Author sees stark choice: Serve society, or sell out

In his new book, The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All-America (Times Books), Brook argues that while small luxuries from sangria to Ikea may come cheap these days, the ballooning costs of education, housing and health care are likely to drive talented twentysomethings into a Faustian bargain with corporate America....Simply accepting that the rich will always get richer, and that they will dominate our educational and political systems, ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

This review, in it's lack of data from the book, left me wanting more.

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Julian Friedland
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by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008

Revealing interview on a disquieting change in our society.

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Rebecca Hale
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by Rebecca Hale - Oct. 1, 2008

While the author claims to be an observer he falls into the trap of labelling "Ivy League" graduates as the best and the brightest. Since the basis for the whole imbalance is the bully-heavy "top layer" of society, we need to infer that the wealthiest, those most able to afford Ivy League schools, are not de facto the best, brightest, most talented and most important members of our culture.

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Judith Davidsen
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by Judith Davidsen - Oct. 1, 2008

This is an interview, not a review, and the interviewer and apparently the interviewee are unaware that people have been jailed and even killed for working to advance society. This article is on a very important topic, but it's blinkered.

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Patricia Blochowiak
4.2
by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

This is an effective teaser for "The Trap," which just entered my "must read" list above the middle.

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