Introducing: The Permanent Questions With David Brooks

Conversations from the deep endThe AtlanticSeptember 4, 2026, 11:45 AM ET Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube How do you find your purpose? How do you confront your own mortality? How do you repair a broken community? There are a lot of podcasts about the latest developments in politics and finance, health and wellness, entertainment and tech. The Permanent Questions is a new show about the topics that never go away. Each week, the Atlantic staff writer David Brooks speaks with the world’s deepest thinkers about matters of enduring human concern. The Permanent Questions premieres on Sunday, September 13, and new episodes will appear every Sunday after that. Subscribe now on The Atlantic’s YouTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts.About the Author