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Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989
by Kristina Spohr
Published 23 Sep 2019

David Holley ‘British Leader Visits Beijing, Easing Sanctions’ LAT 3.9.1991; idem ‘Britain and China Clash Over Rights’ LAT 4.9.1991 Back to text 122. Thomas L. Friedman ‘US Calls North Korea Atom Plan a Global Concern’ NYT 14.11.1991. See also Elaine Sciolino with Eric Schmitt ‘Algerian Reactor Came From China’ NYT 15.11.1991. See also David R. Schweisberg ‘China vows to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’ UPI 10.8.1991. Back to text 123. Baker The Politics pp. 588, 590 Back to text 124. Ibid. p. 590 Back to text 125. Ibid.; Thomas L. Friedman ‘Baker Asks China to Free Prisoners’ NYT 16.11.1991 p. 3 Back to text 126. Baker The Politics pp. 591–2; Thomas L. Friedman ‘Baker Fails to Win Any Commitments in Talks in Beijing’ NYT 17.11.1991.

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Diary Entry 17.10.1990, printed in Bush & Scowcroft A World Transformed pp. 383 and see also pp. 384–5. Baker The Politics pp. 303–4. Cf. Thatcher The Downing Street Years pp. 823–4, 826 Back to text 124. Baker The Politics p. 304 Back to text 125. Thomas L. Friedman ‘Bush and Baker Explicit in Threat to Use Force’ NYT 30.10.1990; Baker’s Address before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council Dispatch [Why America Is in the Gulf] vol.1 no.10 5.11.1990 US DoS Back to text 126. Thomas L. Friedman ‘Baker Seen as a Balance to Bush on Crisis in Gulf’ NYT 3.11.1990; Baker The Politics p. 303 Back to text 127. Baker The Politics pp. 303–5 Back to text 128. See Gordon ‘Bush Sends New Units to Gulf to Provide “Offensive Option”’ Back to text 129.

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Sun ‘Chinese Foreign Minister Will Visit Middle East; Beijing Using Gulf Crisis to End Isolation’ WP 4.11.1990; Michael Pillsbury China Debates the Future Security Environment National Defense UP 2000 pp. xxxv–xxxvi Back to text 134. Baker The Politics p. 309; Suettinger Beyond Tiananmen p. 113; David Hoffman ‘China Signals Assent to UN Vote on Force’ WP 7.11.1990; Thomas L. Friedman ‘Baker Gets Help From China on Gulf’ NYT 7.11.1990 Back to text 135. GHWBPL NSC, Richard Haass Files – Working Files Iraq November 1990 (OA/ID CF01584) Baker’s Memorandum for the President: My Day in Moscow 8.11.1990 pp. 1–7 esp. pp. 3–5 MTF. Cf. Baker The Politics pp. 309–13; Thomas L. Friedman ‘Moscow Refuses to Rule Out Force’ NYT 11.11.1990 Back to text 136. GHWBPL NSC Richard Haass Files – Working Files Iraq November 1990 (OA/ID CF01584) Baker’s Memorandum for the president: London Meetings – top secret 10.11.1990 pp. 1–2 MTF Back to text 137.

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
by Robert Bryce
Published 16 Mar 2011

Available: www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ aeo/index.html. 29. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat, 8. 30. Yale Global Online, “‘Wake Up and Face the Flat Earth’—Thomas L. Friedman,” April 18, 2005. Available: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5581. 31. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Energy Wall,” New York Times, December 1, 2006, 31. 32. Thomas L. Friedman, “Let’s Roll,” New York Times, January 2, 2002, 15. 33. Thomas L. Friedman, “A Failure to Imagine,” New York Times, May 19, 2002, 15. 34. Thomas L. Friedman, “Dancing Alone,” New York Times, May 13, 2004, 25. 35. Thomas L. Friedman, “Too Much Pork and Too Little Sugar,” New York Times, August 5, 2005. 362 Notes to Chapters 18 and 19 36.

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Karlyn Bowman, “The Federal Government: Losing Public Support,” Roll Call, October 5, 2006. 8. Stan Greenberg, Amy Gershkoff, and James Carville, “Re Meltdown II,” Democracy Corps, October 19, 2006. Available: http://www.democracycorps.com/ reports/analyses/Democracy_Corps_October_19_2006_Memo.pdf. 9. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Energy Mandate,” New York Times, October 13, 2006, 27. 10. Greenberg et al., op. cit. 11. Some estimates rank Venezuela and/or Canada ahead of Iraq, but those estimates are counting unconventional oil. In the case of Venezuela, that estimate is counting that country’s deposits of extra-heavy crude.

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Fred Singer, “Old Security Myths,” Washington Times, November 28, 2003. Available: http://www.sepp.org/Archive/NewSEPP/WashTimes-Security%20Myths %20Singer.html. 92. Marc Labonte and Gail Makinen, “Energy Independence: Would It Free the United States from Oil Price Shocks?” Congressional Research Service, updated January 11, 2002. 93. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Geo-Green Alternative,” New York Times, January 30, 2005. 94. Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, “Fueling Terror,” undated. Available: http://www.iags.org/fuelingterror.html. 95. Alan Reynolds, “Alternative-Fuel Nonsense,” National Review Online, May 27, 2005. Available: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/reynolds 200505270855.asp. 334 Notes to Chapter 3 96.

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Published 3 Sep 2007

The first principle, Goldberg notes, was that “Israelis were the only ones entitled to decide Israeli policy” and the second was that “American Jews should stand publicly united with Israel and air disputes only in private.”45 By the 1970s, writes Edward Tivnan, “Total support of Israel had become a requirement of leadership in local Jewish communities throughout America.”46 The norm against public criticism of Israeli policy remains for the most part intact.47 In October 1996, for example, the president of ZOA, Morton Klein, sent a letter to ADL head Abraham Foxman protesting an invitation to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman to speak at an ADL dinner, charging that Friedman “regularly defames Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” Klein then circulated the letter to an array of officials at the Conference of Presidents, leading Foxman to denounce him as a “thought policeman.” The dispute intensified when David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu’s director of communications, weighed in and declared that Friedman should not be given a platform by “any organization that purports to be Zionist.”

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It has become a major direct mail fundraising enterprise by outflanking even the ADL in the hunt for anti-Semitic threats to Jewish security. It is (sadly) not uncommon today to see organizations jockeying for position in a context to determine who among them is ‘toughest’ in fighting anti-Semitism that is waged in the Jewish press and barrages of direct mail appeals.”64 Or as Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times remarked three years later, “Ever since Mr. Rabin and Mr. Arafat shook hands they have received only the most tepid support from mainstream American Jewish groups, like the Conference of Presidents, and outright hostility from the orthodox and fringe Jewish groupings. It is as if these organizations can only thrive if they have an enemy, someone to fight.”65 It bears repeating that a number of groups in the American Jewish community are critical of certain Israeli policies, and especially its continued presence in the Occupied Territories.

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Conversely, Alterman identified only five pundits who consistently criticize Israeli behavior or endorse pro-Arab positions.2 Although some readers subsequently challenged Alterman’s coding of a handful of cases and a few of those he listed are now deceased, the disparity remains overwhelming and the challenges did not undermine his core claim.3 Consider the columnists who have covered the Middle East for the New York Times and the Washington Post in recent years. William Safire and the late A. M. Rosenthal were passionate defenders of Israel (and in Safire’s case, especially favorable toward Ariel Sharon); today, David Brooks consistently defends Israel’s position. Thomas L. Friedman is more moderate; he has been critical of some of Israel’s policies (and occasionally the lobby itself), but he almost never takes the Palestinians’ side or advocates that the United States distance itself from Israel. Nicholas D. Kristof is frequently critical of various aspects of American foreign policy and wrote one controversial column in March 2007 decrying the lack of serious public discussion of U.S. relations with Israel.

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)
by Noam Chomsky
Published 1 Apr 1999

Address by Defense Minister Sharon to the Israeli Knesset, excepts translated in the New York Times, Sept. 23, 1982. David Lamb, Los Angeles Times—Boston Globe, Sept. 17, 1982. Ibid. Reuters, New York Times, Sept. 17, 1982. David K. Shipler, “Israeli Issue: Sharon.” New York Times, Sept. 27, 1982. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, Sept. 27, 1982. Colin Campbell. New York Times, Sept. 20, 1982. See ch. 4, 7.2. Bernard Nossiter, New York Times, Sept. 18, 1982. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, Aug. 2, 1982. David Lamb, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 16, 1982. David Lamb and J. Michael Kennedy, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18; Classics in Politics: The Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky Aftermath 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 731 Newsweek, Sept. 27, 1982.

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See also Robert Fisk, London Times, Sept. 20; Manchester Guardian weekly, Sept. 26; and numerous other sources providing direct and credible evidence of the participation of these forces. New York Times, Sept. 23, 1982. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, Sept. 19, 20, 26; Carey, Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 20; Newsweek, Oct. 4. 1982. David Lamb, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 21, 1982. Loren Jenkins, “Witnesses Describe Militiamen Passing Through Israeli Lines,” Washington Post, Sept. 20, 1982. William E. Farrell, New York Times, Sept. 24; Yuval Elizur, Boston Globe, Sept. 21; David K. Shipler, New York Times, Sept. 20, 1982. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, Sept. 27, 1982; interview with Gen. Drori. David Bernstein, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 21, 1982.

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Weisman, “Reagan Accuses Israelis of Delay On Withdrawal,” New York Times, Feb. 8, 1983. Official translation of Amin Gemayel’s address to the UN Security Council, Monday Morning. Oct. 25-31, 1982. Editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 7, 1983. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, May 10, 1983. For the text of the agreement, see New York Times, May 17, 1983. Parts remain secret. David K. Shipler, New York Times, May 11; Bernard Gwertzman, with David K. Shipler and Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, May 10, 1983. The agreement was opposed by the Progressive Socialist Party of Walid Jumblatt and by Amal, along with pro-Syrian groupings. Economist, May 21, 1983.

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber
Published 1 Jan 2007

That our current capitalist dilemma is not, as Daniel Bell portrayed it several years ago, that the passing of the Protestant ethic has left capitalism “with no moral or transcendental ethic,”6 but that it has acquired a new and different ethic which has both secular and religious overtones and which legitimates the tendencies that consumer capitalism today requires in order to survive—tendencies, as Thomas L. Friedman has described them, “to extol consumption over hard work, investment, and long-term thinking.”7 That if capitalism’s productivist rise was attended and fortified by a Protestant ethic, there is today also another ethic to be uncovered—by no means Protestant—attending and fortifying capitalism’s incipient decline into hyperconsumerism.

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He preferred the de facto to high principles: “Many of the most successful standards, however,” he observes, “are ‘de facto’: ones the market discovers…. But because de facto standards are supported by the marketplace rather than by law, they are chosen for the right reasons and to get replaced when something truly better shows up.”79 In his boosterist paean to new technologies called The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman rightly extols the pioneering work of Marc Andreessen in developing the Mosaic web browser, which set an industry standard and turned the internet into a usable technology.80 What he fails to notice is that it was not Andreessen the pioneer but Gates the rational consolidator who fashions the consumer monopoly and makes the fortune off of pioneers who came first.

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The more efficiently we can summon products from anywhere on the globe, the more stress we put on our own communities.”26 Wal-Mart (perfecting the strategy of earlier catalog and big-box retail giants like Sears, Roebuck and Company and Montgomery Ward) sets the consumer in us against the citizen in us, pitting our private interest in obtaining cheap goods against our public interest in having a just and community-sustaining capitalist economy that produces secure high-paying jobs and preserves local communities with robust retail sectors—sectors that are often at the heart of a local community’s civic life.27 Thus do the ethos of infantilism and the ideology of privatization privilege the consumer in us over the citizen is us. Thomas L. Friedman grasps what he calls this “multiple identity disorder,” but, favoring market solutions, implicitly rejects the notion that civic identity with its public concerns trumps consumer identity with its private concerns. Hence all he can do is scratch his head over the “multiple identities—consumer, employee, citizen, taxpayer, shareholder”—that are called up by the dilemmas of WalMart economics, without being able to prioritize them politically or recognize that the very meaning of political sovereignty is to establish the priority of public over private.

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability
by David Owen
Published 16 Sep 2009

But cutting back on fossil fuels isn’t like cutting back on restaurant meals or trips to Paris; it’s more like cutting back on oxygen or water. Dramatically upending the economic basis of entire societies doesn’t usually turn out well for those societies. Unsettling ramifications extend in every direction. The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has written about what he calls “The First Law of Petro-Politics,” which states: “As the price of oil goes up, the pace of freedom goes down. As the price of oil goes down, the pace of freedom goes up.”29 There’s that to brood about, too. In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development, which had been established four years earlier by the United Nations, published an influential book, called Our Common Future, which summarized numerous international hear ings on issues related to sustainability.

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Modern HVAC systems have made most of us lazy about temperature control, and therefore about energy use: when we feel uncomfortable, we adjust the thermostat rather than identifying the source of the problem and looking for a low-tech remedy. Installing high-tech windows, like installing rooftop photovoltaic panels, should be considered “the dessert part,” in the sense that Steven J. Strong meant, and should be contemplated only once all the simpler and far more cost-effective steps have been taken. Thomas L. Friedman, in his recent book Hot, Flat, and Crowded, conveys this same basic idea in a memorable chapter title: “If It Isn’t Boring, It Isn’t Green”—seven words that should be adopted as a mantra by all environmentalists, as a reminder of the dangers and temptations of LEED brain.31 ON THE AFTERNOON OF AUGUST 14 , 2003, I WAS WORKING in my office, on the third floor of my house, when the lights blinked and my computer’s backup battery kicked in briefly.

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Wald, “Questions About a Hydrogen Economy,” Scientific American, May 2004. 28 Romm quoted in Robert S. Boyd, “Hydrogen Cars May Be a Long Time Coming,” McClatchy Newspapers, May 15, 2007. Joseph J. Romm, The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005). 29 Thomas L. Friedman, “The Democratic Recession,” The New York Times, May 7, 2008. 30 World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 45. 31 Russell Gold, “As Prices Surge, Oil Giants Turn Sludge into Gold,” The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2006. 32 The survey was conducted online, and the sample was small—just 501 respondents—and the project was partly sponsored by Archer Daniels Midland, which is not only involved in the manufacture of bioplastics but also bears a major responsibility for the economic distortions built into the U.S. corn market and for the absurd federal subsidies for the production of ethanol, but the results are consistent with my own informal sampling.

That Used to Be Us
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Published 1 Sep 2011

.; high-speed train from New York to; public school system; snowy winters in; terrorist attack on, see September 11, 2001; transit system in Washington, George Washington magazine Washington Post Washington Wizards basketball team Watergate scandal Waterloo, Battle of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill Weekly Standard Weingarten, Randi Welles, Orson Wellington, Duke of West Alabama Chamber of Commerce Whalen, Bill Whig Party Whitney, Meredith Whole New Mind, A (Pink) Wichita (Kansas) Wiki WikiLeaks Wikipedia Wilde, Oscar Williams, Tennessee Williams College Wilmington (Delaware) Wilson, Woodrow wind power Winklevoss, Cameron and Tyler Wired magazine Wisconsin Wisconsin, University of World Bank World Economic Forum (Tianjin, China; 2010) World Is Flat, The (Friedman) World Series World Trade Center, terrorist attack on, see September 11, 2001 World War I World War II; African American aviators in; economy during; scientific research during; veterans of World Wide Web WTOP radio station X Xi’an (China) Xu, Kevin Young Y Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute Yale University; Law School; School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Ye, Lynnelle Lin Yemen Yeung, Angela Yu-Yun Ying, Lori YouTube Z Zellweger, Renée Zhang Huamei Zhao, Alice Wei Zhou, Linda Zimbabwe Zuckerberg, Mark Zynga A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times and is the author of five bestselling books, including The World Is Flat (2005). Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, is the author or co-author of twelve books, including The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (2002). Copyright © 2011 by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum All rights reserved Farrar, Straus and Giroux 18 West 18th Street, New York 10011 Designed by Jonathan D.

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We now live and work in the nation’s capital, where we have seen firsthand the government’s failure to come to terms with the major challenges the country faces. But although this book’s perspective on the present is gloomy, its hopes and expectations for the future are high. We know that America can meet its challenges. After all, that’s the America where we grew up. Thomas L. Friedman Michael Mandelbaum Bethesda, Maryland, June 2011 PART I THE DIAGNOSIS ONE If You See Something, Say Something This is a book about America that begins in China. In September 2010, Tom attended the World Economic Forum’s summer conference in Tianjin, China. Five years earlier, getting to Tianjin had involved a three-and-a-half-hour car ride from Beijing to a polluted, crowded Chinese version of Detroit, but things had changed.

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We need to reconnect with the values and ideals that made the American dream so compelling for so many generations of Americans, as well as for so many millions of people across the globe. That is all part of our past. That used to be us. And because that used to be us, it can be again. That is why, today, the history books we need to read are our own and the country we need to rediscover is America. ALSO BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) Longitudes and Attitudes (2002) The World Is Flat (2005) Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008) ALSO BY MICHAEL MANDELBAUM The Nuclear Question (1979) The Nuclear Revolution (1981) The Nuclear Future (1983) Reagan and Gorbachev (co-author, 1987) The Fate of Nations (1988) The Global Rivals (co-author, 1988) The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996) The Ideas That Conquered the World (2002) The Meaning of Sports (2004) The Case for Goliath (2006) Democracy’s Good Name (2007) The Frugal Superpower (2010) Acknowledgments We have benefited enormously from the many people who took time to share their thoughts with us about America’s future.

Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
by Benjamin Barber
Published 20 Apr 2010

On its fiftieth birthday, the World Bank (aka, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) is vowing to do better on environmentalism at least. In its 1994 statement “Embracing the Future,” it claims to be as interested in human development programs and the environment as in pure economic development and markets. See Thomas L. Friedman, “World Bank at 50, Vows to Do Better,” The New York Times, July 24, 1994, p. A 4. 16. Kuttner, End of Laissez-Faire, p.24. 17. Thomas L. Friedman, “When Money Talks,” The New York Times, July 24, 1994, p. E 3. 18. Advertisement for “The Czech Republic,” The New York Times, January 7, 1994, p. 6. 19. Holmes, “Drawing Board.” 20. Walter B. Wriston, Twilight of Sovereignty (New York: Scribner’s, 1992), p. 12. 21.

