No. 88 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Author and professor, Vanderbilt
Arthur Brooks is an author and academic who writes on happiness, leadership and free enterprise.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Arthur Brooks's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Defended capitalism at the Munk Debates with David Brooks, on the winning side.
Brooks is the Kohler Family Professor at Vanderbilt and a senior fellow at Harvard Business School. He previously led the American Enterprise Institute.
He hosts the podcast Office Hours with Arthur Brooks.
On the record
2019
December 4, 2019
Formal debateWon the audience vote
Against Katrina vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis · Munk Debates, Toronto
Arthur Brooks argued against the motion with David Brooks. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 2 percent.
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