There's Been A Growing Effort To Kick

The Market Is A Tool, And A Useful One. But The Worship Of This Tool Is A Hollow Faith. Far More Important Than Any Tool Is What You Make With It.

The History Of The Twentieth Century Was Dominated By The Struggle Against Totalitarian Systems Of State Power. The Twenty-first Will No Doubt Be Marked By A Struggle To Curtail Excessive Corporate Power.

There's Been A Growing Effort To Kick Soda Out Of The Schools. And Governors As Different As Arnold Schwarzenegger In California And Mike Huckabee In Arkansas Have Worked Hard To Get Soda And Junk Food Out Of Their State Schools, Which Is Good.

Future Historians, I Hope, Will Consider The American Fast Food Industry A Relic Of The Twentieth Century--a Set Of Attitudes, Systems, And Beliefs That Emerged From Postwar Southern California, That Embodied Its Limitless Faith In Technology, That Quickly Spread Across The Globe, Flourished Briefly, And Then Receded, Once Its True Costs Became Clear And Its Thinking Became Obsolete.

A Generation Ago, Three-quarters Of The Money Used To Buy Food In The United States Was Spent To Prepare Meals At Home. Today About Half Of The Money Used To Buy Food Is Spent At Restaurants--mainly At Fast Food Restaurants.