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Andrews, the Clinton administration wants only to avoid doing anything “to spook investors with heavy-handed regulatory brow-beating,” hoping rather to reduce “the regulatory barriers that have prevented competition.” Edmund L. Andrews, “New Tack on Technology,” The New York Times, January 12, 1994, p. A 1. At the end of the 1994 congressional session, a Communications Bill that would have imposed some controls on the information superhighway expired quietly. 5. Rohatyn cited by Thomas L. Friedman, “When Money Talks, Governments Listen,” The New York Times, July 24, 1994, p. E 3. 6. Steiner writes that the new Eastern European democratic revolutions of recent years were not “inebriate with some abstract passion for freedom, for social justice.” Consumer culture, “video cassettes, porno cassettes, American-style cosmetics and fast foods, not editions of Mill, Tocqueville or Solzhenitsyn, were the prizes snatched from every West[ern] shelf by the liberated.”

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But what this seems to mean is not that democracy survives, but that its idealistic possibilities (associated with socialism as a noble theory) have in practice vanished along with socialism. Michnik, “‘More Humility, Fewer Illusions’—A Talk Between Adam Michnik and Juergen Habermas,” The New York Review of Books, March 24, 1994, p. 24. 7. Thomas L. Friedman, “A Peace Deal Today Really Is a Bargain,” The New York Times, September 11, 1994, Section 4, p. 1. 8. Quoted by Vance Packard in his early classic on consumption, The Waste Makers (New York: David McKay, 1960), and cited again by Alan Durning in his excellent study for the Worldwatch Institute called How Much Is Enough: The Consumer Society and the Future of Earth (New York: W.

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Published 7 Jan 2020

Binding this consensus together and lending it some appearance of plausibility was technopoly—a worship of technology, the deification of technique, and the conviction that problems in any sphere of human existence will ultimately yield to a technological solution.2 Superpower, Super-Stories “I am a big believer in the idea of the super-story, the notion that we all carry around with us a big lens, a big framework, through which we look at the world, order events, and decide what is important and what is not.” So wrote New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in the prologue to a 2002 compendium of his columns.3 Friedman had made a career, and a good one at that, out of flogging one super-story after another. That he enjoyed success in doing so stemmed in part from his talents as a troubadour of power, but also from the fact that the years following the end of the Cold War were particularly accommodating to big lens/big framework theories purporting to divine the future.

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Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, War and Peace in the Global Village (New York, 1968), 12. 6. William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (New Haven, Connecticut, 1879 [rpt. 1919]), 215. 7. On the former, see Alfred W. Crosby Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, Connecticut, 1972). 8. Thomas L. Friedman, “A Manifesto for a Fast World,” New York Times Magazine (March 28, 1999). 9. Alan Tooze, “Beyond the Crash,” Guardian (July 29, 2018). 10. Benjamin R. Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld,” Atlantic (March 1992). 11. Between 1988 and 2001, annual U.S. military spending in constant dollars decreased from $587 billion to $418 billion. https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/Milex-constant-2015-USD.pdf, accessed August 26, 2017. 12.

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“Money Raised as of December 31,” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/campaign-finance/, accessed September 11, 2018; Alan Yuhas, “Trump Campaign Doubles Spending but Staff Is a Tenth the Size of Clinton’s,” Guardian (August 21, 2016); John Hudson, “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Massive Foreign-Policy Brain Trust,” Foreign Policy (February 10, 2016); “Read Hillary Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Remarks About Donald Trump Supporters,” Time (September 10, 2016). 50. Tom Engelhardt, “Has the American Age of Decline Begun?,” TomDispatch (April 26, 2016). 8. ATTENDING TO RABBIT’S QUESTION 1. Thomas L. Friedman, “Homeless in America,” New York Times (November 8, 2016). 2. Maureen Dowd, “Absorbing the Impossible,” New York Times (November 9, 2016). 3. Gail Collins, “Ten-Step Program for Adjusting to President-Elect Trump,” New York Times (November 9, 2016). 4. Frank Bruni, “Trump’s Shocking Success,” New York Times (November 9, 2016). 5.

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published 22 Nov 2016

World Trade Center World Trade Organization worldview; see also Machine, the World War I World War II World Wide Web; search engines and World Wildlife Fund “wound collectors” Wujec, Tom X (Google research lab) Xerox PARC research center Y2K Yahoo Yassin, Israa Yaun, David Years of Living Dangerously (TV show) Yelp Yemen Yeni Medya (New Media Inc.) Yeo, George Yildiz, Sadik YouTube; advertising/ISIS video controversy and Zambrano, Patricio Zedillo, Ernesto Zelle, Charlie Zika virus ALSO BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) Longitudes and Attitudes (2002) The World Is Flat (2005) Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008) That Used to Be Us (with Michael Mandelbaum, 2011) A Note About the Author Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times and is the author of six bestselling books, including The World Is Flat. You can sign up for email updates here.

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Mother Nature as Political Mentor 11. Is God in Cyberspace? 12. Always Looking for Minnesota 13. You Can Go Home Again (and You Should!) PART IV: ANCHORING 14. From Minnesota to the World and Back Acknowledgments Index Also by Thomas L. Friedman A Note About the Author Copyright Farrar, Straus and Giroux 18 West 18th Street, New York 10011 Copyright © 2016 by Thomas L. Friedman All rights reserved First edition, 2016 Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint the following material: Excerpts from “They’re in the Room Where It Happens” from The New York Times, December 29, 2015 © 2015 The New York Times.

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All I know is that since becoming a reporter in 1978, I have spent a lot of my career covering the difference between peoples, societies, leaders, and cultures focused on learning from “the other”—to catch up after falling behind—and those who feel humiliated by “the other,” by their contact with strangers, and lash out rather than engage in the hard work of adaptation. This theme has so permeated my reporting that I have been tempted at times to change my business card to read: “Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Global Humiliation Correspondent.” There is a simple but well-known golf story that carries a deep truth about how cultural dispositions shape attitudes toward adaptation. In the September 2012 issue of Golf Digest, Mark Long and Nick Seitz wrote a story called “Caddie Chatter,” in which Long related the following story told by Tom Watson’s longtime caddie Bruce Edwards.

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle
Published 14 Oct 2022

Bush (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021); Peter Baker, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (New York: Doubleday, 2013). 37.Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 5; see also Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Random House, 1999). 38.Thomas L. Friedman, “Three Cheers for Pluralism over Separatism,” New York Times, September 20, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-three-cheers-for-pluralism-over-separatism.html, accessed August 31, 2021. 39.Gary Gerstle, “Minorities, Multiculturalism, and the Presidency of George W.

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It was the only way, he argued, to break the “Arab-Muslim” world’s attachment to terror and to its twin, a closed society, and to convey to inhabitants of that world that the West was serious about protecting its open, pluralistic society. Friedman believed he was ventriloquizing Bush, saying what Bush would not, because “the Bush team never dared to spell out the real reason for the war.” Thomas L. Friedman, “Because We Could,” New York Times, June 4, 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/04/opinion/because-we-could.html, accessed July 28, 2021. 45.George W. Bush, “President’s Remarks at the 2004 Republican National Convention,” September 2, 2004, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040902-2.html, accessed September 1, 2021. 46.Thomas J.

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
by Juliet B. Schor
Published 12 May 2010

A classic example is creating an energy-efficient workplace that uses natural light and heat, which not only slashes energy costs and emissions, but also improves labor productivity, lowers manufacturing outlays, and makes employees happier. The initial investment more than pays for itself. Under these conditions, going green raises income and well-being. Some, such as the journalist Thomas L. Friedman, are looking to clean tech to invigorate the U.S. economy by propelling the next round of growth. There’s no debate about the need to produce differently. And nearly everyone agrees we need to price carbon. But will this be enough? Not surprisingly, most of the political action on climate has so far been directed at technology.

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But the effects are considerable. One study from the United Kingdom found a 26 percent rebound; other methods yield higher numbers. Some analysts believe energy is particularly potent in boosting profits and economic growth. This is precisely the argument that some of the most ardent green energy technologists such as Thomas L. Friedman are using to promote vigorous action to combat climate change. The U.S. experience over the last few decades is an object lesson in the perils of rebounds. Since 1975, the country has made substantial progress in improving energy efficiency. Energy expended per dollar of GDP has been cut in half.

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Per capita incomes, corrected for purchasing power parity, are from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (2008). 63 Privatization . . . threatens equitable solutions: Barlow (2002). 63 the number of people living in water-stressed areas may increase dramatically: Bates et al. (2008), figure 3.3 and p. 45. 63 The water footprint shows how much: Water footprints are from Hoekstra and Chapagain (2007). 64 2,000 liters of water to produce one T-shirt: Global averages for products and water footprint data are from Hoekstra and Chapagain (2007), table 2 (p. 41) and table 3 (p. 42) respectively. 65 Now we’ve got twin crises: Thomas L. Friedman connected the two crises in a New York Times column entitled “Mother Nature’s Dow,” on March 28, 2009. CHAPTER 3 68 most rejected the need for vigorous collective action on climate: Geoffrey Heal, another leading environmental economist, makes this point in his review of the economics of climate change.

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
by Robert McCrum
Published 24 May 2010

See also Nury Vittachi, Mr Wong Goes West (Crows Nest, NSW, 2008). 7 ‘a kind of global-hegemonic post-clerical Latin’: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London, 1983), p. 207. 8 Microsoft at their Bangalore headquarters: Evan Osnos, ‘Letter from China’, New Yorker, 28 April 2008. 8 ‘gives all its members a chance to speak’: Abley, The Prodigal Tongue, p. 2. 9 debates surrounding Magna Carta: I thank Philippe Sands for this important insight into the law lords’ deliberations. 10 Bollywood English: Dominic Rushe, Sunday Times Magazine, 15 June 2008. 11 ‘I was recently waiting’: Ben MacIntyre, The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue (London, 2009), p. 239. 12 ‘the worldwide dialect of the third millennium’: Robert McCrum, ‘The Globish Revolution’, Observer, Review, 3 December 2006. 12 the linguistic default position: see Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: The Globalised World in the Twenty-First Century (London, 2005). 12 Alan Rusbridger recently codified: the full list is as follows: There is no such thing as Abroad. Most of our readers are ‘foreign’. They expect us to inform them about their own countries. Their decisions will affect us.

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Chapter 13: ‘The World At Your Fingertips’ 226 ‘the process whereby American girls turn into American women’: Christopher Hampton, Savages (London, 1974), scene 16, p. 75. 226 In 1959 Alistair Cooke complained: Alistair Cooke, America Observed (New York, 1988), p. 120. 227 Many legislators were alarmed: Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, The Story of French (Toronto, 2007), p. 409. 228 ‘Les angleglottes’, declared the petitioners: Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (London, 2007), p. 761. 228 ‘a miserable time in Brussels’: author interview with MEP Charles Tannock. 228 ‘British interpreters are now so rare in Brussels’: The Times, 15 February 2009. 229 a complex adolescent mixture: Judt, Postwar, p. 758. 230 farcical interludes, like the Parsley Crisis: Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (London, 2008), p. 215. 231 ‘Our souls and our blood are sacrifices’: ibid., p. 216. 232 The Berlin Wall began to crumble: Judt, Postwar, p. 614. 232 ‘If I celebrate the fall of the Wall’: quoted in Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (London, 2005), p. 53. 232 In the next two decades: Zakaria, The Post-American World, p. 20. 234 ‘the Internet boom triggered’: Michael Lewis, The New New Thing (New York,1999), p. 2 235 called it ‘an abstract’: quoted in Friedman, op. cit., p. 60 235 Two weeks after Netscape: see Michael Lewis, The New New Thing (New York, 1999). 235 the next Californian Gold Rush: see John Naughton, A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet (London, 1999). 235 ‘a whole new global platform for collaboration’: Friedman, The World is Flat, p. 91. 237 Anglophile Latin Americans: Allen Guttmann, Sports: The First Five Millennia (Amherst, Mass., 2004). 237 the Superbowl and the World Cup: Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World (London, 2004). 237 The international dimension is comparatively new: David Goldblatt, The Ball is Round, (London, 2006), p. 681. 238 a dreadful anthem: David Goldblatt, The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football (London, 2006), p. 840. 239 ‘You like muffin?’

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Peter de Bolla, The Fourth of July and the Founding of America (London, 2007). J. L. Dillard, Black English (New York, 1973). J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World (New Haven, 2006). Stuart Berg Flexner, I Hear America Talking (New York, 1976). Graham Fraser, Sorry, I Don’t Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis that Won’t Go Away (Toronto, 2006). Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: The Globalised World in the Twenty–First Century (London, 2005). Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (London, 1984). Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford, 1975). John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War (London, 2005). Rob Gifford, China Road (London, 2007).

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Published 1 Oct 2007

Norton, 1983), pp. 109, 112. 28 Borzou Daragahi, “Iraqis Find Rare Unity in Condemning Israel,” Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2006. 29 Edward Wong and Michael Slackman, “Iraqi Denounces Israel’s Actions,” New York Times, 20 July 2006. 30 Edward Epstein, “Iraqi Leader Addresses Congress, His Country,” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 July 2006. 31 See, for example, Thomas L. Friedman, “Time for Plan B,” New York Times, 4 August 2006. 32 David E. Sanger, “An Old Presidential Predicament: China Proves Tough to Influence,” New York Times, 21 April 2006; Joseph Kahn, “In Hu’s Visit to the U.S., Small Gaffes May Overshadow Small Gains,” New York Times, 22 April 2006. 33 Agence France-Presse, “Hu Ends US Tour Marked by Lack of Accords and Embarrassment,” 22 April 2006. 34 William Kristol, “It’s Our War: Bush Should Go to Jerusalem—and the U.S.

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See polling by Latinobarómetro, December 2006. Danna Harman, “A Castro Ally with Oil Cash Vexes the US,” Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2005. 13 Richard Lapper and Hal Weitzman, “Chavez Casts a Long Anti-American Shadow Over Regional Capitals,” Financial Times (London), 3 May 2006. 14 Ibid. 15 Thomas L. Friedman, “Fill ’Er Up with Dictators,” New York Times, 27 September 2006. 16 Adam Thomson, “US Warns Nicaraguans Not to Back Sandinista,” Financial Times (London), 15 September 2006. 17 For details, see The State of Working America, issued biannually by the Economic Policy Institute and published by Cornell University Press. 18 Randeep Ramesh, “A Tale of Two Indias,” Guardian (London). 19 P.

The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Published 3 Feb 1997

Lane's formulation of an old dilemma. 79 As the price paid for protection becomes subject "to the principle of substitution," this will lay bare the arithmetic of compulsion, intensifying conflict between the new cosmopolitan elite of the Information Age and "the information poor," the remainder of the population who are largely monoglot and do not excel in problem-solving or possess some globally marketable skill. These "losers" or "leftbehinds," as Thomas L. Friedman describes them, will no doubt continue to identify their wellbeing with the political life of existing nationstates. 80 MOST POLITICAL AGENDAS WILL BE REACTIONARY Most of those who harbor an ardent political agenda, whether nationalist, environmentalist, or socialist, will rally to defend the wobbling nationstate as the twenty-first century opens.

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The history of Western civilization is a record of restless change in which people and prosperity have repeatedly migrated to new areas of opportunity under the spur of meandering megapolitical conditions. A thousandfold difference in bottom-line returns would match the most potent stimulus that has ever put rational people in motion. Or put another way, most people, particularly those Thomas L. Friedman calls the "losers and leftbehinds," if given a chance, would gladly leave any nationstate for $50 million, not to mention the still greater costs that nationstates impose in tax extracted from the top 1 percent of taxpayers. The rise of Sovereign Individuals shopping for jurisdictions is therefore one of the surest forecasts one can make.

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So what is happening in Turkey is much more complicated than just a fundamentalist takeover. It is what happens when widening globalization spins off more and more losers, when widening democratization gives them all a vote, while religious parties effectively exploit this coincidence to take power"87 THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Who will the losers be in the Information Age? In general terms, the tax consumers will be losers. It is usually they who could not increase their wealth by moving to another jurisdiction. Much of their income is lodged in the rules of a national political jurisdiction rather than conveyed by market valuations.

From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published 1 Jan 1989

The Torah commands that a sabbatical year be observed every seven years in Israel, during which time all agriculture should be suspended and the land be allowed to lie fallow. Haggai Segal, Dear Brothers: The West Bank Jewish Underground (Beit-Shamai Publications, Inc., 1988). Copyright © 1989 by Thomas L. Friedman Epilogue copyright © 1990 by Thomas L. Friedman ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION: AUGUST 1990 AN ANCHOR BOOK PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10103 ANCHOR BOOKS, DOUBLEDAY, and the portrayal of an anchor are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

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Lord knows, what she put up with could also fill a book. Without her friendship and strength (and editing) I never would have made it. My daughters, Orly and Natalie, had to get by with an absent father for too long as this book was in progress. I only hope when they grow old enough to read it, they will appreciate why. Thomas L. Friedman Washington, D. C. March 1989 Index The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages of your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

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Strosman, Uri Summerland Hotel Sunday Times (London) Suro, Roberto Surviving the Siege of Beirut (Mikdadi) Switzerland Syria Today (Hureau) Tabbara, Nabil Tadmur Prison Taibe Tannir, Hassan Tannous, Ibrahim Taqtouq, Awad Tawil, Amal Tehiya Party Tel Aviv Tel Aviv University Tehran Temko, Ned This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Borowski) Tikrit Tikriti, Saddam Hussein al- Time Times Herald (Dallas) Tira Treblinka death camp Tripoli Trudeau, Garry Tsabag, Gabrielle Rabin Tsimhe, Shimon Tueni, Ghassan Tufayli, Subhi al- Tulkarm Twain, Mark 20 Years of Civil Administration Two Fingers from Sidon Tyre United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) UPI Television News Valéry, Paul van Buren, Paul Van Huss, Ernest Vanity Fair Virginia Vogue Voice of America Voice of Israel Voice of Peace Wadi Ara Wahidi, Zuhni Yusef al- Waite, Terry Waiting for Godot (Beckett) Waldman, Eliezer Wall, Harry Walters, Barbara Washington Post, The Washington Star, The Wayne, John Wazir, Khalil al- (Abu Jihad) Wazzan, Shafik al- Wehr, Hans Weiman-Kelman, Levi Weinberg, Rose Weinberger, Caspar Weizman, Ezer Weizmann, Chaim West Bank West Bank Data Base Project Whitney, Craig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wright, Robin Yaacoby, Itzik Ya’acov Gilad Ya’ari, Ehud Yacoub, Nabil Yacoub, Vicky Yad Vashem Yaron, Amos Yarze Yediot Achronot Yehoshua, A. B. Yisrael, Lieutenant Colonel Yom Hazikaron Yosef, Ovadia Yunis (bartender) Zamir, David Zamir, Yitzhak Zaroubi, Elizabeth Zenian, David Zucchino, Adrien Zucchino, David About the Author Thomas L. Friedman was born in Minneapolis in 1953. He graduated from Brandeis University to study on a Marshall Scholarship at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, earning his M.Phil. in Modern Middle East Studies in 1978. From 1979 until 1981, Friedman was United Press International’s Beirut correspondent. In 1982, he became the New York Times Beirut bureau chief, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his coverage of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer
Published 31 Aug 2017

Knopf, 1997), 465. “hated for the Post or its writers to look as though they were”: David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (Knopf, 1975), 188. “Even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation”: Jeff Bezos, Letter to Amazon shareholders, 2011. “I see the elimination of gatekeepers everywhere”: Thomas L. Friedman, “Do You Want the Good News First?,” New York Times, May 19, 2012. “The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower”: Bezos, Letter, 2011. “Take a look at the Kindle bestseller list, and compare it”: Bezos, Letter to shareholders, 2011. “Our touchstone will be readers”: Jeff Bezos, “Jeff Bezos on Post Purchase,” Washington Post, August 5, 2013.

