What if We Faced the Facts: I Am Part of this Cult and So Are You
8 min readApr 24, 2019
David Brooks’s Five Lies can empower us, one truth at a time
Before I’d finished reading Five Lies Our Culture Tells, I wanted to send it to everyone I know. David Brooks had clearly articulated my reasons for leaving a profession I’d worked so hard to join. (The article summarizes some of his new book The Second Mountain: The quest for a moral life.)