David Brooks of the NYT bases his last article on a book to be published soon that is written by by Daniel Kahnemann. As David sees it, the book is an injunction against the very solid belief in planning and the general tendency to assume that what is planned is carried out and that the results of a planned process are superior. He uses the lessons from the book to analyse the goings-on in the US today and concludes that the nature of political leadership means that problems must be tackled even when solutions are not at hand and where government intervention is not likely to yield a quick or sure solution. A good piece from a journalist whose articles often predictably start from objective observations and then end up with a conservative pill as the solution.
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