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some of the organizations that Lessig created to advance his arguments received checks from Google: Robert Levine, Free Ride (Doubleday, 2011), 84. “Amateurs are sometimes separated from professionals by skill”: Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus (Penguin, 2010), 82. “No one can succeed by themselves. . . . The only way you can achieve something”: Thomas L. Friedman, “Collaborate vs. Collaborate,” New York Times, January 12, 2013. “God alone creates”: Thomas Aquinas, Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, vol. 1, ed. Anton C. Pegis (Random House, 1945), 312. Once a writer sold a manuscript, he surrendered control over it: Mark Rose, Authors and Owners (Harvard University Press, 1993), 18.

Propaganda and the Public Mind
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Published 31 Mar 2015

Anthony Arnove (Cambridge: South End Press; London: Pluto Press, 2000), pp. 47-56. 2. David Prost, interview with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, “Sizing Up Iraq,” USA Today, March 27, 1991, p. 11A. See also Russell Watson et al., “The Gulf: After the War,” Newsweek, April 8, 1991, pp. 18ff. 3. Thomas L. Friedman, “A Rising Sense That Iraq’s Hussein Must Go,” New York Times, July 7, 1991, p. 4:1. 4. Associated Press, “US General Criticizes Policy on Destabilizing Hussein,” Boston Globe, January 29, 1999, p. A17, and Philip Shenon, “U.S. General Warns of Dangers of Trying to Topple Iraqi,” New York Times, January 29, 1999, p.

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Susan Strange, Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), p. 127. 3. See the articles on-line at http:/ /www.twnside.org.sg/unctad.htm and http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/ focusIS.htm. 4. Martin Wolf, “The Curse of Global Inequality,” Financial Times, January 26, 2000, p. 23. 5. Thomas L. Friedman, “Senseless in Seattle,” New York Times, December 1, 1999, p. A23. 6. Doug Henwood, “Miscellany,” Left Business Observer 91 (August 31, 1999), p. 8. See also http:/ /www.panix.com /-dhenwood /Gini_supplement.html and http://www.panix.com/-dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html. 7. Patricia Adams, Odious Debts: Loose Lending.

The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen
Published 5 Jan 2015

op=1. 9 Anisse Gross, “A New Private Club in San Francisco, and an Old Diversity Challenge,” New Yorker, October 9, 2013. 10 Timothy Egan, “Dystopia by the Bay,” New York Times, December 5, 2013. 11 David Runciman, “Politics or Technology—Which Will Save the World?,” Guardian, May 23, 2014. 12 John Lanchester, “The Snowden Files: Why the British Public Should Be Worried About GCHQ,” Guardian, October 3, 2013. 13 Thomas L. Friedman, “A Theory of Everything (Sort Of),” New York Times, August 13, 2011. 14 Saul Klein, “Memo to boards: the internet is staying,” Financial Times, August 5, 2014. 15 Mark Lilla, “The Truth About Our Libertarian Age,” New Republic, June 17, 2014. 16 Craig Smith, “By the Numbers: 30 Amazing Reddit Statistics,” expandedramblings.com, February 26, 2014. 17 Alexis Ohanian, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed (New York: Grand Central, 2013). 18 Alexis C.

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,” BBC Capital, May 1, 2014. 111 Ryan Lawler, “Airbnb Tops 10 Million Guest Stays Since Launch, Now Has 550,000 Properties Listed Worldwide,” TechCrunch, December 19, 2013. 112 Sydney Ember, “Airbnb’s Huge Valuation,” New York Times, April 21, 2014. See also Carolyn Said, “Airbnb’s Swank Digs Reflect Growth, but Controversy Grows,” SFGate, January 27, 2014. 113 Thomas L. Friedman, “And Now for a Bit of Good News . . .” New York Times, July 19, 2014. 114 Will Oremus, “Silicon Valley Uber Alles,” Slate, June 6, 2014. 115 See Dan Amira, “Uber Will Ferry Hampton-Goers Via Helicopter This July 3rd,” New York, July 2013, nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/uber-helicopter-uberchopper-hamptons-july-3rd.html. 116 Jessica Guynn, “San Francisco Split by Silicon Valley’s Wealth,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2013. 117 Paul Sloan, “Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and Beyond),” CNET, December 19, 2011, news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57345138-93/marc-andreessen-predictions-for-2012-and-beyond. 118 Mark Scott, “Traffic Snarls in Europe as Taxi Drivers Protest Against Uber,” New York Times, June 11, 2014. 119 Kevin Roose, “Uber Might Be More Valuable than Facebook Someday.

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
by Paolo Gerbaudo
Published 19 Jul 2018

According to Mair and his colleague Richard Katz, political parties were prey to a ‘de-alignment’, whereby ‘long-term societal changes have at least partially undermined the political and cognitive basis of party identification in advanced industrial democracies’.19 To this sociology of extreme complexity, fragmentation and class dis-identification added the perception that in a globalised world the party would lose power for a rather obvious reason: because the nation-state, its traditional target of conquest and space of operation, was losing power in favour of global and unelected governance institutions. On the left, autonomist Marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt described (and welcomed) the shift from nation-states to a global empire,20 while on the neoliberal front New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman waxed lyrical about the inevitable victory of globalisation over nations.21 With the nation-state losing power, the political party seemed to be condemned to growing irrelevance. This condition seemed to favour other types of collective organisations operating transnationally and focusing on single issues, such as social movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

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Manuel Castells, The rise of the network society, Vol. 12 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2011). 19. Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair, ‘Changing models of party organization and party democracy: the emergence of the cartel party’, Party Politics 1, no.1 (1995): 5–28, p.23. 20. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). 21. Thomas L. Friedman, The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century (New York: Macmillan, 2005). 22. Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair, eds, How parties organize: change and adaptation in party organizations in Western democracies (London; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994), p.3. 23. P.C. Schmitter, ‘Intermediaries in the consolidation of neo-democracies: the role of parties, associations and movements.’

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria
Published 5 Oct 2020

Tucker, “Bioweapons from Russia: Stemming the Flow,” Issues in Science and Technology 15, no. 3 (Spring 1999), https://issues.org/p_tucker/, also referenced in Ord, The Precipice, 132. 24 “smaller budget than an average McDonald’s”: Ord, The Precipice, 132. 24 our world is terribly fragile: Thomas L. Friedman, “How We Broke the World,” New York Times, May 30, 2020. 26 140 million acres: Paula vW Dáil, Hard Living in America’s Heartland: Rural Poverty in the 21st Century Midwest (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), 80. 26 “pandemics are optional”: Larry Brilliant, “Outbreaks Are Inevitable, but Pandemics Are Optional,” Long Now Foundation, YouTube, March 6, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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Clinton, “Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act,” December 8, 1993, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1993, Book II), https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PPP-1993-book2/html/PPP-1993-book2-doc-pg2139-3.htm. 63 “golden straitjacket”: Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). 64 fastest-growing major economy in history: Congressional Research Service, “China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States,” June 25, 2019, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33534.pdf. 64 “Market-Leninism”: Nicholas Kristof, “China Sees ‘Market-Leninism’ as Way to Future,” New York Times, September 6, 1993. 64 like steel: World Steel Association, “World Steel in Figures 2019,” https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:96d7a585-e6b2-4d63-b943-4cd9ab621a91/World%2520Steel%2520in%2520Figures%25202019.pdf. 64 cement: US Geological Survey, “Mineral Commodity Summaries,” https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/mineral-commodity-summaries. 65 accidentally told the truth: Attributed to journalist Michael Kinsley.

The Rights of the People
by David K. Shipler
Published 18 Apr 2011

We have grown so numb to the indignities of airport searches that we shamelessly whip off our belts and jackets and shoes, allow strangers to pat our bodies and paw through our toiletries, flash picture IDs at the least provocation, and even parade through a growing number of scanners that render us naked on-screen. Protests by angry travelers have fizzled; helplessness prevails. “I’m thinking of starting my own airline, which would be called: Naked Air,” the columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote in December 2001. “Its motto would be: ‘Everybody flies naked and nobody worries.’ Or ‘Naked Air—where the only thing you wear is a seat belt.’ ”3 As a real-life alternative, more than 260,000 travelers eagerly acquiesced to government background checks, fingerprinting, and iris scans (and paid about $200 a year) just to get into express lanes and save a few minutes at airport security with the Clear card from Verified Identity Pass—before the company suddenly went out of business.4 Where the Fourth Amendment still applies—as in personal searches—authorities extract preemptive consent in exchange for entry, not only at airports and courthouses but even on Maine State ferries, which have been adorned with signs reading, “Boarding This Vessel Is Deemed Valid Consent to Screening or Inspection” and “All Persons and Vehicles Aboard This Vessel Are Subject to Electronic Monitoring/Surveillance.”

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While we stay alert by imagining the worst scenarios of terrorism, we might also imagine the sacrifice of our liberties on the altar of security. We face both threats—the risk of being attacked and “the risk of being less free,” in Hamilton’s words. The first step toward preventing either tragedy is vigilance. EPILOGUE The High Court of History We are the people of July 4th—not September 11th. —Thomas L. Friedman IN SEARCH OF a shocking metaphor, critics of American policies after 9/11 reached for a Soviet analogy. Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize—winning playwright, lamented the millions of Americans “imprisoned in the vast gulag of prisons which extends across the U.S.” The University of California Press in 2004 published American Gulag, a book on immigration prisons by Mark Dow.

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Bush, speech at the Alfalfa Club, Jan. 2006, quoted by Michael Gawenda, The Age, Jan. 31, 2006. CHAPTER 7: THE RIGHT TO BE LET ALONE 1. Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928). 2. Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967). From Harlan’s concurring opinion. Stewart framed the concept more generally in his majority opinion. 3. Thomas L. Friedman, “Naked Air,” New York Times, Dec. 26, 2001, p. A29. 4. Jonathan Starkey, “Quick Airport Screening Service Shuts Down,” Washington Post, June 24, 2009. Several other companies made bids to buy the customer lists and revive the program. 5. Katie Hafner, “Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search,” New York Times, Jan. 25, 2006, p.

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
by Anatol Lieven
Published 3 May 2010

See Max Boot, "George W Bush: The 'W' Stands for Woodrow," Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2002; David Ignatius, "Wilsonian Course for War," Washington Post, August 30,2002; William Safire, "Post-Oslo Mideast,"'New York Times, June 27,2002; "Bush the Crusader," Christian Science Monitor editorial, August 30, 2002; for postwar justifications along these lines, see George Melloan, "Protecting Human Rights Is a Valid 236 N O T E S TO P A G E S 72-77 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. Foreign Policy Goal," Wall Street Journal, June 10,2003; Jim Hoagland, "Clarity: The Best Weapon," Washington Post, June 1, 2003; Thomas L. Friedman, "Because We Could," Washington Post, June 4, 2003. Truman quoted in Hunt, Ideology and American Foreign Policy, pp. 157,163. See Bernard Fall, The Two Vietnams (New York: Praeger, 1964). Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, pp. 81,111-119, 154. For a fuller exposition of the lessons of the Cold War for contemporary policy, see Anatol Lieven, Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from the Cold War, Policy Brief no. 7, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2001.

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Cf. the extraordinarily bitter and mendacious attack on France by Frum and Perle in An End to Evil, pp. 238-253; and "David Frum's Diary," National Review Online, February 19 and March 11, 2003. For French reporting of these charges, see for example Denis Lacorne, "Les dessous de lafrancophobie" Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris), February 27- March 5, 2003. 84. Thomas L. Friedman, "Our War with France," New York Times, September 18, 2003; Justin Vaisse, "Bringing Out the Animal in Us," Financial Times, March 15,2003. For a rare acknowledgment of the rationality of French objections to the Iraq War and their roots in the disastrous French experience in Algeria, see Paul Starobin, "The French Were Right," National Journal, November 7, 2003. 85.

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Croly, Promise of American Life, p. 75; for a kind of distillation of the Israeli lobby's presentation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—with no mention either of the expulsions of 1948 or of any Israeli atrocity—see Phyllis Chesler, "A Brief History of Arab Attacks Against Israel, 1908-1970s," in her New Anti-Semitism, pp. 44-52. Cf. Michael Lind, "The Israel Lobby," Prospect magazine (London), April 2002. Arnaud de Bochgrave, "Democracy in the Middle East," Washington Times, March 5, 2004. Cf. Thomas L. Friedman, "An Intriguing Signal from the Saudi Crown Prince," New York Times, February 17, 2002; editorial, "A Peace Impulse Worth Pursuing," New York Times, February 21,2002; editorial, "Support for the Saudi Initiative," New York Times, February 28, 2002. Cf. "Israel and the Occupied Territories: Country Report on Human Rights Practices— 2003," released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S.

The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
by Virginia Postrel
Published 5 Nov 2013

Daniel Brook, “Head of the Dragon: The Rise of the New Shanghai,” Design Observer, February 18, 2013, http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-rise-of-new-shanghai/37674/. 10. China boosters often cite the skyline, “supersize buildings sprouting in Shanghai,” as evidence of its prosperity and success. Thomas L. Friedman, “China: Scapegoat or Sputnik,” New York Times, November 10, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/opinion/10friedman.html. (See also Thomas L. Friedman, “A Biblical Seven Years,” New York Times, August 27, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/opinion/27friedman.html.) But as Daniel Brook and many others have noted, the glamorous Pudong skyline is not what it seems.

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
by Nesrine Malik
Published 4 Sep 2019

(The New Republic, 28 June 2004), https://newrepublic.com/article/67651/were-we-wrong [accessed on 25 July 2019] 208 ‘It is now obvious’: Thomas Friedman, ‘Time for Plan B’ (New York Times, 4 August 2006), https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/opinion/04friedman.html [accessed on 25 July 2019] 208 ‘Off the Island’: Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Vote France Off the Island’ (New York Times, 9 February 2003), https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/opinion/vote-france-off-the-island.html [accessed on 25 July 2019] 208 ‘I was Wrong on Iraq’: Fareed Zakaria, ‘Iraq war was a terrible mistake’ (CNN, 26 October 2015), https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/zakaria-iraq-war-lessons/index.html [accessed on 25 July 2019] 209 ‘Ten years after the war began’: David Aaronovitch, ‘Now we know why it was right to invade Iraq’ (The Times, 21 February 2013), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/now-we-know-why-it-was-right-to-invade-iraq-b9tsvq7l2xz [accessed on 25 July 2019] 209 ‘ten years on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid’: Nick Cohen, ‘Ten years on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid’ (Observer, 3 March 2013), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/10-years-right-invaded-iraq [accessed on 25 July 2019] 209 ‘“Arab Spring” from “the top down”’: Thomas L.

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Friedman, ‘Vote France Off the Island’ (New York Times, 9 February 2003), https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/opinion/vote-france-off-the-island.html [accessed on 25 July 2019] 208 ‘I was Wrong on Iraq’: Fareed Zakaria, ‘Iraq war was a terrible mistake’ (CNN, 26 October 2015), https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/zakaria-iraq-war-lessons/index.html [accessed on 25 July 2019] 209 ‘Ten years after the war began’: David Aaronovitch, ‘Now we know why it was right to invade Iraq’ (The Times, 21 February 2013), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/now-we-know-why-it-was-right-to-invade-iraq-b9tsvq7l2xz [accessed on 25 July 2019] 209 ‘ten years on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid’: Nick Cohen, ‘Ten years on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid’ (Observer, 3 March 2013), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/10-years-right-invaded-iraq [accessed on 25 July 2019] 209 ‘“Arab Spring” from “the top down”’: Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last’ (New York Times, 23 November 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/saudi-prince-mbs-arab-spring.html [accessed on 25 July 2019] 211 ‘The political class imparted as much to the media class’: Gary Younge, ‘We were told Corbyn was “unelectable”.

The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
by Dani Rodrik
Published 23 Dec 2010

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Finance Discussion Papers no. 390, November 1990. 7 Ruggie, “International Regimes,” p. 393. 8 Peter A. Hall and David W. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). 9 Thomas L. Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), captures the ethos of this era extremely well. 10 Susan Esserman and Robert Howse, “The WTO on Trial,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 82, no. 1 (January–February 2003), pp. 130–31. 11 The story of the U.S.

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With enough fiscal austerity, price deflation, and belt-tightening, the Argentine economy would have been able to service external debts and maintain financial market confidence. The question is whether this is a sensible way to run an economy. Is it reasonable, or even desirable, to expect that the political system will deliver these drastic measures when needed (that is, when times are already tough) just to satisfy foreign creditors? 4 Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Anchor Books, 2000), pp. 104–06. 5 In a famous decision issued in 1905 (Lochner v. New York), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York State law restricting the maximum hours of work for bakery employees. The New York statute was “an illegal interference,” the justices wrote, “with the right of individuals, both employers and employees, to make contracts regarding labor upon such terms as they may think best.”

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas
Published 27 Aug 2018

Thought leaders tend, Drezner says, to “know one big thing and believe that their important idea will change the world”; they are not skeptics but “true believers”; they are optimists, telling uplifting stories; they reason inductively from their own experiences more than deductively from authority. They go easy on the powerful. Susan Sontag, William F. Buckley Jr., and Gore Vidal were public intellectuals; Thomas L. Friedman, Niall Ferguson, and Parag Khanna are thought leaders. Public intellectuals argue with each other in the pages of books and magazines; thought leaders give TED talks that leave little space for criticism or rebuttal, and emphasize hopeful solutions over systemic change. Public intellectuals pose a genuine threat to winners; thought leaders promote the winners’ values, talking up “disruption, self-empowerment, and entrepreneurial ability.”

