Some of the day’s best reads:
- William Galston thinks Democrats are making a mistake by moving on to immigration and climate change: “While the temptation to adopt a strategy of targeted micro-politics is understandable, Democrats should instead espouse a strategy of macro-politics focused on broad-based public concerns.”
- Matt Miller offers Goldman Sachs some advice: “After this week it’s pretty clear what the first line of Blankfein’s obituary is set to read. All the money in the world can’t change that. Inspired acts of corporate statesmanship still might.”
- George Packer doesn’t think much of Politico‘s Mike Allen and the journalism he represents: “In the inner circle of the inner circle of American journalism, no one is right or wrong, politics has no bearing on life, and nothing lasts longer than a day.”
- Third Way’s Matt Bennett and Josh Freed bang the drum for a carbon price: “Placing a price on carbon allows American markets to do what they do best: invest money in promising businesses and ideas, just as we have with biotechnology and the Internet.”
- Francis Fukuyama interviews Henry Paulson, Jr. in the new issue of The American Interest.
