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David Brooks will deliver the 2026 Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Lecture as the closing keynote address of a month-long symposium on Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, written in 1946, after the psychiatrist survived four concentration camps. Frankl saw the quest for life’s meaning as the central motivational force for humankind. 

Brooks has been grappling with these issues his whole career. David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers, authors, and commentators. Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic, and appears regularly on PBS Newshour. 

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