MATT WELCH: Today’s Thomas L. Friedman column is a familiar if distasteful brew of what-Americans-want ventriloquism and public policy by bumper sticker. Emphasis on the word “familiar.”

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes: “That last paragraph of Welch’s post had me laughing aloud. Every college or university professor who has quietly endured serial idiocies emanating from a student utterly convinced of their brilliance understands the emotion driving that paragraph.”