Op-Ed Columnist – The Nation of Futurity – NYTimes.com.
With all the talk of impending Chinese superiority and waning American exceptionalism, let’s not forget that this isn’t anywhere near the first real “competitor” crisis or the first serious recession or worse in American history. Somehow, historians and alarmists always miss the point about what makes this [...]
Op-Ed Columnist – The Protocol Society – NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist – The Protocol Society – NYTimes.com.
Interesting thoughts on how society has moved away from making “stuff” to wringing the last dollar out of every promising new idea. I’m not really certain that Brooks is actually proscribing anything in terms of changes in fundamental economics here, but he does note that due to non-homogeneous [...]