David Bell on the Myth of American Decline  (Guest Post by
Matthew Ladner)  David Bell crushes a Thomas Friedman column in
the New Republic.   About these ads  14 Responses to David Bell
on the Myth of American Decline    1. Alsadius says:      That
cannot possibly be the right link.    2. matthewladner says:
OOOOOOPS! Fixed now.    3. Patrick says:      I wouldn’t say he
destroyed Friedman. Unless, of course, you consider Texas to
have been destroyed by Oklahoma 28-20…    4. matthewladner says:
5. Patrick says:      Matt still won’t talk to me after that
game…    6. Greg Forster says:      Meh. Color me unimpressed
with both Friedman and Bell. Friedman, who longs to live under
the Chinese jacknoot, is or course always indefensible and
beyond even the reach of parody. But Bell’s argument amounts to
“predictions of decline have been historically commonplace, and
they have sometimes come true but sometimes they haven’t, so we
shouldn’t take it for granted that we’re in decline just because
some people