Going global or going broke?

By Thomas Friedman Allen Lane €24.45 By John Ralston Saul Atlantic €24.45 THE WORLD IS FLAT THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBALISM

Never twist facts to fit theories, warned Sherlock Holmes. Rather, twist theories to fit facts. It sounds simple enough, but it's a lesson that many so-called intellectuals find remarkably difficult to grasp.

Here are two books by influential and well-respected writers, examining roughly the same facts and coming up with two diametrically opposed ...