The Atlantic’s fantastic James Fallows has a great essay in this month’s issue about America from the perspective of having just lived a year and a half in China.He compares it with living in England after college (he doesn’t gloat, but he was on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford) and to the rise and collapse of Japan.He beautifully articulates a vision of the U.S., what the U.S. should aim to be, and throws in some truly insightful observations on the future geopolitical structure of the world.Convocation speaker anyone?
Fallows on the American Idea
The Atlantic’s fantastic James Fallows has a great
By Alec Brandon
October 19, 2007
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