“How To Know a Person”

David Brooks will deliver the 2026 Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Lecture as the closing keynote address of a month-long symposium on Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Quest for Meaning, written in 1946, after the psychiatrist survived four concentration camps. Frankl saw the quest for life’s meaning as the central motivational force for humankind. Brooks has been grappling with these issues his whole career. He is a columnist for The New York Times, was a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute and serves as chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. $35 | $5 Fairfield University student | $25 Quick Member Tickets at https://fairfield.evenue.net/events/OVF032926