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...Millstein was a passionate critic of Milton Friedman’s doctrine that the sole responsibility of companies was to make profits....
...That was an outcome of what were known as the Abraham Accords, which were negotiated by the Trump administration....
...Joining the ranks of Capturing the Friedmans, Catfish and The Imposter comes documentary My Old School, the story of a 30-year-old Scotsman who returned to his alma mater in 1993 posing as a 17-year-old...
...Also, a naive trust in the Tom Friedman ‘the world is flat’ fallacy (including the profound observation that no two countries that have a McDonald’s have ever gone to war with each other)....
...Packer’s title, Last Best Hope (of Earth), after a line from Abraham Lincoln, is thus ironic and earnest at the same time....
...A culture of virtue, as Abraham Briloff demonstrated in Unaccountable Accounting, may never have existed, yet promoting a sham version can only make matters worse....
...The Pompidou Centre in Paris has one and Friedman Benda Gallery showed another, priced $28,000, at Art Basel in June....
...Mr Friedman duly coined the phrase “the Dell Theory Of Conflict Prevention”: no two countries will go to war if they are part of the same global supply chain....
...Though originally proposed by Milton Friedman in 1955, these agreements have come into their own only in the past few years. The problems with the US’s student loan system scarcely need rehearsing....
...“This is the country we got from Abraham, so it’s our country.”...
...You know what Abraham Lincoln said about a house divided. And what happened after he said it (ok, for those who don’t: eventually, the civil war)....
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...Last week, in his column in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman broached a subject that nags at many Americans....
...as a speaker, Helen Friedman, took to the podium and held up a card: “Unmask the Mosque!”...
...Thomas Friedman describes Obama’s victory as the end of the American Civil War....
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