Link Banana

This David Brooks column, like his recent one of Rank-Link Imbalance, seems a tad to generic for it’s own good. But I liked this bit:

But the new do-gooders have absorbed the disappointments of the past decades. They have a much more decentralized worldview. They don’t believe government on its own can be innovative. A thousand different private groups have to try new things. Then we measure to see what works.

It strikes me as a good counterargument to Thomas Friedman’s slightly silly concerns in “Generation Q”, which I took issue with at the time.