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...Easterbrook is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book The Progress Paradox (Random House; 376 pages...
...Gregg Easterbrook on why Bush gets a bad rap on dirty...
...Easterbrook's new book, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, will be published in December
...Gregg Easterbrook's critique of NASA, "The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped," challenges us to come up with a new and improved game plan that takes into account today's financial and technological realities [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 10]. The manned space-flight program is a costly publicity stunt and a shameless boondoggle at a time when the U.S. government is struggling to cope with urgent public needs. Many will insist on sympathetic but unthinking cheerleading for the space program, but we have to come up with a leaner, fitter and more successful plan. JUSTIN WHITTINGTON Washington...
...peace of mind knowing if I was in an accident, I'd have a better chance of walking away. Everyone in my family feels that way. We all drive one." It's hard not to see such attitudes as evidence that a highway arms race has begun. Asks Gregg Easterbrook in a recent New Republic piece on SUVs: "Can it be a coincidence that road rage started to become a national concern in the mid-1990s, just as these pharaonic contraptions began flooding the roads?" (Perhaps he's right, but Easterbrook hurts his argument when he suggests SUV drivers have...