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Thomas Friedman

Have we lost our moorings as a society?

John Fea   |  May 29, 2024

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman thinks so, and he makes some pretty good points. Here is a taste of his column, “How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society“: …Almost 30 years ago I visited the Atlantic Forest in Brazil with […]

They were wrong

John Fea   |  July 22, 2022

New York Times opinion columnists tell us what they got wrong: In our age of hyperpartisanship and polarization, when social media echo chambers incentivize digging in and doubling down, it’s not easy to admit you got something wrong. But here […]

Biden-Cheney in 2024?

John Fea   |  January 12, 2022

Tom Friedman floats the idea in his New York Times column. His model is Israel. Here is a taste: Could this play come to Broadway? I asked Steven Levitsky, a political scientist and co-author of “How Democracies Die,” after he presented some […]