2009 Opus Distinguished Speaker is David Brooks

Author and columnist David Brooks will be on campus Tuesday, May 5, to meet with
students and to give a public presentation, “The Age of Obama,” as the 2009 Opus
Distinguished Speaker.

Brooks has been an op-ed columnist with The New York Times since September 2003. He was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and is currently a commentator on “The Newshour with Jim
Lehrer.” He is the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. He is a frequent analyst on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and the “Diane Rehm Show.” His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, the TLS, Commentary, The Public Interest and many other periodicals.

Brooks’ presentation is from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. It will
be held in the Schulze Grand Atrium at the School of Law on the Minneapolis Campus. For more information, visit www.stthomas.edu/business/events.

After his public presentation, Brooks will join the Master of Business Communication
students and alumni at a reception in honor of that program’s 25th anniversary. The reception is by invitation only.

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