Volume 52, Number 13 · August 11, 2005
The World Is Round
By John Gray
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,488 pp., $27.50
The belief that a process of globalization is underway which is bringing about a fundamental change in human affairs is not new. Marx and Engels expressed it in 1848, when they wrote in a justly celebrated passage in The Communist Manifesto:
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