<p>In Fareed Zakaria’s new book, The Post-American World, Mr. Zakaria argues that we are living through the third great power shift in modern history. Here’s a link to an excerpt in Newsweek entitled “The Rise of the Rest.” It’s a thought-provoking read.</p>
<p>[Excerpt:</a> Zakaria?s ?The Post-American World? | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/135380]Excerpt:”>Excerpt: Zakaria's 'The Post-American World')</p>
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<p>love the book</p>
<p>His stuff is always thought provoking. His show is excellent.</p>
<p>I must say I was distressed to learn about the alleged plagiarism.</p>
<p>How much of the book did he steal from other people?</p>
<p>I think he is alleged to have copied others in some of the Time articles he has written. I don’t know of any allegations about his book.</p>
<p>Isn’t Mr. Zakaria somewhat (extremely) liberal? From reading some of his articles when they appear in TIME, his views are pretty liberal. As such, is this book extremely biased?</p>
<p>His views are really all over the map. He’s far from “extremely liberal”. He’s center-left on most things but his interviews tend to be pretty unbiased. He’s one of the few reporters/commentators I can stand listening to. </p>
<p>I like reading Zakaria’s pieces and listening to his interviews. I sincerely hope the plagiarism was a one-time thing or else I’d be incredibly disappointed.</p>
<p>I will have to look into this book. </p>
<p>Wonder why a 4 year old thread was bumped.</p>
<p>I wonder the same thing, romani. Someone joins today and immediately bumps a four year old thread. Odd.</p>
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<p>I agree. His views are sort of unpredictable which is part of what makes his show interesting. </p>
<p>I didn’t realize the OP was from 4 years ago.</p>
<p>I just downloaded it to listen to at work. We’ll see how it is!</p>
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<p>Obviously, the bump is related to the recent plagiarism issues, which are rather unfortunate. His views are indeed all over the map, and that makes him extremely interesting. Despite the fact that one could call him a liberal, his liberalism is similar that of many immigrants and new US citizens who have learned to see the negatives of policies that range from the extreme left to the extreme right, and look at the US from a more balanced view that defies easy labels. </p>
<p>It would be a shame to lose his voice on the air (or in print) for having lifted too many words from people he (obviously) admired enough to “quote.”</p>
<p>PS For instance, his coverage over the past years of the violence and turmoil in Mexico has been one of the best. In great contrast to the typical drivel produced by CNN.</p>
<p>I’m confused as to how that is obvious. Random threads get bumped all the time. I doubt very much razor or soccer created a fake account to bump this to discuss the plagiarism.</p>
<p>The plagiarism brought new attraction to Zakaria’s (now older) book.</p>
<p>I didn’t even look at the date in the OP… otherwise I would’ve made a comment about someone playing thread necro, lol</p>
<p>I mean the thread only had one post, why not just start a new one?</p>
<p>I assure you the thread-bumper was not me, hahahahaha</p>