Time to Start Thinking

This look at the crisis facing the United States “explores the gaping disconnect between elite optimism and popular bewilderment, anger, and despair” ( Foreign Affairs ).   “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.” —Sir Ernest Rutherford   In a book destined to spark debate among both liberals and conservatives, journalist Edward Luce advances a carefully constructed argument, backed up by interviews with key players in politics and business, that America is