restaurant critic, White House correspondent, and staff writer for its Sunday magazine, among other positions. In 2011 he became the Times’ first openly gay op-ed columnist. His bestselling books include Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush; Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater; Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania; and The Beauty of Dusk, a memoir about adjusting to suddenly losing sight in his right eye. Also currently a professor of public policy at Duke University and the writer of a popular weekly Times newsletter, Bruni formerly worked as a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer for the Detroit Free Press. In The Age of Grievance, he examines the ways in which the blame game has come to define American politics and culture.
Recorded May 9, 2024
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[@annayeatts87]

Your memoir was great!!💯

[@renzo6490]

Ginni Thomas is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife.

[@highpointadvisors9314]

Humility has to be taught BEFORE SCHOOL AGE, then built on with the schools supporting the values. The breakdown of the family replaced the parents as the purveyors of morality, including humility, with the government. The schools also replaced the parents as the purveyors of food for school age children. If you wait for the schools to provide values, more likely you'll teach children how to feign those values.
Of course, then they can become politicians.....

[@annayeatts87]

I agree with your opinions and love your point of view 👏👏😁👍

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[@47imagine]

I love Frank Bruni but I think Taylor Swift is arguably the most overrated artist of the decade.

[@marwar819]

I don't love Bruni but, agree about Swift.

[@Daniel-r3y2u]

I think Beyonce takes the top spot. But it's close.

[@Daniel-r3y2u]

He writes for the nyt. Spot the irony.