View From The Top: Thomas Friedman

Author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman spoke to a Stanford audience about the themes of his new book, "That Used To Be Us," which explores the reasons for U.S. decline in the 21st century and offers solutions to preserve American power in the world.

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[Robert Young]

Only a fool believes in the purity of the market. We need leadership to point us in the right direction. Government needs to be more efficient but there is no other way. Time to wake up and read and think. The government needs to spend on infrastructure and to take over the health care problems.

[Michael Chang]

15:38 so your telling me Mt. Everest is the worlds tallest building?

[smartcookie76]

I like Friedman, but some of his wordings are a bit too cutesy & sweet in this talk. 

[mike37405]

Has anyone tracked this guy's record to see if he is ever right about anything?

[PfctvsPontivsPilatvs]

There is no big government true liberalism. just big government / big business Neoliberalism, big government / big military-industrial Neoconservatism and big government Theoconservatism.

[TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Thomas Friedman is a more pernicious influence on American public opinion than Limbaugh, Beck and Coulter combined.

[Entropy56]

The ignorant idiot Freidman still thinks big government Liberalism is the answer to America, which got us in this mess in the first place.

[GrandMasterFreshMpls]

6,381 now!!!!!!!!!!!

[metakabu]

Also, he fetishises anecdotes in his books and articles. This is done to 'dumb down' everything into a nice little story but it's not clever and it is actually quite ugly and vulgar. The people who follow Friedman remind me of people who think TED is great. Intellect is a form of entertainment to them.