Monday, February 10, 2003
THE TWO FACES OF AMERICA. We're tops (among industrialized nations) in both GDP and poverty, in university graduates and homicide (and in all other sorts of things). What do we do if these facts are correlates rather than anomalies? In other words, if having higher homicide rates is the price paid for having the most college grades, is the price worth paying? In other words, as observed by the author of this piece: "To a remarkable degree the United States seems to have exchanged social cohesion and a broad-based middle class for economic dynamism and personal freedom." Is this what we really want?