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It is not easy to build a career catering to these institutions while being as sure as Gladwell is that the cumulative effect of this catering, and of wanting to succeed rather than fail, does not affect you. “It’s got to be about what I write. Don’t criticize me for who I talk to,” the New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman once said, similarly insisting on his incorruptibility. Yet even if one were to take Friedman and Gladwell at their word about the effect of money on them as individuals, it is hard to accept the conclusion that the plutocratic funding of ideas has no effect on the marketplace of ideas as a whole.

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Published 2 Jul 2009

Nearly one-third of those in graduate programs in science and engineering in the United States are foreign students, many of whom return to their home countries, set up businesses, and surpass their American rivals. Other foreign-born graduates stay here, competing for jobs. This, in turn, has made science and engineering less attractive to American students. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote in his best-selling The World Is Flat, “The Indians and Chinese are not racing us to the bottom. They are racing us to the top—and that is a good thing.” Well, yes and no. It is a very good thing that globalization has to some degree redistributed the spoils of innovation and that India and China are supporting educational and technological advance and building human capital.

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Freeman, who was kind enough to speak with me at length on the topic of international labor markets. 211 surpass their American rivals: “Foreign Science and Engineering Graduate Students Returning to U.S. Colleges,” National Science Foundation press release, January 28, 2008. 211 “and that is a good thing”: Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 233. 212 “there is no strong labor response”: Richard B. Freeman, “Labor Market Imbalances: Shortages or Surpluses or Fish Stories,” delivered to the Boston Federal Reserve Economic Conference, “Global Imbalances—As Giants Evolve,” in Chatham, Massachusetts, June 14-16, 2006. 212 working conditions for the rest of us: Interview with Richard B.

The Case for Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
Published 31 Jul 2003

Itmar Marcus, Bulletin e-mail for Palestinian Media Watch, December 2, 2002. 32. James Bennet, “The Mideast Turmoil: Killer of 3; How 2 Took the Path of Suicide Bombers,” New York Times, May 30, 2003. 33. Statements made by Slaim Haga, a senior Hamas operative, and Ahmed Moughrabi, a Tanzim operative, May, 27, 2002. 34. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Core of Muslim Rage,” New York Times, March 6, 2002, quoted in Why Terrorism Works, pp. 89–90. 35. Atlanta Journal Constitution, www.ajc.com/ news/content/news/0603/10iraqdead. html, last visited June 11, 2003. CHAPTER 19 Does Israel Torture Palestinians? 1. “Uninteresting Terrorism and Insignificant Oppression,” All Things New, www. scmcanada.org/atn/atn95/atn952_p19. html. 2.

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Estimates vary as to the number of Palestinians killed during “Black September,” with some estimates as high as 4,000 (One Day in September, Sony Pictures, www.sonypictures.com/classics/oneday 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 257 /html/blacksept, last visited April 10, 2003), while others cite the figure of 3,000 (“Some Key Dates in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” www.umich.edu/~iinet/cmenas /studyunits/israeli-palestinian_conflict/studentkeydates.html, last visited April 10, 2003). Thomas L. Friedman, “Reeling but Ready,” New York Times, April 28, 2002. See poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research at Berzeit University, referred to in Jewish Week, April 18, 2003, p. 28. Beirut al Nassa, July 15, 1957. Chomsky, lecture, Harvard University, November 25, 2002. Michael Walzer, “The Four Wars of Israel/Palestine,” Dissent, Fall 2002.

Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
by Sharon Beder
Published 30 Sep 2006

BHP submission to ‘Employee Share Ownership in Australian Enterprises’, p4. Ibid., pp134–5. Aaron Bernstein, ‘Why ESOP Deals Have Slowed to a Crawl’, Business Week, 18 March 1996. Nadler, ‘The Rise of Worker Capitalism’, p4; Melloan, ‘Assessing the Pitfalls of People’s Capitalism’, pA15; Editorial, ‘Worker Capitalists’, pA26; Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, p52. Nadler, ‘Special (K)’; Margaret M. Blair and Douglas I. Kruse, ‘Worker Capitalists?’ The Brookings Review, Fall, 1999. John M. Templeton, ‘Plans Play Role in “People’s Capitalism”’, Pensions & Investment Age, vol 11, no 22, 1983.

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Some even visit schools, armed with videos and comic books aimed at an ever-younger audience.’62 Anne and Gerard Henderson from the Australian think tank the Sydney Institute claim that it was the shares in Telstra that their daughter bought, rather than parental guidance or her general education, that changed their daughter from someone who would have ‘gone with the flow against globalization’ to someone who is ‘interested in what happens in Wall Street because that affects her now’.63 NOTES 1 Richard Nadler, ‘Stocks Populi’, National Review, 9 March 1998. 2 Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, pp47–50. 3 Quoted in Thomas Frank, One Market under God: Extreme Capitalism Market 4 5 6 7 8 9 Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, New York, Doubleday, 2000, p91 and Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, p58.

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future
by Hal Niedzviecki
Published 15 Mar 2015

Pushes for More Scientists, but the Jobs Aren’t There,” The Washington Post, July 7, 2012, sec. National, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-pushes-for-more-scientists-but-the-jobs-arent-there/2012/07/07/gJQAZJpQUW_story_2.html. 38. Thomas L. Friedman, “How to Get a Job at Google,” The New York Times, February 22, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html. 39. Thomas L. Friedman, “How to Get a Job,” The New York Times, May 28, 2013, sec. Opinion, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/opinion/friedman-how-to-get-a-job.html. 40. Ibid. 41. Dan Schawbel, “Dale Stephens: Ditch College And Create Your Own Educational Experience,” Forbes, March 5, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/03/05/dale-stephens-ditch-college-and-create-your-own-educational-ex-perience/. 42.

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques
Published 12 Nov 2009

There is no precedent for the extent of the militarization of the US economy both during the Cold War and subsequently; Eric Hobsbawm, Globalisation, Democracy, and Terrorism (London: Little, Brown, 2007), p. 160. 29 . For an interesting discussion of the economic cost to the United States of its military expenditure, see Chalmers Johnson, ‘Why the US Has Really Gone Broke’, Le Monde diplomatique, February 2008. 30 . Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), pp. 309-22; Gerald Segal, ‘Globalisation Has Always Primarily Been a Process of Westernisation’, South China Morning Post, 17 November 1998. 31 . For a discussion on the fundamental importance of cultural difference in the era of globalization, see Stuart Hall, ‘A Different Light’, Lecture to Prince Claus Fund Conference, Rotterdam, 12 December 2001. 32 .

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Wilsdon and Keeley, China, pp. 30-31; Geoff Dyer, ‘How China is Rising Through the Innovation Ranks’, Financial Times, 5 January 2007; Shenkar, The Chinese Century, p. 74; Gittings, The Changing Face of China, p. 263. 107 . Suntech Power Holdings, for example, has grown big and successful as China’s leading maker of silicon photovoltaic solar cells; Thomas L. Friedman, ‘China’s Sunshine Boys’, International Herald Tribune, 7 December 2006. Also ‘China Climbs Technology Value Chain’, South China Morning Post, 30 March 2007; Victor Keegan, ‘Virtual China looks for Real Benefits’, Guardian, 1 November 2007; ‘High-tech-Hopefuls: A Special Report on Technology in India and China’, The Economist, 10 November 2007. 108 .

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Countries that are close competitors of China - like India, Indonesia and the Philippines - will probably still benefit, but they will find the prices of their major exports falling; while less developed countries which are not endowed with natural resources will find China’s continued growth having a relatively neutral economic effect at best. See World Bank, China Engaged: Integration with the Global Economy (Washington, DC: 1997), pp. 29-35. 167 . Kynge, China Shakes the World, pp. 118-20. 168 . Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Democrates and China’, International Herald Tribune , 11- 12 November 2006; ‘G7 Calls for Stronger Chinese Yuan’, posted on www.bbc.co.uk/news. 7 A CIVILIZATION-STATE 1 . James Mann, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression (New York: Viking, 2007), pp. 1-7. 2 .

The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz , Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt
Published 18 Oct 2000

Guzder, Chairman and Managing Director of Airfreight Limited, In- The Srouy of T^E Idea 299 dia; and Leo Purl, Principal at McKinsey & Company, the Indian branch of the global consulting firm. Back in the United States, we moved around the country to connect with key sources and crystallize our ideas. Of those people we spoke to on the East Coast, we are particularly grateful to several: Thomas L Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, who shared his insights on globalization on several occasions and read the manuscript, and Michael Porter, a professor at the Harvard Business School, whose generosity extended to reviewing and improving the manuscript. We are also indebted to Robert D.

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Holson, "The Deal Still Eules, Mania for Mergers Defines the Market," New York Times (February 14,1999), A10. CNftpTER 5 68 69 72 73 73 74 75 75 77 81 82 82 Michael Moynihan, The Coming American Renaissance, How to Benefit from America's Economic Resurgence (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Thomas L. Friedman, "A Manifesto for the Fast World," New York Times Magazine (March 28, 1999), 40-61. "The Next Politics," Blueprint, Ideas for a New Century, vol. 1 (Fall 1998) 1-70. This is a new quarterly published by the Democratic Leadership Council. "The New American Consensus," New York Times Magazine, Special Series (November 1, 1998), David S.

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
Published 26 Jun 2017

The History and Future of Workplace Automation,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no. 3 (2015): 3–30, http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.3.3. 101 “Do you think when my grandfather”: Brian Scott, “55 Years of Agricultural Evolution,” Farmer’s Life (blog), November 9, 2015, http://thefarmerslife.com/55-years-of-agricultural-evolution-in-john-deere-combines. 102 Kiva was bought by Amazon in 2012: John Letzing, “Amazon Adds That Robotic Touch,” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2012, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304724404577291903244796214. 103 When Gill Pratt was a program manager at DARPA: John Dzieza, “Behind the Scenes at the Final DARPA Robotics Challenge,” Verge, June 12, 2015, http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/12/8768871/darpa-robotics-challenge-2015-winners. 104 250 million tons: PlasticsEurope, “Plastics—the Facts 2014/2015: An Analysis of European Plastics Production, Demand and Waste Data,” 2015, http://www.plasticseurope.org/documents/document/20150227150049-final_plastics_the_facts_2014_2015_260215.pdf. 105 About thirty years ago: PlasticsEurope, “Automotive: The World Moves with Plastics,” 2013, http://www.plasticseurope.org/cust/documentrequest.aspx?DocID=58353. 105 For one thing, complexity would be free: Thomas L. Friedman, “When Complexity Is Free,” New York Times, September 14, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/friedman-when-complexity-is-free.html. 106 20%–35% faster: Guillaume Vansteenkiste, “Training: Laser Melting and Conformal Cooling,” PEP Centre Technique de la Plasturgie, accessed January 30, 2017, http://www.alplastics.net/Portals/0/Files/Summer%20school%20presentations/ALPlastics_Conformal_Cooling.pdf. 106 with greater quality: Eos, “[Tooling],” accessed January 30, 2017, https://www.eos.info/tooling. 106 3D-printed tumor model: Yu Zhao et al., “Three-Dimensional Printing of Hela Cells for Cervical Tumor Model in vitro,” Biofabrication 6, no. 3 (April 11, 2014), http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1758-5082/6/3/035001. 107 “I think additive manufacturing”: Carl Bass, interview by the authors, summer 2015.

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Schwartz, “The Economics (and Nostalgia) of Dead Malls,” New York Times, January 3, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/business/the-economics-and-nostalgia-of-dead-malls.html. 134 When General Growth Properties: Ilaina Jones and Emily Chasan, “General Growth Files Historic Real Estate Bankruptcy,” Reuters, April 16, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-generalgrowth-bankruptcy-idUSLG52607220090416. 134 $77 billion: Federal Communications Commission, “FCC Releases Statistics of the Long Distance Telecommunications Industry Report,” May 14, 2003, table 2, p. 9, year 2000 (interstate plus long distance combined), https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/ldrpt103.pdf. 134 $16 billion: Sarah Kahn, Wired Telecommunications Carriers in the US, IBISWorld Industry Report 51711c, December 2013, http://trace.lib.utk.edu/assets/Kuney/Fairpoint%20Communications/Research/Other/IBIS_51711C_Wired_Telecommunications_Carriers_in_the_US_industry_report.pdf. 135 By 2015, 44% of American adults: Business Wire, “GfK MRI: 44% of US Adults Live in Households with Cell Phones but No Landlines,” April 02, 2015, http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150402005790/en#.VR2B1JOPoyS. 135 $20 billion in 2000: Greg Johnson, “Ad Revenue Slides for Radio, Magazines,” Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2001, http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/09/business/fi-32280. 135 $14 billion in 2010: BIA/Kelsey, “BIA/Kelsey Reports Radio Industry Revenues Rose 5.4% to $14.1 Billion in 2010, Driven by Political Season and More Activity by National Advertisers,” PR Newswire, April 4, 2011, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/biakelsey-reports-radio-industry-revenues-rose-54-to-141-billion-in-2010-driven-by-political-season-and-more-activity-by-national-advertisers-119180284.html. 135 Clear Channel: Waldman, “Information Needs of Communities.” 135 “what happens when someone does something clever”: Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016), Kindle ed., loc. 414. 136 cost $0.02: Statistic Brain Research Institute, “Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage,” accessed January 31, 2017, http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-cost-of-hard-drive-storage. 136 $11 in 2000: Matthew Komorowski, “A History of Storage Cost,” last modified 2014, Mkomo.com. http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte. 137 “the death of distance”: Francis Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 138 computer programmer Craig Newmark: Craig Newmark, LinkedIn profile, accessed February 1, 2017, https://www.linkedin.com/in/craignewmark. 138 to let people list local events in the San Francisco area: Craigconnects, “Meet Craig,” accessed February 1, 2017, http://craigconnects.org/about. 138 700 local sites in seventy countries by 2014: Craigslist, “[About > Factsheet],” accessed February 1, 2017, https://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet. 138 estimated profits of $25 million: Henry Blodget, “Craigslist Valuation: $80 Million in 2008 Revenue, Worth $5 Billion,” Business Insider, April 3, 2008, http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/4/craigslist-valuation-80-million-in-2008-revenue-worth-5-billion. 138 charging fees for only a few categories of ads: Craigslist, “[About > Help > Posting Fees],” accessed February 1, 2017, https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/posting_fees. 139 over $5 billion between 2000 and 2007: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu, “Responses to Entry in Multi-sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers,” January 11, 2013, http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Programs/Economics/Course%20Schedules/Seminar%20Sp.2013/seamans_zhu_craigslist%281%29.pdf. 139 $22 billion of US marketers’ budgets: “More than Two-Thirds of US Digital Display Ad Spending Is Programmatic,” eMarketer, April 5, 2016, https://www.emarketer.com/Article/More-Than-Two-Thirds-of-US-Digital-Display-Ad-Spending-Programmatic/1013789#sthash.OQclVXY5.dpuf. 139 over 8,000 servers that, at peak times, can process 45 billion ad buys per day: “Microsoft and AppNexus: Publishing at Its Best (Selling),” AppNexus Impressionist (blog), November 3, 2015, http://blog.appnexus.com/2015/microsoft-and-appnexus-publishing-at-its-best-selling. 139 Belgian: Matthew Lasar, “Google v.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan
Published 18 Apr 2010

Assessing the Link Between Public Capital and Productivity,” American Economics Review, vol. 89, no. 3 (June 1999), pp. 619–38. 10. Jerry L. Jordan, “How to Keep Growing ‘New Economies,’” Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, August 15, 2000. 11. Barry Bearak, “In India, the Wheels of Justice Hardly Move,” New York Times, June 1, 2000. 12. Thomas L. Friedman, “I Love D.C.,” New York Times, November 7, 2000, p. A29. 13. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999). 14. Giacomo Balbinotto Neto, Ana Katarina Campelo, and Everton Nunes da Silva, “The Impact of Presumed Consent Law on Organ Donation: An Empirical Analysis from Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data,” Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Paper 050107–2 (2007).

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World Development Report 2008, World Bank (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). 3. William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001), p. 285. 4. World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets, World Bank, Oxford University Press, p. 3. 5. Thomas L. Friedman, “I Love D.C.,” New York Times, November 7, 2000, p. A29. 6. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, NBER Working Paper No. W7771 (National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2000). 7. Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, and Pablo Zoido-Lobatón, Governance Matters (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, October 1999). 8.

The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Published 22 Oct 2018

See Rahm Emanuel, “Chicago’s Plan to Match Education with Jobs,” Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2011, https://www.wsj.com/​articles/​SB1000142­40529702­03893404­57710077­2663276902; Thomas A. Hemphill and Mark J. Perry, “U.S. Manufacturing and the Skills Crisis,” Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2012, https://www.wsj.com/​articles/​SB100014­2405297­02048804­0457723­08706715­88412; Thomas L. Friedman, “If You’ve Got the Skills, She’s Got the Job,” op-ed, New York Times, November 17, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/​2012/​11/​18/​opinion/​sunday/​Friedman-You-Got-the-Skills.html. tests were routine at more than 80 percent of all US companies According to a survey conducted at the time by the American Management Association.

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a good head for numbers and strong customer service skills See, for example, J. W. Carpenter, “Bank Teller: Career Path and Qualifications,” Investopedia, last modified December 16, 2015, http://www.investopedia.com/​articles/​professionals/​121615/​bank-teller-career-path-qualifi­cations.asp. new, higher-skilled jobs that pay better See, for example, Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times, has used the example of cash machines repeatedly to make the point that automation can create jobs. But while it is true that in the 1990s ATMs led to an increase in the number of bank branches, and therefore opportunities for people to work in those new branches, additional new technologies have since led to a radical decline in both bank branches and their associated jobs.

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Published 4 Oct 2005

Ralph Atkins et al., Financial Times, 22 November 2004. 13. For details, see Roger Morris, New York Times, 14 March 2003; and Said K. Aburish, Saddam Hussein (Bloomsbury, 2000). 14. Reginald Dale, Financial Times, 1 March 1982. See also Reginald Dale, Financial Times, 28 November 1984. 15. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, 14 May 2003. 16. See Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege, updated ed. (South End Press, 2002); and John Mueller and Karl Mueller, Foreign Affairs 78, no. 3 (May-June 1999). 17. Les Roberts et al., The Lancet 364, no. 9448 (20 November 2004). See also the comment on the report by Richard Horton, The Lancet 364, no. 9448. 18.

Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Published 16 Sep 2006

Corruption would occur even if there were not safe havens to which the money can go, and in which the corrupt can sustain their lifestyle after their wrongdoing has been discovered; but secret bank accounts make it easier. MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK—FOR MORE PEOPLE In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman says that globalization and technology have flattened the world, creating a level playing field in which developed and less developed countries can compete on equal terms.32 He is right that there have been dramatic changes in the global economy, in the global landscape; in some directions, the world is much flatter than it has ever been, with those in various parts of the world being more connected than they have ever been, but the world is not flat.33 Countries that want to participate in the new world of high-tech globalization need new technologies, computers, and other equipment in order to connect with the rest of the world.

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Stiglitz, “Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets,” World Bank Economic Review, vol. 4, no. 3 (September 1990), pp. 351–66. 31.See, for instance, Deepa Narayan, The Contribution of People’s Participation: Evidence from 121 Rural Water Supply Projects (Washington, DC: World Bank, 1995), which found that local participation in rural water supply projects increased significantly the number of water systems in good condition, the portion of target populations reached, and overall economic and environmental benefits. For more current information, see the World Bank’s participation Web site at www.worldbank.org/participation. 32.Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). 33.Friedman himself is aware that the world is not flat, devoting a chapter to “The Un-Flat World.” Chapter Three 1.Of course, most of that reflected the size of the U.S. economy.

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy
Published 14 Jul 2014

The lost jobs and vanishing industries that resulted from the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 and China’s joining the World Trade Organization in 2001 were necessary outcomes, the theory goes. Over time, society becomes richer and more productive, and citizens across the globe benefit from higher living standards. Thomas L. Friedman devotes nearly all 639 pages of The World Is Flat to the benefits of globalization, noting that it saved American consumers roughly $600 billion, extended more capital to businesses to invest in new innovations, and helped the Federal Reserve hold interest rates down, which in turn gave Americans a chance to buy or refinance homes.

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JBIII “let [Schewel] talk for longer than he normally listens to anyone,” and he took copious notes in a rare (for him) show of tongue-holding. Though he often has a tin ear when it comes to workaday diplomacy, his hearing tends to sharpen when there’s money at stake. Schewel advised JBIII to read Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose in a speech that would have made the other Friedman proud (Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Flat; no relation). When the low-paying furniture jobs were among the last to go overseas, Schewel explained, Americans everywhere paid less for imported furniture, just as they had for shoes and clothes, creating a rise in living standards across the board. In the case of his stores, imported bedroom suites were typically 20 to 25 percent cheaper than domestically made ones.

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
by Bharat Anand
Published 17 Oct 2016

Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses,” New York Times , May 2, 2012. “the year of the MOOC” Laura Pappano, “The Year of the MOOC,” New York Times , November 2, 2012. “MOOC revolution is here” Thomas L. Friedman, “The Professors’ Big Stage,” New York Times , March 5, 2013. diving for a decade Srikant Datar, David Garvin, and Patrick Cullen, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2010). had written of a “flat world” Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). inverted classroom Maureen J. Lage, Glenn J.

Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets
by Michael W. Covel
Published 19 Mar 2007

New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 10. Going Once, Going Twice. Discover (August 2002), 23. 11. Jim Little, Sol Waksman, A Perspective on Risk. Barclay Managed Futures Report. 12. Craig Pauley, How to Become a CTA. Based on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Seminars, 1992–1994. June 1994. 13. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and The Olive Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999. 14. Gibbons Burke, Managing Your Money. Active Trader (July 2000). 15. Craig Pauley, How to Become a CTA. Based on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Seminars, 1992–1994. June 1994. 16. Ed Seykota and Dave Druz, Determining Optimal Risk.

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Sharon Schwartzman, Computers Keep Funds in Mint Condition: A Major Money Manager Combines the Scientific Approach with Human Ingenuity, Wall Street Computer Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (March 1991), 13. 35. Sharon Schwartzman, Computers Keep Funds in Mint Condition: A Major Money Manager Combines the Scientific Approach with Human Ingenuity. Wall Street Computer Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (March 1991), 13. 36. Thomas L Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999. 421 Endnotes 37. Barclay Trading Group, Ltd., Barclay Managed Futures Report, Vol. 4, No. 1 (First quarter 1993), 3. 38. Barclay Trading Group, Ltd., Barclay Managed Futures Report, Vol. 4, No. 1 (First quarter 1993), 10. 39.

Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
by Anshel Pfeffer
Published 30 Apr 2018

Gil Samsonov, The Princes: The Sons and Daughters of the Begin Generation Who Became Leaders (in Hebrew) (Or Yehuda: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, 2015), 208. 2. Shalom Yerushalmi, The Crucial Moment (in Hebrew) (Or Yehuda: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, 2017), 418. 3. Masha Hamilton, “Israeli Quits to Protest Shultz Talks,” Washington Post, April 1, 1988. 4. Ben Kaspit and Ilan Kfir, Netanyahu—The Road to Power (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Alpha, 1997). 5. Thomas L. Friedman, “Baker, in a Middle East Blueprint, Asks Israel to Reach Out to Arabs,” New York Times, May 23, 1989. 6. Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land (New York: Bantam, 2008), 40. 7. “Robert Gates: The Man Who Would Ban Netanyahu from the White House,” Haaretz, January 14, 2014. 8. “When You’re Serious, Call Us,” Newsweek, June 24, 1990. 9.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations (New York: Warner Books, 2009), loc. 2398, Kindle; first English edition published as A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World (New York: Bantam, 1993). 10. Linda Scherzer, “Gas Mask, Time Warp,” Times of Israel, January 14, 2014. Chapter 16: A Crime Unprecedented in the History of Democracy 1. Thomas L. Friedman, “Uneasy Debate for Jews in U.S. on Loans Issue,” New York Times, March 2, 1992. 2. Haim Misgav, Conversations with Yitzhak Shamir (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim, 1997), 172. 3. Avishai Margalit, Views in Review (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), 321. 4. Israel Television, Mabat, January 14, 1993. 5.

The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce
Published 20 Apr 2017

ft_site=falcon&desktop=true#axzz4YDkDxH19>. 76 Lawrence Summers, ‘Voters deserve responsible nationalism not reflex globalism’, Financial Times, 9 July 2016, <https://www.ft.com/content/15598db8-4456-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1>. 77 Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2011). 78 Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000). Part Two: Reaction 1 Samuel Huntington describes mid-1970s Europe onwards as the ‘third wave’, but my starting date is different. 2 Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Basic Books, New York, 2014 (ebook)). 3 Alexander Cooley, ‘Countering Democratic Norms’, in Larry Diamond, Marc F.

This Time We Went Too Far
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Published 1 Jan 2010

Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, “Israel and Hamas Are Both Paying a Steep Price in Gaza,” Haaretz (10 January 2009); Ari Shavit, “Analysis: Israel’s victories in Gaza make up for its failures in Lebanon,” Haaretz (12 January 2009); Guy Bechor, “A Dangerous Victory,” ynetnews.com (12 January 2009; http://tinyurl.com/c7gn7e). 34. Thomas L. Friedman, “Israel’s Goals in Gaza?,” New York Times (14 January 2009). 35. Human Rights Watch, Why They Died: Civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 war (New York: 2007), pp. 5, 14, 40–41, 45–46, 48, 51, 53. 36. Stephen Biddle and Jeffrey A. Friedman, The 2006 Lebanon Campaign and the Future of Warfare: Implications for army and defense policy (Carlisle, PA: 2008), pp. 43–45. 37.

The Lights in the Tunnel
by Martin Ford
Published 28 May 2011

Web: http://www.automationworld.com/webonly-320 34 Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, New York, The Penguin Press, 2007, p.397. 35 ABC News 20/20 Special, “Last Days on Earth”, 2006 36 Kurtzweil predicts the Technological Singularity by 2045: Fortune Magazine, May 14, 2007, Web: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/ 37 “Vernor Vinge on the Singularity,” Web: http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html Chapter 3: Danger 38 Robert J. Shapiro, Futurecast: how superpowers, populations, and globalization will change the way you live and work, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2008. 39 Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century, New York, Farrar, Strause and Giroux, 2005, 2006. 40 China’s high saving rate the result of government policy, see: Eamonn Fingleton, In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony, New York, St.

Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen
Published 9 Jan 2018

Wilson Carey McWilliams, “Democracy and the Citizen: Community, Dignity, and the Crisis of Contemporary Politics in America,” in Redeeming Democracy in America, ed. Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011), 27. INTRODUCTION 1. Adrian Vermuele, Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016). 2. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Anchor, 2000), 7. 3. From a response essay to David Brooks “Organization Kid,” by a member of Notre Dame class of 2018, in my course Political Philosophy and Education, August 29, 2016. Paper in author’s possession. 4. Wendell Berry, “Agriculture from the Roots Up,” in The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2005), 107–8. 5.

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby
Published 22 Dec 2009

Crandall and Kenneth Flamm, “Overview,” in Crandall and Flamm, eds., Changing the Rules, 114–29; Tony A. Freyer, Antitrust and Global Capitalism (New York, 2006), 6–7. 48. Dick K. Nanto, “The 1997–98 Asian Financial Crisis,” CRS Report for Congress, February 6, 1998 (www.fas.org/man/crs/crs-asia2), 5. 49. “The Time 100,” New York (2000). 50. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (New York, 2005), 128–39; Nelson Lichtenstein, “Why Working at Wal-Mart Is Different,” Connecticut Law Review, 39 (2007): 1649–84; “How Wal-Mart Fights Unions,” Minnesota Law Review, 92 (2008): 1462–1501. 51. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Ecoomy, 1400 to the Present (Armonk, NY, 2006), 260. 52.

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Four people—Doris Dungey, Nouriel Roubini, Brooksley Born, and John Bogle—clearly saw what was wrong with the prevailing financial incentives. See Bogle, “The Case of Corporate America Today,” Daedalus, 136 (Summer, 2007). 15. Alexei Barrionuevo, “Demand for a Say on the Way Out of Crisis,” New York Times, November 10, 2008. 16. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (New York, 2005); Jeffrey A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (New York, 2006 [paperback ed., 2007]), 293ff; Robert W. Crandall and Kenneth Ramm, eds., Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications (Washington, 1989), 10. 17.

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright
Published 28 Feb 2008

–May 2006. 18.The Muslim Brotherhood was also banned during Syria’s union with Egypt between 1958 and 1961, but allowed to run after the United Arab Republic crumbled. 19.Patrick Seale, Asad, pp. 316–338. 20.Ibid. 21.The Massacres of Hama: Law Enforcement Requires Accountability, Syrian Human Rights Committee, Feb. 1, 2005. 22.Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), p. 80. 23.The Massacres of Hama; and interviews with human rights groups in Damascus, Apr. 2006. 24.“Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century,” http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat4.htm. 25.Ibrahim Hamidi, “Islamist Streams on the March in Syria,” Al Hayat, Jan. 4, 2006. 26.Anthony Shadid, “Inside and Outside Syria, a Debate to Decide the Future,” The Washington Post, Nov. 9, 2005. 27.Deborah Amos, “Exiled Opposition Leader for Democracy in Syria,” National Public Radio, Dec. 1, 2005. 28.Ibrahim Hamidi, “Islamist Streams on the March in Syria.” 29.Charles Glass, “Is Syria Next?”

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Nimrod Raphaeli, “The Syrian Economy under Bashar al Assad,” Middle East Media Research Institute, no. 259, Jan. 13, 2006. 35.Matthew Levitt, “Syria and the War on Terrorism: Challenges for U.S. Policy (Part II),” PolicyWatch No. 596, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Jan. 24, 2002. 36.Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem, p. 80. 37.Albert Aji, “Prominent Syrian Human Rights Lawyer Among 6 Detained in Large Roundup,” Associated Press, May 17, 2006; and Mohammed Bazzi, “Syria Cracks Down on Dissidents,” Newsday, May 19, 2006. CHAPTER SEVEN: IRAN: THE REVOLUTIONARIES 1.Hamid Algar, Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (Berkeley, CA: Mizan Press, 1981) , pp. 169–173. 2.Ironically, the loan was largely to buy American arms. 3.Hamid Algar, Islam and Revolution, pp. 181–88. 4.Muqtedar Khan, “Two Theories of Ijtihad,” Common Ground News Service, Mar. 22, 2006. 5.Other faiths are deliberately excluded, notably the Baha’i, and often persecuted.

The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
by Steve Kornacki
Published 1 Oct 2018

Mills, “Opponents of Pentagon’s Anti-Gay Policy Point to Harbingers of Change,” Associated Press, August 24, 1992. It was a basic: Melissa Healy, “Clinton Aides Urge Quick End to Military Ban on Gays,” Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1993. Clinton’s victory: Andrea Stone, “Gays Hoping to End ‘Years of Darkness,’” USA Today, November 5, 1992. “My position”: Thomas L. Friedman, “The Transition: The President-Elect; Clinton to Open Military’s Ranks to Homosexuals,” New York Times, November 12, 1992. In Oregon: Brad Cain, “Anti-Gay Measure Rejected; Packwood Holds Lead in Senate,” Associated Press, November 4, 1992. “I defy you”: Laurence Jolidon, “Caution Urged on Gays in Military,” USA Today, November 16, 1992.

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Whitewater, he said: Gwen Ifill, “The 1992 Campaign: Personal Finances; Clinton Defends Real-Estate Deal,” New York Times, March 9, 1992. Dee Dee Myers: Ann Devroy and Al Kamen, “Longtime Travel Staff Given Walking Papers,” Washington Post, May 20, 1993. And she accused: Terrence Hunt, “White House Drops Arkansas Travel Agency,” Associated Press, May 21, 1993. The report: Thomas L. Friedman, “White House Rebukes 4 In Travel Office Shake-Up,” New York Times, July 3, 1993. “Put aside”: Anthony Lewis, “Abroad at Home; The Clinton Mystery,” New York Times, May 28, 1993. There was “possibly real sleaze”: David Lauter, “Clinton Relative Had Proposed She Head Travel Office Firings,” Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1993.

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
by Norman Finkelstein
Published 9 Jan 2018

Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, “Israel and Hamas Are Both Paying a Steep Price in Gaza,” Haaretz (10 January 2009); Ari Shavit, “Israel’s Victories in Gaza Make Up for Its Failures in Lebanon,” Haaretz (12 January 2009); Guy Bechor, “A Dangerous Victory,” ynetnews.com (12 January 2009); Amos Harel, “Israel Stuck in the Mud on Internal Gaza Probe,” Haaretz (30 January 2010). 29. Thomas L. Friedman, “Israel’s Goals in Gaza?,” New York Times (14 January 2009). See also Thomas L. Friedman, “War, Timeout, War, Time . . . ,” New York Times (26 June 2010). 30. Human Rights Watch, Why They Died: Civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 war (New York: 2007), pp. 5, 14, 40–41, 45–46, 48, 51, 53. 31. Stephen Biddle and Jeffrey A.

Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Meadows. Donella and Diana Wright
Published 3 Dec 2008

Clyde Haberman, “Israeli Soldier Kidnapped by Islamic Extremists,” International Herald Tribune, December 14, 1992, p. 1. 9. Sylvia Nasar, “Clinton Tax Plan Meets Math,” International Herald Tribune, December 14, 1992, p. 15. 10. See Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (New York: Crown Publishers, 1991). 11. Quoted in Thomas L. Friedman, “Bill Clinton Live: Not Just a Talk Show,” International Herald Tribune, December 16, 1992, p. 6. 12. Keith B. Richburg, “Addiction, Somali-Style, Worries Marines,” International Herald Tribune, December 15, 1992, p. 2. 13. Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, International Herald Tribune, December 18, 1992, p. 22. 14.

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy
by Tom Slee
Published 18 Nov 2015

French, Jason, Sam Schechner, and Matthias Verbergt. “How Airbnb Is Taking Over Paris.” WSJ. Accessed July 7, 2015. http://graphics.wsj.com/how-airbnb-is-taking-over-paris. Friedman, Thomas L. “And Now for a Bit of Good News . . .” The New York Times, July 19, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-and-now-for-a-bit-of-good-news.html. Friedman, Uri. “Airbnb CEO: Cities Are Becoming Villages.” The Atlantic, June 29, 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/airbnb-ceo-cities-are-becoming-villages/373676/. “From the People, for the People.” The Economist, May 9, 2015. http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21650289-will-financial-democracy-work-downturn-people-people.

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld
Published 31 Mar 2011

Here I am caging the title of the third book of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. Stephenson was of course caging Isaac Newton. Neal Stephenson, The System of the World (New York: William Morrow, 2004). 29 . In The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), neoliberal journalist Thomas L. Friedman looks at these same conditions and sees within them the seeds of what he calls Globalism 3.0. 30. Schwartz, The Art of the Long View, 12, 49. 31 . My thanks to design researcher and Parsons professor Lisa Grocott for pushing me to emphasize the “designerly” aspect of bespoke futures. 32 . MaSAI unintentionally references the Masai tribe of West African warriors, a bit of synchronicity that reflects Brian Eno’s famous call for more Africa in computing: “What’s pissing me off is that it uses so little of my body.

The Right Side of History
by Ben Shapiro
Published 11 Feb 2019

Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Crown Forum, 2009), 102–3. 56. Ben Shapiro, “NYT Op-Ed: ‘For All Its Flaws, the Communist Revolution Taught Chinese Women to Dream Big,” DailyWire.com, September 26, 2017, https://www.dailywire.com/news/21547/nyt-op-ed-all-its-flaws-communist-revolution-ben-shapiro. 57. Thomas L. Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times, September 8, 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html. 58. David Filipov, “For Russians, Stalin Is the ‘Most Outstanding’ Figure in World History, Followed by Putin,” WashingtonPost.com, June 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/26/for-russians-stalin-is-the-most-outstanding-figure-in-world-history-putin-is-next/?

Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani
Published 25 Nov 2008

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He would tell you it all depends: It all depends on India having a government as aspiring as its people, politicians as optimistic as its youth, bureaucrats as innovative as its entrepreneurs, and state, local, and national leaders as impatient, creative, and energetic as their kids—and, in my view, as Nandan Nilekani. Thomas L. Friedman Washington, D.C. November 2008 NOTES FROM AN ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR IF YOU CAN have such good roads in the Infosys campus, why are the roads outside so terrible?” demanded my visitor. I had just ended my pitch to him about why India was emerging as the world’s next growth engine and how the country was rapidly catching up with the developed world.

