November 12, 2003
On Friedman on wheels
New York Press, which bills itself as "New York's premier alternative newspaper," if that tells you anything, has a rather interesting article that provides a bit of cross-analysis of much of Thomas Friedman's work. For those of you who don't know, Friedman is a centrist-to-conservative commentator at the New York Times and one of the biggest supporters of US action in Iraq. Apparently he has something of a fixation with cars. I don't really like the tone of the article, especially in the past paragraph, but it is pretty funny for all of that. Check it out.
Funny, in all the Friedman stuff I've read, I don't recall a particular affinity for car or wheel metaphors over any others.
I think that the best of his writing was his massive book From Beiruit to Jerusalem about his time covering the Lebanese civil war and the period after the war.
Posted by: kathryn at November 12, 2003 06:26 PM