Author Jared Diamond argues that Mitt Romney’s controversial comments about Israeli culture, which featured a reference to his own book, misrepresent his work in a New York Times op-ed Thursday. Diamond sets the record straight with a brief summary of his own thesis, arguing that both geography and culture play a role in a nation’s successes.
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