The Power of Conversation: David Brooks Explores Life’s Permanent Questions

David Brooks Podcast

The Power of Conversation: David Brooks Explores Life’s Permanent Questions

Posted: September 18, 2026

By: Mason Lapine

A new podcast from Yale Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks is asking some big questions about purpose, meaning, and what makes a good life.

Produced by The Atlantic in partnership with Yale, The Permanent Questions is recorded at the Yale Teaching Studios, the same studios where many Yale Online courses and programs come to life. The series features conversations with Yale faculty and other experts, including Professor Shelly Kagan, whose popular Yale course Death is available to learners online.

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