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr
Published 19 Feb 2019

It’s a world where the great coordinating process isn’t colonial rule, which operates within borders, but globalization, which crosses them. The replacement of colonialism with globalization, it should be said, hasn’t exactly leveled the playing field. A previously bumpy world may have become “flat,” as the pundit Thomas L. Friedman has put it. But who flattened it? For the most part, it was the U.S. military, seeking to project power around the planet. Given that, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that globalization, at least at first, favored the United States. U.S. planes filled the skies, U.S. broadcasts flooded the airwaves, U.S.

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Foell, “Traffic Signs Baffling the World Over,” Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1970. 91 percent of the world’s population: Thanks to the intrepid Callie Leone for help in producing this figure. “domination without”: George Marion, Bases and Empire: A Chart of American Expansion (New York, 1948), chap. 12. great coordinating process: A point developed cogently in Neil Smith, American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (Berkeley, CA, 2003). “flat”: Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York, 2005). 19. LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS “broken English”: William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606–1646, ed. William T. Davis (1651; New York, 1908), 135. On Squanto, I’ve relied on Neil Salisbury, “Squanto: Last of the Patuxets,” in Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, ed.

The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
by Richard Florida
Published 22 Apr 2010

Friedman himself writes that the inspiration for his best-selling book The World Is Flat came from a conversation with the CEO of a high-tech company in Bangalore, India, an agglomeration of more than 6 million people at the center of India’s software industry and a key part of the Bangalore-Mumbai megaregion. Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). See also Edward Leamer, “A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, a Small World after All, or None of the Above? Review of Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat,” Journal of Economic Literature 43, no. 1 (2007): 83–126; Richard Florida, “The World Is Spiky,” Atlantic, October 2006, retrieved from www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200510/world-is-spiky.pdf. 4. Adam Hochberg, “In Ariz., Luring Suburbanites to Greener, Urban Life,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, October 23, 2009, retrieved from www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?

The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
by Phillip Brown , Hugh Lauder and David Ashton
Published 3 Nov 2010

Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat (New York: Penguin, 2005), 230. 23. Scott, The China Trade Toll, 4. Chapter Eight 1. Joseph A. Schumpter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1943), 82. 2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (New York: Penguin, 1967), 83. 3. Thomas L. Friedman, “The New Untouchables,” New York Times, October 21, 2009. 4. See Charlie Porter, “Blood on Catwalk as Cutbacks Bite,” The Observer, January 4, 2009. 5. Pat House, interview on BizDaily, BBC World Service, December 30, 2008. 6. James Moore, “Outsourcing Mania Makes Serco a Buy,” The Independent, December 16, 2009. 7.

Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.
by Mitch Joel
Published 20 May 2013

They’re less concerned about where they’re going and much more concerned about not being let go from their jobs tomorrow. Beyond that, there are many people who are unemployed and would welcome the kind of misery that those clock-watchers are enduring. If you look at the global job market, things are not pretty. That was the crux of Thomas L. Friedman’s column on July 12, 2011, in the New York Times titled “The Start-Up of You.” His premise? The job market is not going to get any better, because the jobs of yesterday are gone and the companies with big valuations (he names Facebook, Twitter, etc.) aren’t looking for the types of workers that companies used to hire decades ago.

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida
Published 28 Jun 2009

She later published an influential book by the same title, The Death of Distance, Harvard Business School Press, 2001. Also, “Conquest of Location,” The Economist, October 7, 1999. 3 Edward E. Leamer, “A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, a Small World After All or None of the Above? Review of Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat,” Journal of Economic Literature 45, 1, 2007, pp. 83-126. 4 Urbanization data are from “World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database,” Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations 2007, esa.un.org/unpp. 5 “Q&A with Michael Porter,” Business Week, August 21, 2006, www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_34/b3998460.htm. 6 Richard Florida, “The World is Spiky,” Atlantic Monthly, October 2005. 7 Gulden used the light that is visible from space at night as a basis for estimating economic activity.

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
by John J. Mearsheimer
Published 1 Jan 2001

See Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1978). 23. See inter alia Norman Angell, The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage, 3d rev. and enl. ed. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1912); Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999); Edward D. Mansfield, Power, Trade, and War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994); Susan M. McMillan, “Interdependence and Conflict,” Mershon International Studies Review 41, Suppl. 1 (May 1997), pp. 33–58; and Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World (New York: Basic Books, 1986). 24.

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The state of Kuwait must be restored, or no nation will be safe, and the promising future we anticipate will indeed be jeopardized.” George Bush, “The Need for an Offensive Military Option,” in Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, eds., The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions (New York: Times Books, 1991), p. 229. Also see Thomas L. Friedman, “Washington’s ‘Vital Interests,’” in ibid., pp. 205–6. There is also the possibility that states will bandwagon (in Schweller’s sense of the term) with successful aggressors and cause more war. 64. See Matthew Evangelista, Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988); Williamson Murray and Allan R.

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture
by David Boyle and Andrew Simms
Published 14 Jun 2009

Galbraith (1976) Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went, Penguin Books, London Tom Greco (2001) Money, Chelsea Green, White River Junction Keith Hart (2000) The Memory Bank, Profile, London Doreen Massey (2007) World City, Polity Press, London Peter North (2007) Money and Liberation, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis Ann Pettifor (ed) (2003) Real World Economic Outlook, Palgrave Macmillan, London James Robertson and Joseph Huber (2000) Creating New Money, New Economics Foundation, London Joseph Stiglitz (2007) Making Globalisation Work, Penguin Books, London Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (2008) The Three Trillion Dollar War, Norton, New York. Ann Pettifor (2006) The Coming First World Debt Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, London. Thomas L. Friedman (1999) The Lexus and the Olive Tree, HarperCollins, London. George Soros, Byron Wien and Krisztina Koenen (1995) Soros on Soros, Wiley, New York. James Tobin (1978) ‘A proposal for international monetary reform’, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol 4, July–October. Paul Krugman (1995) Peddling Prosperity¸ Norton, New York.

The New Class Conflict
by Joel Kotkin
Published 31 Aug 2014

Hayward, “Bureaucracy In America Now Goes All The Way Down,” Forbes, January 20, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenhayward/2014/01/20/bureaucracy-in-america-now-goes-all-the-way-down; Jaime Fuller, “Everything You Need to Know about the Long Fight between Cliven Bundy and the Federal Government,” The Fix (blog), Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-long-fight-between-cliven-bundy-and-the-federal-government. 35. Peter Orszag, “Too Much of a Good Thing,” New Republic, September 14, 2011, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/94940/peter-orszag-democracy; Thomas L. Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times, September 8, 2009. 36. Arnold Toynbee, The Study of History (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1957), p. 376. 37. Norman Birnbaum, The Crisis of Industrial Society (New York: Oxford UP, 1969), p. 13; Hays, The Response to Industrialism, p. 25; Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project, “‘Nones’ on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation,” October 9, 2012, http://www.pewforum.org/files/2012/10/NonesOnTheRise-full.pdf. 38.

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling , Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Published 2 Apr 2018

Smil describes the slow transition away from fossil fuels and also debunks myths about food production, innovation, population, and mega-risks. See gapm.io/tene. Future consumers. For an interactive visualization of the graphs on page 138, see gapm.io/incm. Two great books on this are The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (2008) and The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (2005). CO2 per capita. The data on CO2 per capita for China, the United States, Germany, and India comes from CDIAC. See gapm.io/tco2. Chapter Six: The Generalization Instinct Graph: Difference within Africa. For an interactive version of the graph on page 159, see gapm.io/edafr. Contraception.

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen
Published 1 Mar 2018

Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 4, no. 5, December 15, 1890. 4. Electronics Magazine, vol. 38, no. 8, April 19, 1965. 5. Gordon Moore didn’t himself call it Moore’s Law when he wrote his 1965 paper. His friend Carver Mead was the first to call it that, in 1975. 6. Thomas L. Friedman, Thanks You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), 27. 7. Ibid., 28. 8. Joi Ito and Jeff Howe, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future (Grand Central Publishing, 2016). 9. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late, 4. 10.

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
by Steven Levy
Published 23 Oct 2006

Another helpful source on academic podcasts was Brock Read, "Seriously, iPods Are Educational," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2005. 245 Georgia College and State University: Greg Bluestein, "Rural college pushed iPod use for lectures," AP, March 11, 2006; and college site, http:// ipod.gcsu.edu/index.html. 246 National Semiconductor: Press release, "National Semiconductor Equips All Employees with 30-Gigabyte Video Apple iPods to Cap Off Most Successful Year in Company's History," June 12,2006. 246 www.toodou.com: Thomas L. Friedman, "Chinese Finding Their Voice," The New York Times, October 21,2005. 247 Even the Vatican: "The Gospel According to iPod," Agence France Presse, October 27,2005. 247 podcast from outer space: "Steve Robinson: First Podcaster from Outer Space" is available at www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/robinson_ podcast.html.

A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
by Warren Berger
Published 4 Mar 2014

The Netflix story has appeared in various interviews with Hastings, including Matthew Honan, “Unlikely Places Where Wired Pioneers Had Their Eureka Moments,” Wired, March 24, 2008. 21 to Pixar (Can animation be cuddly?) . . . Anthony Lane, “The Fun Factory,” New Yorker, May 16, 2011. 22 New York Times recently characterized . . . Shaila Dewan, “To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop,” New York Times, September 21, 2012. 23 Thomas Friedman has written extensively . . . For example, see Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s a 401(k) World,” New York Times, April 30, 2013. 24 Joichi Ito, the director of the . . . From my interview with Ito, April 2013. 25 “Right now, knowledge is a commodity” . . . From my interview with Tony Wagner, January 2013. 26 “the value of explicit information is dropping” . . .

The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey
Published 1 Jan 2010

When the architect on the South Korean urban jury said only mental conceptions matter, he was making a very common move doubtless impelled by an understandable desire for simplification. But such simplifications are both unwarranted and dangerously misleading. We are, in fact, surrounded with dangerously oversimplistic monocausal explanations. In his bestselling 2005 book The World is Flat, the journalist Thomas L. Friedman shamelessly espouses a version of technological determinism (which he mistakenly attributes to Marx). Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel (1997) argues that the relation to nature is what counts, thus transforming human evolution into a tale of environmental determinism. Africa is poor for environmental reasons, not, he says, because of racial inferiorities or (what he does not say) because of centuries of imperialist plundering, beginning with the slave trade.

The Post-American World: Release 2.0
by Fareed Zakaria
Published 1 Jan 2008

Naazneen Barma et al., “The World without the West,” National Interest, no. 90 (July/Aug. 2007): 23–30. 10. See a survey from the Economist on “The New Titans” in the Sept. 14, 2006, issue. 11. Jim O’Neill and Anna Stupnytska, The Long-term Outlook for the BRICs and N-11 Post Crisis (Goldman Sachs, Global Eonomics Paper no. 192, Dec. 4, 2009). 12. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), 226. Andy Grove’s statement is quoted in Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 8. 13. Gabor Steingart, The War for Wealth: Why Globalization Is Bleeding the West of Its Prosperity (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008). 3.

Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer
Published 14 Apr 2013

Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012), 8. 5. Ibid., 17. 6. Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, abridgement of vols. I–VI by D. C. Somervell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, [1946] 1987). 7. We owe this idea to Johan Galtung. 8. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Virtual Middle Class Rises,” New York Times, February 2, 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/friedman-the-virtual-middle-class-rises.html?ref=thomaslfriedman (accessed March 3, 2013). 9. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston: Beacon Press, [1944] 2010). 10.

Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child
by Alissa Quart
Published 16 Aug 2006

It was said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself.” 181sidewalk preacher: Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962). 181“great fear that haunts evangelical parents”: Randall Balmer, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2000). 10. THE PRODIGY HUNTERS: MATH WHIZ KIDS BECOME WALL STREET RECRUITS 191Budunov’s statement echoes the claims of pundits: See Thomas L. Friedman, “Still Eating Our Lunch,” New York Times, September 16, 2005. 191Singaporean eighth-grade students score first in the world in math: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Highlights from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study: TIMSS: 2003 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2003). 191According to a 2002 study: Erling E.

Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
by Dani Rodrik
Published 8 Oct 2017

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work,” New York Times, January 21, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all. 28. Edward Leamer, “A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 45(1), 2007: 83–126. 29. Kevin Morgan, “The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Learning, Proximity, and Territorial Innovation Systems,” Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 4, 2004: 3–21. 30. Josiah Ober, “Wealthy Hellas,” Presidential Address, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 140, 2010: 241–286. 31.

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior
Published 6 Apr 2020

Mark Hertsgaard, “Donald Trump’s Favorite Drug Trafficker and Other Unsung Scandals of the Presidency From Hell,” The Nation, March 13, 2018, https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trumps-favorite-drug-trafficker-and-other-unsung-scandals-of-the-presidency-from-hell/. 59.   George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 222. 3. The 1990s: Elite Exploits of the New World Order   1.   Thomas L. Friedman, “Foreign Affairs Big Mac I,” New York Times, December 8, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/opinion/foreign-affairs-big-mac-i.html.   2.   Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden, “The Long Boom,” Wired, July 1, 1997, https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/.   3.   Jane Meyer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” New Yorker, March 4, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house.   4.   

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
by Virginia Eubanks
Published 1 Feb 2011

In the popular press, accounts of the information economy posit that increased instability and volatility can offer more horizontal forms of power, free workers to retool their skills and renegotiate their work arrangements, and sweep away old forms of inequity.12 The combination of new IT and leaner, neoliberal governance, optimists argue, results in rapidly increasing wealth and flatter hierarchies, although these claims have been somewhat muted in recent years.13 The most popular of these narratives, penned by business writers, futurists, and management gurus, often make it to the bestseller lists, suggesting that they tap into widely held hopes 56 Chapter 4 and beliefs about the power of IT and the new economy to dismantle outof-date institutions, decentralize power, and create broad-based equity.14 For example, Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine, argues in his 1998 book, New Rules for the New Economy, that the network economy is based on the principles of flux. He writes, “Change, even in its shocking forms, is rapid difference. Flux, on the other hand, is more like the Hindu god Shiva, a creative force of destruction and genesis. Flux topples the incumbent and creates a platform for more innovation and birth” (10). Thomas L. Friedman makes a similar argument in his 2005 bestseller, The World Is Flat, explaining that digital connectivity produced rapid changes in the last two decades—including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the invention of the Netscape Web browser, and employment practices such as outsourcing and off-shoring—that act as flattening and leveling forces, creating broad-based equity across the globe.

On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition)
by William Zinsser
Published 1 Jan 1976

Add all the books combining history and biography that have distinguished American letters in recent years: David McCullough’s Truman and The Path Between the Seas; Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York; Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63; Richard Kluger’s The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune; Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb; Thomas L. Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem; J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of American Families; Edmund Morris’s Theodore Rex; Nicholas Lemann’s The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America; Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa; Ronald Steel’s Walter Lippmann and the American Century; Marion Elizabeth Rodgers’s Mencken: The American Iconoclast; David Remnick’s Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire; Andrew Delbanco’s Melville; Mark Stevens’s and Annalyn Swan’s de Kooning: An American Master.

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
by David Goodhart
Published 7 Jan 2017

, Harvard University and Centre for Economics Policy Research discussion paper, http://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/dani-rodrik/files/who-needs-the-nation-state.pdf 4.Ivan Krastev, ‘Fear and loathing of a world without borders’, Financial Times, 6 April 2016, https://ft.com/content/328f15da-fa4e-11e5-8f41-df5bda8beb40 5.Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System, London, London: Penguin, forthcoming. 6.Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century, Penguin, 2007. 7.Pankaj Ghemawat, ‘Distance Still Matters’, Harvard Business Review, September 2001. 8.‘The World Economy Special Report’, The Economist, 1 October 2016. 9.Some 10.7 per cent lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2013.

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux
Published 16 May 2012

“Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Has Spilled Over Into Home Equity Loans and Lines,” Common Sense Forecaster (blog), January 17, 2008, http://commonsenseforecaster.blogspot.com/2008/01/sub-prime-mortgage-crisis-has-spilled.html. 6. William Cohan, “A Tsunami of Excuses,” New York Times, March 11, 2009. 7. Quoted in Kevin Phillips, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (New York: Viking, 2008), 180. 8. Thomas L. Friedman, “Palin’s Kind of Patriotism,” New York Times, October 7, 2008. 9. David Brooks, “Greed and Stupidity,” New York Times, April 2, 2009. 10. Bill Marsh, “A History of Home Values,” New York Times, August 26, 2006, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27leon_graph2.large.gif. 11.

Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
by Daniel Sokatch
Published 18 Oct 2021

HereMoreover, the Americans only consulted with and involved key Arab states on the issue: Miller, conversation with the author, Mar. 1, 2021. HereAs is the case with most aspects of this conflict, there is truth to all sides of the story: Pressman, “Visions in Collision,” 15–33, 37–40. HereHe owned a house, bedecked by huge Israeli flags: Thomas L. Friedman, “In Jerusalem, Sharon Apartment Creates a Stir,” New York Times, Dec. 31, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/31/world/in-jerusalem-sharon-apartment-creates-a-stir.html. Hereas an even bigger provocation, given who Sharon was: Ari Shavit, “The General,” New Yorker, Jan. 16, 2006, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/01/23/the-general-5.

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright
Published 6 Jun 2014

“Like a Wandering Jew,” he wrote, “this World City seeks a home.”6 The spirit of internationalism that drove Otlet has not disappeared. From the United Nations and its constellation of affiliated nongovernmental organizations to the steady stream of news articles chronicling the effects of globalization, the evidence for it is everywhere. Thomas L. Friedman and others gave a popular voice to the argument that the Internet and its protocols, coupled with the rise of open-source software, have provided a “crude foundation of a whole new global platform for collaboration.”7 In this networked world, traditional hierarchies—national, organizational, and ontological—are giving way to a “flat” world, characterized by long-distance collaboration, 303 C ATA L O G I N G T H E WO R L D o­ ffshoring, and rapid advances in computing speed and communication protocols.

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
by Joel Kotkin
Published 11 May 2020

Wright Mills (Boston: Beacon, 1968), 79; J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution (New York: New American Library, 1962), 327. 11 C. Wright Mills, The Causes of World War Three (1958; Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1985), 170. 12 Robert B. Reich and Ira C. Magaziner, Minding America’s Business (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1982), 13, 378. 13 Thomas L. Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times, September 8, 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html; John Hudson, “Peter Orszag Is So Over Democracy,” Atlantic, September 26, 2011, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/peter-orszag-so-over-democracy/337475/; Joseph C.

