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This week on Here\\u2019s The Thing, Alec talks with David Brooks on stage at Joe\\u2019s Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan as part of the Public Forum series.\\xa0David Brooks has been a\\xa0New York Times\\xa0op-ed columnist since 2003.\\xa0He is known as a Conservative voice -- he was a senior editor at\\xa0The Weekly Standard\\xa0-- but former Obama advisor David Axelrod described him as a \\u201ctrue public thinker.\\u201d

Join Baldwin and Brooks on stage at Joe\'s Pub for a wide-ranging conversation: Brooks tells Baldwin about writing a humor column in college; about William F. Buckley\\u2019s \\u201ccapacity for friendship\\u201d and about his evolution of opinion toward the Iraq war. They debate fracking -- Brooks says, "I am where President Obama is. So I\'m a good Democrat on this issue." Brooks wonders about the possibility of Hillary Clinton in 2016; and he explains to Baldwin his basic feeling about college education: "Every course you take in college should be about who to marry."

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