Charlie Rose

Gelles  01/19/2012 02:54 PM Report

John Feinstein loves a good story --and has learned well how to write one, or tell it spontaneously from his prodigious memory.

Sports stories have been his specialty. He now threatens to add politics to his beat. He finds in any story the "point" it may make. That is his talent. He is blessed with enough of it to be recognized as a professional.

Politics is seen by Americans as a horse race. It is not seen as reforms waiting to be adopted -- waiting to improve the common lot.

I have been writing about constraints on employment of machines and people imposed by misunderstanding the function of money -- where and when over-production constrains economic growth. This is our curse, even as under-production constrains both consumption and democracy itself.

Well, it's income tax season again. The nuttiest time of the year. Vote for me, I'll abolish all direct taxes and all taxpayer reporting of anything at all. How will it all work? It will demand plain language and careful plans that work.

REMant  01/19/2012 11:11 AM Report

Is the fact the majority of their players in programs such as Knight's graduated and been successful so bad? What I remember about Valvano is watching a very late first round game which must have been the season his team went on to win the championship. It seemed interminable. NC St was down around a dozen points with only seconds left. They kept fouling. The other team, which I can't recall - Pepperdine, it must have been - kept missing free throws and losing the ball, and they literally clawed back. It was an astonishing win, and one of the few times I can recall when fouling in the last seconds of a game actually paid off. But his students never did as well as Knight's, Smith's or Krzyzewski's.