Times columnist David Brooks changes position, endorses reparations

By Paul Conner

Published March 8, 2019 5:02pm ET

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Times columnist David Brooks changes position, endorses reparations — In this Jan. 19, 2012, file photo, New York times columnist David Brooks shares a stage with pundits during a panel discussion, "2012: The Path to the Presidency", at the University of Chicago in Chicago. Brooks has become a target of online criticism over an opinion piece published July 11, 2017, in which he describes taking a friend without a college degree to a Mexican restaurant because he assumed she was intimidated by the menu at a gourmet eatery. | (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

New York Times columnist David Brooks is endorsing reparations, compensation to descendants of slaves and victims of discriminatory government policies.

In a Thursday column, Brooks admitted that nearly five years ago he disagreed with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article in the Atlantic on “The Case for Reparations.” But Brooks, who came to the Times in 2003 as a conservative columnist, wrote he sees reparations as necessary to make amends for past and ongoing discrimination.

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