Program this purports to be tom friedman. [laughing] tom ace young but it still looks like hes accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing the research and speaking to people and every station of life, in every walk of life, and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounters often today in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the products of real reporting and serious reflection. A themselves, all too rare. Those qualities can be found in his previous bestselling books and youes can find them again in toms latest. Thank you bring late. When the editor in chief of bloomberg and the former editor of the economist wrote his review of his book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people. Among the central sub