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President Barack Obama couldn't resist descending into demagoguery during his farewell address Tuesday night.
It was billed as an uplifting, forward-looking speech, and if you look past the rhetorical tricks he used to make it look as if his administration has brought us prosperity, you could say it was.
Gentle reader, if the feverish pace of change in technology, globalization and climate change both fascinates and frightens you, read Tom Friedman's new book, Thank You for Being Late. His forensic examination and farsighted explanation of the acceleration of everything is an exercise in expeditionary learning and his prescription for adapting to this new world disorder should also appeal to conservatives.
Friedman, a New York Times columnist, is perceived to be as progressive as the paper he writes for. But that assessment doesn't apply here. As he described it last year, he belongs to the party of "nonpartisan extremism" and his political alignment is "to the far left and the far right at the same time."