I read the NYTimes every day, and I notice that Thomas Friedman has been a lot less soapboxy lately, since globalization and the global economy went to hell, and the flatness of his world has made it impossible to keep......

By Tom Wilkinson Director, GM News Relations In “Utopia,” Sir Thomas More proposed replacing the grit and struggle of Tudor England with an island in the Atlantic free from war, poverty and lawyers. In his column, “Start up the Risk-Takers,” Thomas Friedman proposes replacing...

Thomas Friedman talking to his taxi driver in Jenin:Tom: What do you think of my ideas on how to achieve a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict? Driver: I think you're an idiot. Are you going to quote me in your column? Tom: Not this time.And yet somehow it's hard to avoid the simple wisdom o...

In Don’t try this at home, Thomas Friedman unnecessarily complicates the Middle East. For one thing he makes a fundamental mistake. In recent days, some have questioned whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was making a big mistake in appointing so many “special envoys,” such ...

It does not get much more humble than a safety match, but through its history the forces at work in globalization are rather clear demonstrated. The world's match industry dates to the nineteenth century. In 1827, the friction match was invented by a British chemist John Walker using potassium chlor...