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini
Published 17 Oct 2022

Uncommon Knowledge, The Hoover Institution, April 9, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12r-37GZI0 @ 2:20. 7. Niall Ferguson, “Evergrande’s Fall Shows How Xi Has Created a China Crisis,” Bloomberg, September 26, 2021, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-26/niall-ferguson-evergrande-is-a-victim-of-xi-jinping-s-china-crisis. 8. Thomas L. Friedman, “Congress, Angry at China, Moves to Impose Sanctions,” New York Times, June 23, 1989, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/23/world/congress-angry-at-china-moves-to-impose-sanctions.html?searchResultPosition=1. 9. John J. Mearsheimer, “The Inevitable Rivalry,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2021, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2021-10-19/inevitable-rivalry-cold-war. 10.

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by Martin Ford
Published 4 May 2015

Selingo, College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students (New York: New Harvest, 2013), pp. 86–101; and Felix Salmon, “Udacity and the Future of Online Universities” (Reuters blog), January 23, 2012, http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/. 7. Thomas L. Friedman, “Revolution Hits the Universities,” New York Times, January 26, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/friedman-revolution-hits-the-universities.html. 8. Penn Graduate School of Education Press Release: “Penn GSE Study Shows MOOCs Have Relatively Few Active Users, with Only a Few Persisting to Course End,” December 5, 2013, http://www.gse.upenn.edu/pressroom/press-releases/2013/12/penn-gse-study-shows-moocs-have-relatively-few-active-users-only-few-persisti. 9.

Risk: A User's Guide
by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico
Published 4 Oct 2021

Chapter 2: Damocles and Me heavy sword hung from: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, Project, https://gutenberg.org/files/14988/14988-h/14988-h.htm. in their book Radical Uncertainty: John Kay and Mervyn King, Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020). gunfight in Somalia’s smoldering capital: Michael R. Gordon and Thomas L. Friedman, “Details of U.S. Raid in Somalia: Success So Near, a Loss So Deep,” The New York Times, October 25, 1993, https://nytimes.com/1993/10/25/world/details-of-us-raid-in-somalia-success-so-near-a-loss-so-deep.html; Mark Bowden, “The Legacy of Black Hawk Down,” Smithsonian Magazine, January/February 2019, https://smithsonianmag.com/history/legacy-black-hawk-down-180971000.

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone
Published 14 Oct 2013

Amazon.com et al., King County Superior Court, case 10-2-12192-7 SEA. 5 Miguel Bustillo and Stu Woo, “Retailers Push Amazon on Taxes,” Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011. 6 Aaron Glantz, “Amazon Spends Big to Fight Internet Sales Tax,” Bay Citizen, August 27, 2011. 7 Tim O’Reilly, blog post, Google Plus, September 5, 2011, https://plus.google.com/+TimOReilly/posts/QypNDmvJJq7. 8 Zoe Corneli, “Legislature Approves Amazon Deal,” Bay Citizen, September 9, 2011. 9 Bryant Urstadt, “What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 7, 2010. 10 Nick Saint, “Amazon Nukes Diapers.com in Price War—May Force Diapers’ Founders to Sell Out,” Business Insider, November 5, 2010. 11 Amazon, “Amazon Marketplace Sellers Enjoy High-Growth Holiday Season,” press release, January 2, 2013. 12 Roy Blount Jr., “The Kindle Swindle?,” New York Times, February 24, 2009. 13 Brad Stone, “Amazon’s Hit Man,” Bloomberg Businessweek, January 25, 2012. 14 Thomas L. Friedman, “Do You Want the Good News First?,” New York Times, May 19, 2012. 15 “Contracts on Fire: Amazon’s Lending Library Mess,” AuthorsGuild.org, November 14, 2011. 16 Richard Russo, “Amazon’s Jungle Logic,” New York Times, December 12, 2011. Chapter 11: The Kingdom of the Question Mark 1 George Anders, “Inside Amazon’s Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes the Customer,” Forbes, April 4, 2012. 2 Amazon’s Leadership Principles, http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
by Ruchir Sharma
Published 8 Apr 2012

—Pratap Bahnu Mehta, Indian Express “It is really the focus of economic attention around the world. It is a whole new look at which economies are going to be winners and which are going to be losers.” —NDTV “This is among the best books to understand the emerging world. . . . Sharma matches the brilliance of Thomas L. Friedman, author of the widely cited The World Is Flat.” —CNN-IBN Copyright © 2013, 2012 by Ruchir Sharma All rights reserved First published as a Norton paperback 2013 Photograph credits: p. xii: Michael Nichols / National Geographic / Getty Images; p. 16: Panos Pictures; p. 36: Mary Evans Picture Library; p. 60: Martin Adolfsson / Gallery Stock; p. 74: Jon Lowenstein / Noor Images BV; p. 84: Donald Weber / VII Photo Agency LLC; p. 98: Mark Power / Magnum Photos; p. 112: Redux Pictures LLC; p. 130: Panos Pictures; p. 154: Liu Jin / AFP / Getty Images; p. 172: Benedicte Kurzen / VII Network; p. 186: Panos Pictures; p. 222: Jan Cobb Photography Ltd / Photographer’s Choice / Getty Images; p. 240: Comstock Images / Getty Images.

The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins
Published 15 Sep 2008

Sassaman’s virtues flourished there: his vision, his intelligence, his tirelessness. When I met him, in October 2003, Sassaman had already dispersed nearly $ 1 million to set up a new government and refurbish mosques and schools. His junior officers were studying Arabic, and Sassaman was halfway through From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman’s book on the Middle East. Every Friday, inside a circle of armored personnel carriers, the local Iraqis and the men of Sassaman’s 1-8 battalion would square off for a game of soccer. His men loved him. “It wouldn’t be anything to be out there doing a raid or doing whatever and then a Bradley would pull up behind you and it would be like, who the hell is this?”

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell
Published 21 Jan 2020

(Los Angeles: Bilingual Education Services, 2004). See also Melnick, “The Odd Evolution of the Civil Rights State.” 7. Winners “the only way international competition”: Richard Baldwin, The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2016), 167. “virtual meetings”: Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s a Flat World, After All,” New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2005. By the end of the 1970s: This section draws on the following sources: Christopher Caldwell, “Easy Credit, Hard Landing” [review of/essay on Raghuram Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010)], Weekly Standard, July 26, 2010.

For Profit: A History of Corporations
by William Magnuson
Published 8 Nov 2022

Oil Companies and the Arab Oil Embargo: The International Allocation of Constricted Supply 8–10 (1975). 9. Raymond Vernon, The Oil Crisis in Perspective 179–88 (1976); “We Were Robbed,” The Economist, Dec. 1, 1973; Anthony Sampson, The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped 313 (1975). 10. Thomas L. Friedman, “The First Law of Petropolitics,” Foreign Policy 28, 36 (May/June 2006). 11. Harold F. Williamson and Arnold R. Daum, The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859–1899 320 (1959). 12. Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller 132 (2004); Yergin, The Prize 43–53; Allan Nevins, Study in Power: John D.

The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
by Yascha Mounk
Published 15 Feb 2018

Conover, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Flammini, “The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street,” PLoS ONE 8, no. 5 (2013); and Munmun De Choudhury, Shagun Jhaver, Benjamin Sugar, and Ingmar Weber, “Social Media Participation in an Activist Movement for Racial Equality,” paper presented at the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Cologne, May 2016. 14. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Square People, Part 1,” New York Times, May 13, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/opinion/friedman-the-square-people-part-1.html. 15. Diamond, “Liberation Technology,” 71. 16. See for example Morozov, Net Delusion; and Evgeny Morozov, “Whither Internet Control?” in Liberation Technology, ed.

The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage
Published 21 Apr 2020

Madeleine Albright thesis, cited in Michael Dobbs, Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 153; Madeleine Albright, “broad-based coalitions,” quoted in Dobbs, Madeleine Albright, 350; on photos in Secretary Albright’s office, see Dobbs, Madeleine Albright, 401 10. See Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Picador, 2012). 11. Robert Kaplan, “lifelong Democrat,” in “Looking the World in the Eye,” Atlantic Monthly, December 2001, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/12/looking-the-world-in-the-eye/302354/. 12. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 13, 20, 19, 28. 13.

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer
Published 24 Sep 2018

On the initial decision to expand NATO eastward, see Ronald D. Asmus, Opening NATO’s Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002); James M. Goldgeier, Not Whether but When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999). 68. Quoted in Thomas L. Friedman, “Foreign Affairs; Now a Word from X,” New York Times, May 2, 1998. 69. “Moscow Looks with Concern at NATO, EU Enlargement—2004-02-17,” Voice of America English News, October 26, 2009. 70. One reason there was so little resistance to NATO expansion is that liberals assumed the alliance would never have to honor its new security guarantees, because the nature of international politics, at least in Europe, had fundamentally changed.

Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990
by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds
Published 24 Aug 2016

Baker Papers, Mudd Library, Princeton, NJ (henceforth BP), Box 108, Folder 12, JAB notes from 12/4/89 following POTUS-Gorbachev mtg @Malta, Brussels, Belg. (WEU was the Western European Union.) Underlinings are in the original typescript; italicized phrases and deletions are handwritten additions by Baker. 21. Quotes from Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Baker in Berlin, Outlines Plan To Make NATO a Political Group’, New York Times, 13 December 1989, A1, A18. See also Speech by Secretary of State James Baker to the Berlin Press Club (Extracts), 13 December 2015, printed in Lawrence Freedman, ed., Europe Transformed: Documents on the End of the Cold War (London, 1990), 397–8. 22.

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
by Rob Copeland
Published 7 Nov 2023

hedge funds dated to 1949: Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Penguin Press, 2011). “magic”: Ibid. disastrous stock picks: Ibid. Soros was hauled: Saul Hansell, “A Primer on Hedge Funds: Hush-Hush and for the Rich,” New York Times, April 14, 1994. “Frankly”: Thomas L. Friedman, “House Panel Given a Lesson in Hedge Funds,” New York Times, April 14, 1994. “top 5 percent”: Dalio, Principles (2017). Alpha was what: Alpha also involves a complicated adjustment for risk. she had noticed: Ochoa-Brillembourg, author interview. No longer convinced: The World Bank fund would eventually invest again in other Bridgewater products.

Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
by Robert Bryce
Published 26 Apr 2011

Chapter 10 1 CBSNews.com, “Transcript: Obama’s Earth Day Speech,” April 22, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/22/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4962412.shtml. 2 BBC, “Denmark ‘World’s Happiest Nation,’” July 3, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7487143.stm. 3 BBC, “Denmark ‘Happiest Place on Earth,’” July 28, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5224306.stm. 4 Cal Fussman, “The Energizer,” Discover, February 20, 2006, http://discovermagazine.com/2006/feb/energizer/article_print. 5 Hannah Sentenac, “Denmark Points Way in Alternative Energy Sources,” Fox News, November 28, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203293,00.html. 6 Thomas L. Friedman, “Flush with Energy,” New York Times, August 9, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10friedman1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin. 7 Joshua Green, “The Elusive Green Economy,” Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2009, 79, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/carter-obama-energy. 8 Ibid., 86. 9 Energy Information Administration, “Denmark Energy Profile,” http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/country_time_series.cfm?

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne
Published 5 Sep 2007

The Napolitano piece is Peter Napolitano, “Modern Love; Close Enough for Momma, Too Close for Me,” New York Times, December 24, 2006. Figures on the value lost to companies from absentee workers come from Jane Gross, “As Parents Age, Baby Boomers and Businesses Struggle to Cope,” New York Times, March 25, 2006. VI. Politics Impressionable Elites The Friedman book is, of course, Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). The income data come from David Cay Johnston, “Income Gap Is Widening, Data Shows,” New York Times, March 29, 2007. The PSB poll was 806 telephone interviews among likely 2008 presidential voters, including an oversample of 400 very likely Democratic presidential primary voters.

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 1 Jun 2009

Outsource It to Chinese,” The New York Times, December 9, 2005, Technology section. 200 As seminal essays by Copies of all these essays, and more, are collected in Randall Packer, Ken Jordan, and William Gibson, eds., Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001). CHAPTER EIGHT No Returns 209 Addicted to a system in which Thomas L. Friedman, “Et Tu, Toyota?” The New York Times, October 3, 2007, Opinion section. 210 While advertising its own commitment Staff, “Et Tu, Tom Friedman,” Edmunds AutoObserver, October 4, 2007, http://www.autoobserver.com/2007 /10/et-tu-tom-friedman.html (accessed October 5, 2007). 213 In short, small farmers Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin Group, 2006), 136. 213 publicly traded corporation Whole Foods Market Though swinging wildly along with the stock market, Whole Foods’ stock price multiplied by total number of shares issued has stood between $2 and $5 billion. 213 Thanks to a law written Jack Hedin, “My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables),” The New York Times, March 1, 2008, Opinion section. 214 Having spent $855 million Ken Dilanian, “Senators Who Weakened Drug Bill Received Millions from Industry,” USA Today, May 11, 2007, News section. 214 In one recent example “Hidden Drug Payments at Harvard,” The New York Times, June 10, 2008, editorial page. 214 Not only can the FDA seal Johnson & Johnson obscured evidence that its Ortho Evra birth-control patch delivered dangerous amounts of estrogen, but has successfully argued that FDA approval preempts legal liability for deaths and injuries associated with the patch.

Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
by Andrew L. Russell
Published 27 Apr 2014

Britez, eds., Open Education and Education for Openness (Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2008). 2 Barack Obama, “Transparency and Openness in Government,” The White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov/open (accessed August 19, 2010). 3 Lewis Mumford, “Authoritarian and Democratic Technics,” Technology & Culture 5 (1964): 1–8. See also David E. Nye, “Shaping Communication Networks: Telegraph, Telephone, Computer,” Social Research 64 (1997): 1067–1091. 4 Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996); Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005); Louis Galambos, “Recasting the Organizational Synthesis: Structure and Process in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” Business History Review 79 (2005): 1–37; Louis Galambos, The Creative Society – And the Price Americans Paid for It (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012); Alfred E.

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by William Easterly
Published 4 Mar 2014

William Easterly, “Benevolent Autocrats,” DRI Working Paper Number 75, Development Research Institute, New York University, New York, NY, 2011. 7. Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama, “The Post-Washington Consensus: Development After the Crisis,” Foreign Affairs 90, no. 2 (March/April 2011): 51. Available at: http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/23124/foreignaffairs_postwashingtonconsensus.pdf, accessed August 31, 2013. 8. Thomas L. Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times (September 8, 2009). Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html?_r=0, accessed August 31, 2013. 9. United Kindgom Department for International Development, Ethiopia Country Page, http://www.dfid.gov.uk/ethiopia, accessed January 14, 2013. 10.

The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
by James Rickards
Published 7 Apr 2014

. : Satoshi Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” November 1, 2008, http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. the history of barter is mostly a myth: David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House, 2011), pp. 21–41. “Sept. 11 was not a failure of intelligence or coordination . . .”: Thomas L. Friedman, “A Failure to Imagine,” New York Times, May 19, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/opinion/a-failure-to-imagine.html. Chapter 11: Maelstrom “The broad question is whether central banks . . .”: Arthur F. Burns, memorandum to President Gerald R. Ford, June 3, 1975, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v31/d86.

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox
Published 29 May 2009

The origin of the 401(k) is described in Michael J. Clowes, The Money Flood (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000), 188–89. The story of the rise of “investor nation” is told in depth in Joseph Nocera, A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994). 4. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Anchor Books, Random House, 2000), 58. 5. Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior 2003, Dalbar, Inc., July 14, 2003. 6. Chris Flynn, Herbert Lum, DC Plans Under Performed DB Plans (Toronto: CEM Benchmarking, 2006). 7. John J. Curran, “Why Investors Make the Wrong Choices,” Fortune, Nov. 24, 1986; Clint Willis, “The Ten Mistakes to Avoid with Money,” Money, June 1990. 8.

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson
Published 15 Nov 2021

See Victor Davis Hanson, “Obama’s Hazy Sense of History,” National Review, August 28, 2014, www.nationalreview.com/2014/08/obamas-hazy-sense-history-victor-davis-hanson; David A. Graham, “The Wrong Side of ‘the Right Side of History,’” The Atlantic, December 21, 2015, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/obama-right-side-of-history/420462. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 550. 12. Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), 376–407. 13. Tsarnaev: Janet Reitman, “Jahar’s World,” Rolling Stone, July 17, 2013, www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jahars-world-83856. 14.

Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration
by Kent E. Calder
Published 28 Apr 2019

John Ryan, “The Iran Nuclear Deal and Asia,” National Bureau of Asian Research, January 2016, http://​nbr​.org/​downloads/​pdfs/​psa/​sa15​_essay​_iran​_jan2016​.pdf; and Hrishabh Sandilya, “India, Iran, and the West,” The Diplomat, November 9, 2014, http://​ thediplomat​.com/​2014/​11/​india​-iran​-and​-the​-west/. 43. See Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011). 44. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) was signed into law in 2003. See Henry J. Aaron, “Prescription Drug Bill: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” The Brookings Institution, January 15, 2004, https://​www​.brookings​ .edu/​articles/​prescription​-drug​-bill​-the​-good​-the​-bad​-and​-the​-ugly. 45.

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by James Crabtree
Published 2 Jul 2018

“India’s 100 Richest Are All Billionaires; Mukesh Ambani Tops List,” Indian Express, September 25, 2014. 16. Jayant Sinha, “Share Your Billions with Our Billion,” Outlook Business, November 1, 2008. 17. Ibid. 18. Bremmer, The Fat Tail, p. 196. 19. Rajakumar and Henley, “Growth and Persistence of Large Business Groups in India.” 20. Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s a Flat World, After All,” New York Times, April 3, 2005. 21. Richard Waters, “Business Pioneers in Technology,” Financial Times, March 31, 2015. 22. Foreign Affairs, July–August 2006. 23. James Crabtree, “India’s Billionaires Club,” Financial Times, November 16, 2012. 24.

Open: The Story of Human Progress
by Johan Norberg
Published 14 Sep 2020

In his classic book on the rise of totalitarianism, The Road to Serfdom from 1944, Friedrich Hayek wrote about this kind of moment, characterized by a general: dissatisfaction with the slow and cumbersome course of democratic procedure which makes action for action’s sake the goal. It is then the man or the party who seems strong and resolute enough ‘to get things done’ who exercises the greatest appeal.62 This is far from an exclusive right-wing desire. When contemplating the threat from global warming, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman echoes these sentiments by saying that China’s one-party state ‘can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies’ and that our slow and cumbersome democracy ‘is worse’.63 When Pär Holmgren, Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Greens, was asked what he would do if he was prime minister, he responded: ‘I would immediately abolish elections’ because the environmental threat is like a third world war, so ‘we don’t have the time to squabble between the parties’.64 But it is precisely when problems are as severe as global warming, with such potential for disaster, that we need as many ideas and as much knowledge as possible, and so must resist the temptation to impose a single idea from the top.

