rating: 3 of 5 stars
I’ve always liked Fareed Zakaria’s columns in Newsweek a lot. He always offers a balanced look at America’s interaction with our globe-mates. I enjoyed this book a lot, especially the sections comparing America’s rise to power with Britain’s, and the entire chapters on both China and India. Some critics were down on this book because they say he doesn’t offer a solution to the Iraq issue. Well… if someone was able to come up with a nice easy fix there, don’t you think they’d already be a national superstar? Anyway, this book lays out the current status of our country’s place in the world nicely, and offers some definite insight into the things we can do to maintain our status as the global superpower, even during the “rise of the rest.”
TV Gal offers an early look at her picks by network
- For the record, I disagree with some of her feelings (for example, I LOVE Pushing Daisies and liked Bionic Woman enough to watch it again. But TV Gal and I have had this love-hate thing before… We totally agree on things like The Office, Lost and 24, but she has never really liked Heroes.
Feist was on Letterman on Monday night with an all-star indie rock chorus backing her up. Members of the chorus include AC Newman of New Pornographers fame and members of Mates of State, The National, Grizzly Bear and Broken Social Scene!
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria