Nation Building

Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Flat is the Foreign Affairs columnist for the New York Times. His latest op-ed discusses nation-building in America: Who Will Tell the People?

We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents’ generation — work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means — have given way to subprime values: “You can have the American dream — a house — with no money down and no payments for two years.”

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