Thomas Friedman

Revenge of the Balkans
The National Interest Online, DC - 23 hours ago
Thomas Friedman put the matter into perspective when he recently asked “Wasn’t consolidating a democratic Russia more important than bringing the Czech Navy ...

Their future, in any language
Denver Post, CO - Aug 27, 2008
... an independent language-program consultant based in Washington, DC "I'm fond of quoting Thomas Friedman, who says the next generation has to be the best ...

Stand by the Man
Slate - Aug 27, 2008
While Ignatius is guardedly optimistic in Damascus, the NYT's Thomas Friedman is depressed in Beijing. Friedman attended the closing ceremony of the ...

The End of the End of the End of History?
Inside Higher Ed, DC - Aug 27, 2008
(Thomas Friedman does not seem like a big reader of Kant, but his thinking here bears some passing resemblance to the philosopher’s “Idea for a Universal ...

Education officials to get refresher course
Morning Sentinel, maine - Aug 25, 2008
... by New York Times writer Thomas Friedman. In the book, Friedman sounded the alarm of how fiber-optic wizardry has leveled the economic playing field, ...

Where you live may be most important decision
TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - Aug 24, 2008
Thus, when you layer together maps of population density, economic activity and innovation, the flat world of the well-known author Thomas Friedman becomes ...

New UWM engineering dean helps guide expansion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 23, 2008
He is a self-described fan of globalization books by Thomas Friedman, author of “The World is Flat.” He helped coordinate the construction of a $6.1 million ...

The Selfish Hegemon Must Offer a New Deal on Trade
American Enterprise Institute, DC - Aug 21, 2008
Further, they believe that if one could only stand Thomas Friedman of "flat earth" fame on his head and flatten the earth by raising these countries' labour ...

The Military and the Monetary,
Toward Freedom, VT - 22 hours ago
As pro-free market US journalist Thomas Friedman succinctly put it: "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist - McDonald’s cannot ...

High oil prices are inevitable in the future
Sify, India - Aug 19, 2008
And while trade liberalisation and technology may have "flattened the world" (in the words of author Thomas Friedman), rising transport prices will 'once ...

The rise of the Third World
Napa Valley Register, CA - Aug 18, 2008
I was thinking about Thomas Friedman's book, "The World is Flat" and a Paul Krugman piece about the Georgia situation and the global economy. ...

Featuring the next generation of energy ideas
ScienceBlogs - Aug 18, 2008
Consider New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's latest lamentations over the failure of Congress to renew the tax credits that have allegedly been ...

Metrolink sets ridership record, candidates don't talk traffic and ...
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 18, 2008
Fair enough, but you may also want to check out Thomas Friedman's recent column in the NYT about McCain missing a key vote -- missing it eight times, ...

Geographer says troubled globe is far from flat
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK - Aug 17, 2008
His book is the latest salvo in the backlash that began after journalist Thomas Friedman published his groundbreaking book on the effects of globalization ...

VOICES | Something spectacular is going to happen
Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota - Aug 16, 2008
New York Time columnist Thomas Friedman wrote, “We don’t have a ‘gasoline price problem.’ We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil ...

Book says that where you're born will determine the type of life ...
Daily Gleaner, Canada - 16 hours ago
His book is the latest salvo in the backlash that began after journalist Thomas Friedman published his groundbreaking book on the effects of globalization ...

India of Western dreams
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 3 hours ago
To be fair to Bush, he was only repeating a cliche deployed by Indian politicians and American pundits such as Thomas Friedman to promote India as a ...

US develops 'techno-peasants' in place of capable workers, author says
News-Leader.com, MO - Aug 15, 2008
"The 2010 Meltdown" echoes many ideas that have been brought out in "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. Both authors make it clear that if American ...

Our differences are power if we learn to channel them effectively
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Aug 14, 2008
Just as Thomas Friedman describes in his best-selling book, the world really is flat. In today’s outsourced, podcast, blogging, Blackberry world, ...

Review: 'The Power of Place,' by Harm de Blij
Daily Camera, CO - 44 minutes ago
His book is the latest salvo in the backlash that began after journalist Thomas Friedman published his groundbreaking book on the effects of globalization, ...