Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN in the NY Times regarding decline

by Kaitlin Hopkins 01/11/2010

If you read them carefully, you’ll notice that their visions aren’t entirely incompatible. Kotkin focuses on America’s enduring economic strengths: Our demographic balance (which compares favorably to Europe and Asia alike), our still-vast natural resources, our entrepreneurial culture, our ability to assimilate immigrants, and so on. Deneen emphasizes the weakening of our liberal political order, with its threefold emphasis on liberty, equality and prosperity.

Joel in the NY Times

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