So back to the PoMoCon podcast—here’s an interview with David Goldman, who brings together three very unlikely epithets: He’s a polymath, he’s an economist, & he’s very serious about foreign policy, China especially. It’s primarily the third matter that occupied us in our conversation—China & America, the major modern models of continental assimilation. Super-powers with opposing ways of life, both tested by the arrival of digital technology. This is only the beginning of a series, but listen to David & you’ll say to yourself, what a beginning!
For those who do not know him, David writes for the Asia Times primarily, perhaps following that most important rule of American journalism, that talented individuals with a striking personality should be ostracized. But you can also find his name, sporadically, yet inevitably, in every important political & cultural journals on the conservative side of America for the last generation.