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David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

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There’s a lot going right at universities, if you’re only willing to see it.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 32:18 Updated at 10:53 a.m. ET on May 19, 2026 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. R oosevelt Montás grew up in a small mountain village in the Dominican Republic. Two days before his 12th birthday, his mother flew him up to New York, where she had found a minimum-wage job in a garment factory. A few years later, when he was a sophomore in high school, some neighbors in his apartment building threw out a bunch of books. One of them was a finely bound volume of Socratic dialogues. Montás snagged it—and Socrates cha

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