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by Michio Kaku
Published 15 Mar 2011

scp=1&­sq=%22to%20gauge%20the%20internet%22&­st=cse. ­ ­3 “attribute 90 percent of income growth in England and the United States”: Virginia Postrel, “Avoiding Previous Blunders,” New York Times, January 1, 2004, www.­nytimes.­com/­2004/­01/­01/­business/­01scene.­html. ­ ­4 “A century ago, railroad companies”: Ibid. ­ ­5 “In the 19th century”: Thomas L. Friedman, “Green the Bailout,” New York Times, September 28, 2008, p. WK11, www.­nytimes.­com/­2008/­09/­28/­opinion/­28friedman.­html. ­ ­6 From 1900 to 1925, the number of automobile start-up companies: Steve Lohr, “New Economy; Despite Its Epochal Name, the Clicks-and-Mortar Age May Be Quietly Assimilated,” New York Times, October 8, 2001, www.­nytimes.­com/­2001/­10/­08/­business/­new-­economy-­despite-­its-­epochal-­name-­clicks-­mortar-­age-­may-­be-­quietly.­html­?

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness
Published 28 Mar 2010

His frustration stemmed from being expected to pay for the crew’s transportation both to and from the workshop (a whopping 20 cents per ride), even though Calfee bikes (i.e., the frame, front fork, and paint job) retail for no less than $2,000, with most hovering around the $3,000–$6,000 range. See “Ghana Bamboo Bike Journal, February 2008 Trip,” Calfee Design, available at http://www.calfeedesign.com/Ghana2008.htm. Thomas l. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (new york: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 537. The literal dogma of free market capitalism is perhaps best articulated by an executive at Opportunity international (the company formerly run by Eric Thurman, coauthor of A Billion Bootstraps): “Serving the poor is an act of worship.

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 31 Mar 2014

Kathryn Ware, “Coursera Co-founder Reports on First 10 Months of Educational Revolution,” UVA Today, February 21, 2013, http://curry.virginia.edu/articles/coursera-co-founder-reports -on-first-10-months-of-educational-revolution (accessed November 8, 2013); “Courses,” Coursera, 2013, https://www.coursera.org/courses, (accessed November 12, 2013). 14. Cindy Atoji Keene, “A Classroom for the Whole World,” Boston Globe, May 19, 2013, http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/specials/globe-100/2013/05/18/edx-president-anant-agarwal -aims-reach-billion-students-around-world/Kv5DZOiB0ABh84F4oM8luN/story.html (accessed October 30, 2013); Thomas L. Friedman, “Revolution Hits the Universities,” New York Times, January 26, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/friedman-revolution -hits-the-universities.html?_r=0 (accessed October 31, 2013). 15. Cadwalladr, “Do Online Courses Spell the End.” 16. Ibid. 17. Josh Catone, “In the Future, The Cost of Education Will Be Zero,” Mashable, July 24, 2013, http://mashable.com/2009/07/24/education-social-media/ (accessed August 6, 2013). 18.

Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
by George Gilder
Published 30 Apr 1981

hikes in inflation and inflationary effects of necessity for tax cuts policy progressive rates the rich and shelters women workers and See also Capital gains taxes taxflation tax-push concept tax revolt technostructure Tehran telecommunications tenure Texas Instruments Thatcher, Margaret That Used to Be Us (Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum) Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith) thermodynamics Third World Thomas, Franklin thrift paradox of Thurow, Lester Tiger, Lionel time, as capital role in upward mobility time pinch Tocqueville, Alexis de tokenism Tolstoy, Leo total capital formation Toxic Substances Control Act trade international policies transfer payments treasury guarantees Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Truman, Harry Trump, Donald Tucker, William Turkey Two Cheers for Capitalism (Irving Kristol) U underground economy unemployment among blacks among youth credentialism and demand-oriented politics and government approach to male in Massachusetts unemployment compensation The Unheavenly City (Edward Banfield) unions.

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
Published 4 Mar 2008

In spending over $100 million per year on education, Jordan spends more on education per student than almost any country in the world. 11. Muhamad Magraby, “Some Impediments to the Rule of Law in the Middle East and Beyond,” Fordham International Law Journal 26, no. 3 (March 2003): 777. 12. Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989), 214. 13. P. W. Singer, “Mike Tyson and the Hornet’s Nest: Military Lessons of the Lebanon Crisis,” Brookings Institution, August 1, 2006. 14. Muhamad Mugraby, “Lebanon, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary,” Middle East Quarterly, March 1998. 15.

The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
by Derek S. Hoff
Published 30 May 2012

Marc Linder, The Dilemmas of Laissez-Faire Population Policy in Capitalist Societies: When the Invisible Hand Controls Reproduction (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997), chap. 5. 14. Gunnar Myrdal, “Population Problems and Policies,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 197 (May 1938): 200. 15. Linder, Dilemmas of Laissez-Faire Population Policy, esp. preface. 16. Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). 17. For example, see Gary S. Becker, Edward L. Glaeser, and Kevin M. Murphy, “Population and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review 89 (May 1999): 145–49. 18.

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
by Quinn Slobodian
Published 16 Mar 2018

Quoted in Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Demo­cratic Capitalism (New York: Verso, 2014), 213. 4. Chakravarthi Raghavan, “Trade: The Empire Strikes Back,” SUNS—­South North Development Monitor, September 20, 1999; Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, ­Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000). 5. See Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-­First ­Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). 6. Rajesh Venugopal, “Neoliberalism as Concept,” Economy and Society 44, no. 2 (2015): 181. See also Bill Dunn, “Against Neoliberalism as a Concept,” Capital and Class, November 23, 2016, https://­doi​.­org​/­10​.­1177​/­0309816816678583. 7.

Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney , Benjamin Peters , Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip
Published 9 Mar 2021

Nathan Ensmenger, The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010). 40. Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2001); Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (New York: Viking, 2016); John Mark Newman, “The Myth of Free,” George Washington Law Review 86, no. 2 (October 2016), 513–586. 41.

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
by William J. Bernstein
Published 5 May 2009

Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), I: 17. 13. Paul Mellars, "The Impossible Coincidence. A Single-Species Model for the Origins of Modem Human Behavior in Europe," Evolutionary Anthropology, 14:1 (February, 2005): 12-27. 14. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). 15. Warmington, 35-39; see also William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples (New York: Anchor, 1998), 128. 16. Warmington, 279-284. See also Ian Carapace, review of Roman Coins from India (Paula J. Turner) in The Classical Review, 41 (January 1991): 264-265. 17.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov
Published 15 Nov 2013

Miller, “A Program for Direct and Proxy Voting in the Legislative Process,” Public Choice 7, no. 1 (1969): 107–113. 108 “the advancing technology of electronic computers”: ibid., 107. 108 “Instead of electing representatives periodically”: ibid., 108. 109 “The most concerned voter would vote”: ibid., 108. 109 Neither of them mentions: I’m thankful to Joshua Cohen for helping to crystallize my thinking on this issue. 109 Such plebiscites exert a paralyzing effect on the state: for an excellent discussion of plebiscite-driven politics, see Yannis Papadopoulos, “Analysis of Functions and Dysfunctions of Direct Democracy: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives,” Politics & Society 23 (December 1995): 421–448. 110 “what Amazon.com did to books”: Thomas L. Friedman, “Make Way for the Radical Center,” New York Times, July 23, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24friedman.html. 111 “10,000 clicks from 10 states”: Lawrence Lessig, “The Last Best Chance for Campaign Finance Reform: Americans Elect,” The Atlantic, April 25, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-last-best-chance-for-campaign-finance-reform-americans-elect/256361 . 111 Cue the Shirky-esque tone of Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks in 2008: see his interview with Sarah Lacy at SXSW 2008.

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind
Published 3 Sep 2018

Jamie Condliffe, ‘Chip Makers Admit Transistors Are About to Stop Shrinking’, MIT Technology Review, 25 July 2016 <https://www. technologyreview.com/s/601962/chip-makers-admit-transistorsare-about-to-stop-shrinking/?> (accessed 28 November 2017); Tom Simonite, ‘Moore’s Law is Dead. Now What?’ MIT Technology Review, 13 May 2016 <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/ moores-law-is-dead-now-what/> (accessed 28 November 2017); Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016), 43; Tim Cross, ‘Beyond Moore’s Law’, in Megatech: Technology in 2050, ed. Daniel Franklin (New York: Profile Books, 2017), 56–7. 52. Shanahan, Technological Singularity, 160; Kelly, What Technology Wants, 166. 53.

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
by Yascha Mounk
Published 26 Sep 2023

She did, however, express her hope that “Beyond the academy, the opportunity to present a counter-narrative to the premature societal settlement that marches under the banner of post-racialism is ripe” (Crenshaw, “Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory,” 1262). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Chapter 5: The Identity Synthesis Goes Mainstream “A three-minute call”: Friedman was quoting the price in 1996 dollars. In 2022 dollars, the price would have been about $559. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (London: HarperCollins, 1999), 8. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “weave the world together”: Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 8. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT likely to connect: Friedman even invoked his mother’s newfound pastime when, in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, he dismissed those who were skeptical of the internet’s positive potential.

Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay
Published 2 Jan 2009

We already have an airport like that, so why not get into the grocery business!’ ” We laughed, but it wasn’t that funny. America’s airports are a joke to its citizens, while foreign visitors see them as symptoms of some deeper malaise. LAX is bad enough, but New York’s airports are even worse. “Fly from Zurich’s ultramodern airport to La Guardia’s dump,” Thomas L. Friedman challenged his readers in The New York Times. “It is like flying from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.” The Financial Times’s John Gapper sin-gled out New York’s other airport: “If anyone doubts the problems of U.S. infrastructure, I suggest he or she take a flight to John F. Kennedy airport (braving the landing delay), ride a taxi on the pot-holed and congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and try to make a mobile phone call en route.”

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David Hoffman
Published 1 Jan 2009

Baker III, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995), pp. 614-616. This account is based on my notes and account in the Washington Post, "Atom Scientists at Ex-Soviet Lab Seek Help; Baker Hears Appeals on Tour of Arms Complex," Feb. 15, 1992, p. A1; Thomas L. Friedman, "Ex-Soviet Atom Scientists Ask Baker for West's Help," New York Times, Feb. 15, 1992, p. 1. 6 "Moscow Science Counselors Meeting," State Department cable, Jan. 31, 1992. 7 "Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD," CIA, Sept. 30, 2004. 8 Glenn E. Schweitzer, who became the first executive director of the science center, said these were his best estimates.

The Chomsky Reader
by Noam Chomsky
Published 11 Sep 1987

While he was regularly defended by Arafat against the “radicals” and rejectionists, his conflicts with them were sufficiently harsh so that he occasionally resigned from the National Council, with varying interpretations as to what had in fact occurred. See TNCW, pp. 443–44 for a mid-1981 example. See also Thomas L. Friedman, “A P.L.O. Moderate Resigns in Protest,” New York Times, February 21, 1983, reporting at length Sartawi’s resignation from the National Council once again after he was prevented from addressing the group (the resignation was not accepted; see Trudy Rubin, Christian Science Monitor, March 11, 1983; it is also worth noting that Labor party leader Shimon Peres had succeeded in preventing him from speaking at the Socialist International meeting, just prior to his assassination).

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara
Published 8 Jul 2019

Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982); Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010). 7. Thomas L. Friedman, “Silicon Valley’s ‘Underworld,’” The New York Times, December 3, 1981, B1; “Valley of Thefts,” Time, December 14, 1981, 66; D. T. Friendly and Paul Abramson, “In Silicon Valley, Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” Newsweek, May 12, 1980, 78. 8. Regis McKenna, interviews with the author, December 3, 2014, and May 31, 2016. 9.

Hard Landing
by Thomas Petzinger and Thomas Petzinger Jr.
Published 1 Jan 1995

Additional insights were obtained from an excellent reconstruction in Nance, Blind Trust. 5. after leaving Braniff: Though not affirming legal travails as the reason for his departure from Braniff, Acker provided the details of his post-Braniff career in the 6/3/93 interview. 6. reminded Acker of … Southwest: Ibid. 7. “worse than dope”: Quoted in “At the Controls of Pan Am,” by Thomas L. Friedman, NYT, Aug. 28, 1981. 8. controlling interest: Acker’s turnaround moves at Air Florida were detailed in the Acker interviews of 1/7/93 and 6/3/93 and, among other places, in “Air Florida, Soaring Out of Obscurity, Becomes Profitable, Feisty Contender,” by Roger Thurow, WSJ, Aug. 17, 1978; and Friedman, NYT, Aug. 28, 1981; “Air Florida’s Fortunes Soar in Six Market Areas,” by Joseph S.

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 6 Dec 2016

Fifty Shades of Chicken That’s the title of Shaun’s “most-gifted” book. Totally serious. I assumed it would be a complete joke, but it has nearly 700 reviews on Amazon and a 4.8-star average. The Law of Category “In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue.” —Thomas L. Friedman I constantly recommend that entrepreneurs read The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout, whether they are first-time founders or serial home-run hitters launching a new product. “The Law of the Category” is the chapter I revisit most often, and I’ve included a condensed version below.

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama
Published 11 Apr 2011

(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). 19 See Charles Gati, “Faded Romance,” American Interest 4, no. 2 (2008): 35–43. 20 Walter B. Wriston, The Twilight of Sovereignty (New York: Scribner, 1992). 21 This can be read, among other places, at http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration. 22 See the chapter “The Golden Straitjacket” in Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), pp. 99–108. 23 See, for example, Ron Paul, End the Fed (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009); Charles Murray, What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (New York: Broadway Books, 1997). 24 See Francis Fukuyama, ed., Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). 25 “Getting to Denmark” was actually the original title of Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock’s “Solutions When the Solution Is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development” (Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development Working Paper 10, 2002). 26 Economic growth theories under titles like Harrod-Domar, Solow, and endogenous growth theory, are severely reductionist and are of questionable value in explaining how growth actually happens in developing countries. 27 A number of observers have made this argument, beginning with Herbert Spencer in the nineteenth century, continuing through Werner Sombart, John Nef, and Charles Tilly.

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama
Published 29 Sep 2014

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (New York: Knopf, 1926); Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (London: Oxford University Press, 1972); Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987); Diamond, Collapse. 16. Samuel P. Huntington, “Political Development and Political Decay,” World Politics 17, (no. 3) (1965). 17. See Fukuyama, Origins of Political Order, chap. 2. 18. Diamond, Collapse, pp. 136–56. 19. See for example Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: Norton, 2003); Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012); Josef Joffe, The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies (New York: Liveright, 2014). 32: A STATE OF COURTS AND PARTIES 1.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes
Published 14 Sep 1999

If Naisbitt is right, the period of Japanese leadership will be one of the shortest in history. But what will follow? Where is leadership in a world of global enterprises? 12. Achavanuntakul, “Effects of Government Policies,” p. 9. According to the World Bank, inflation ran at 9.2 percent from 1970 to 1980, 4.2 percent from 1980 to 1992. 13. On all this, see Thomas L. Friedman, “Bangkok Bogs Down,” N.Y Times, 20 March 1996, p. A-19; and Kaplan, Ends of the Earth, pp. 380-82. The problem is aggravated by extensive and growing use of coal fuel, much of it lignite—the worst kind. On motorcades: Int. Herald-Tribune, 9 January 1997, p. 2. 14. On Model T diversity, see Flink, “Unplanned Obsolescence.” 15.

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris
Published 11 Oct 2010

Or perhaps I should say before the rains finally came: the active fire season in the western United States is now seventy-eight days longer than it was in the 1970s. The typical fire burns five times as long as it did thirty years ago. And firefighters predict worse to come. All this comes under the heading of what the journalist Thomas L. Friedman has called “the really scary stuff we already know.” Much worse is what he calls “the even scarier stuff we don’t know.” The problem, Friedman explains, is that what we face is not global warming but “global weirding.” Climate change is nonlinear: everything is connected to everything else, feeding back in ways too bewilderingly complex to model.

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Frank Trentmann
Published 1 Dec 2015

In 2004, quoted in Choon-Piew Pow, ‘Constructing a New Private Order: Gated Communities and the Privatization of Urban Life in Post-reform Shanghai’, in: Social & Cultural Geography (2007) 8/6, 813–33, at 826. 54. China Business Weekly, 7–13 Aug. 2006, 9. 55. http://residence.net.cn/main.htm. 56. 2004, quoted in Deborah Davis, ‘Urban Consumer Culture’, in: China Quarterly, 2005: 692–709, 706. See also: Deborah S. Davis, ed., The Consumer Revolution in Urban China (Berkeley, CA, 2000). 57. Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century (London, 2005). 58. Shunya Yoshimi, ‘Consuming America, Producing Japan,’ in: Garon & Maclachlan, eds., Ambivalent Consumer, 64. 59. Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity, esp. chs. 2–3. 60. Shunya Yoshimi, ‘Consuming America, Producing Japan’, in: Garon and Maclachlan, eds., Ambivalent Consumer, ch. 3.

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk
Published 2 Jan 2005

(n.) 470 “these people who were shot”: Interview with Bassam Abu Sharif, Ramallah, 8 August 2001. 474 “What should the residents”: Ha’aretz, 12 August 2001. 477 “There are qualities”: Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, interviewed by the author, Beirut to Bosnia: Muslims and the West, a Personal Journey by Robert Fisk of The Independent, dir. Michael Dutfield (Baraclough Carey/Chameleon), 1993, Episode 1, “The Martyr’s Smile.” (n.) 478 “as an Israeli”: Hass interview, 18 August 2001. (n.) 479 The most shameful explanation: See International Herald Tribune , 1 April 2002, “Suicide Bombers Threaten Us All,” by Thomas L. Friedman, reprinted from New York Times. (n.) 479 “we have been disturbed to find”: The Friend (London), 26 July 2002, also quoting Amnesty report from Gaza. 489 Some of Israel’s “targeted killing”: Vanity Fair, January 2003, “Israel’s Payback Principle,” by David Margolick. 489 “there is no language known”: Mail on Sunday (London), 23 September 2001, “You know the problem, now hear the facts,” by Stewart Steven. 489 “culture that glorifies depravity”: Irish Times, 6 October 2003, “Palestinian regime’s murky terror links,” by Mark Steyn. 490 called for the execution of family members: See Forward, 7 June 2002, “Top Lawyer Urges Death For Families of Bombers,” by Ami Eden.