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This is exactly what’s happening. I despise these headlines that are couched with a mildly anti-American sentiment. You could easily re-write it to convey the f
by mberning 8y ago
This is exactly what’s happening. I despise these headlines that are couched with a mildly anti-American sentiment. You could easily re-write it to convey the fact that many parts of the world are experiencing great prosperity and development and thus scientific achievement. But no, let’s write as America is circling the drain.
Edit: looks like the title was updated
- coldtea 8y agoWell, a lot about America itself experiencing great prosperity and development was based on other parts of the world circling the drain (and thus sending immigrants there by the tons). Take out a lot of the motives for European scientists to go to the US in the mid/late 19th and early-mid 20th century for example, and how many scientific achievements would be left there?
- jgmjgm 8y agoThere really is a long-term productivity problem in the USA though. Edward Luce wrote a good book on the subject a couple of years back, "Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent". He's a journalist at the FT. That and his "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" are very well researched and readable. The book speaks to exactly these trends of decreasing productivity, loss of manufacturing and a decline in educational attainment of the US population as a whole. The book is not anti-American but a warning by someone who is concerned about the decline of America and the social and geo-political implications that implies.
- peoplewrong 8y agomeh my prior on british nationals writing about american decline is not very high...even if he did work for larry summers