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'We have to invent a new country now': KGOU's conversation with David Brooks

David Brooks and KGOU's Logan Layden
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David Brooks and KGOU's Logan Layden

New York Times columnist and NPR contributor David Brooks delivered the commencement address for OU graduates Friday. KGOU’s Logan Layden had a chance to sit down with Brooks while he was on campus, to talk about the deep divides that make our politics so caustic, and about the future of the country’s discourse.

Logan Layden is a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma. Logan spent six years as a reporter with StateImpact from 2011 to 2017.
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