Innovation and safety nets

Here is a complex and thought provoking essay (one of columnist David Brooks' Sydney award winners) for 2009. In these pages, Jim Manzi argues that the US faces a major tension between open market capitalism that has a track record of spawning innovation on the one hand and the efforts to create the safety nets and equity likely to make a cohesive and just society. Not a quick read -- but a worthy one.

Dennie Palmer Wolf