{"id":937,"date":"2004-11-29T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/reading_the_times\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:37:46","slug":"reading_the_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/reading_the_times.html","title":{"rendered":"READING THE TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>With his latest column, <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/27\/opinion\/27brooks.html?hp\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Good News About Poverty,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><br \/>\nDavid &#8220;Bobo&#8221; Brooks continues his wayward adventures in idiocy.<\/P>Making the case for<br \/>\nglobalization, he points to the &#8220;spectacular decline in poverty in East and South Asia&#8221; as evidence<br \/>\nthat the world&#8217;s poorer nations are leading a global economic surge. How so? Well, of roughly<br \/>\n472 million people living on less than $1 a day in 1990, about 200 million have graduated to less<br \/>\nthan extreme poverty (perhaps $2 a day).<br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Accordingly, when life on $3 a day (or, miracle of miracles, $4 a day) becomes a reality for<br \/>\nhundreds of millions in the distant future, we can expect a column headlined &#8220;Superspectacular<br \/>\nNews About Poverty.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Meantime, his colleague Nicholas &#8220;On-the-One-Hand-on-the-Other-Hand&#8221; Kristof offers<br \/>\nmore of his adventures in equivocation with <I>his<\/I> latest column, <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/27\/opinion\/27kristof.html?hp\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Saving the Iraqi Children.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>And by the way, don&#8217;t miss <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/27\/nyregion\/27terror.html?hp&#038;ex=1101618000&#038;en=ad4\nd957fe514e3aa&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Ashcroft&#8217;s house of cards<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his latest column, &#8220;Good News About Poverty,&#8221; David &#8220;Bobo&#8221; Brooks continues his wayward adventures in idiocy.Making the case for globalization, he points to the &#8220;spectacular decline in poverty in East and South Asia&#8221; as evidence that the world&#8217;s poorer nations are leading a global economic surge. How so? Well, of roughly 472 million people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}