Thomas Friedman’s suggestion that funding for innovation is broken and the government should step in is far off the mark. Neither is it substantially broken, nor is the alternative he proposes any better.
Ever wonder how ideas proliferate, gather momentum, and then are taken as fact? Take climate change. Regardless of its factual basis, it was not mainstream even in the late 1990s. From whence did it come?
I did some research that presents insights into how climate change as an issue has evolved. But its even more revealing [...]