A talk, from last month.

The whole hour-plus is worth it, but if you only have a few minutes, please at least start here.

Jeffrey Sachs, maybe the smartest and most humane servant of the American big house ever, starts the clip by pleading with his friends in Europe to not follow the US off a cliff, or even start to become what the US already is.

He is old, and clearly a little tired; bereft of any more optimism, but he still speaks the truth and tries to appeal to the best in us regardless.

Perhaps you will listen as I chose to, for whatever point-free reasons of your own that evolve.