I Think There's Great Potential For Autonomy,

People Getting Their Fundamental Interests Wrong Is What American Political Life Is All About.

As You Watch The World Crumble, Try Taking Your Armageddon With This Sprinkling Of Irony: Over The Last Three Decades, Business Has Got Virtually Everything It Wanted, And Its Doomsday Scenario From The 1970s Has Come True Because Of It.

Vibrancy Is So Universally Desirable, So Totemic In Its Powers, That Even Though We Aren't Sure What The Word Means, We Know The Quality It Designates Must Be Cultivated. The Vibrant, We Believe, Is What Makes Certain Cities Flourish.

Every City Is Either Vibrant These Days Or Is Working On A Plan To Attain Vibrancy Soon. The Reason Is Simple: A City Isn't Successful - Isn't Even A City, Really - Unless It Can Lay Claim To Being 'vibrant.'

Money Never Seems To Be Interested In Strengthening Regulatory Agencies, For Example, But Always In Subverting Them, In Making Them Miss The Danger Signs In Coal Mines And In Derivatives Trading And In Deep-sea Oil Wells.