Thirty years later. Vogel had a point. Just the title was wrong.
A more competitive America, he says, needs a much stronger government, an elite civil service composed of “the ablest young people of their generation” and a White House staffed by these new mandarins. Moral pressure needs to be felt again by Americans to bind their fragmented society together. “In the guise of pursuing freedoms, we have supported egoism and self-interest and have damaged group or common interests...we are more concerned with the rights of the deviant than the rights of the responsible citizen.
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From the archive: One side of the success story | The Economist
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