Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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For example, as crime has gone down, media reports have continued to focus on crime, with the result that many people feel crime is getting worse.

Between 1965 and 1975, more than two-thirds of the members of Congress had served their country in uniform. I benefited from being born in a time and place of unprecedented prosperity with a host of advantages, most of them circumstantial. In Adrift, NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway looks to the past – from 1945 to present day – to explain just how America arrived at this precipice. He is a Podcaster, including: Pivot — Every Tuesday and Friday, Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. But herein lies the dilemma: we also rely on news media to help us navigate the false claims and fake news that spread like wildfire around the world on the speedy pathways of the internet.He even offers his take on what it will take to "fix" things -- if only there was the political will to accomplish the recommended changes.

While I myself am so far Left I could almost fall off, I appreciate a non-biased view when looking at something like this.Spending more time on screens means investing more of our lives in online platforms - including our love lives. Connection to others and interaction with them is also a key part of building tolerance for those who look or believe differently from us.

Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. You've got folks like Galloway on one side, painting everything black, and then there's an equal number of doom-mongers on the other side. There's a section in the book on fake news, and another on lack of trust in media, and statements like that fit here. Lost positions of dominance — The arrival of superior Japanese cars on American roads revealed that our manufacturing base had lost its way. It’s a country struggling to adapt to revolutionary changes in technology, facing deep economic and political divisions and threats of extremism, and quickly losing ground to rivals like China.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It's good to see someone of his class, in his business put forward an earnest case like this but it fails to convince thoroughly because of the choice of format. Galloway makes a reasonable but facile case for his take on enlightened capitalism - a small 'c' conservativism that seeks to strike a balance between the driving innovation (which is what the accumulation of capital should do) vs ensuring public weal (routinely at odds with the short-term thinking driving 'shareholder value').For example, Rivian’s mission statement is “If our planet is to continue to sustain life and enchant future generations, we must change……This is where Rivian’s potential lies.