Since when is bigness goodness?

Bill Safire‘s value is that he can be unpredictable. Doesn’t this sound more Naomi Klein than paid-up Republican: “Why should we supinely go along with the seizure of economic power by today’s triopolies and duopolies on their march to becoming tomorrow’s monopolies?”

I also appreciated him being right on the mark about where innovation takes place. “Only the monster conglomerate can afford to invest in new technologies, complaisant Washington regulators tell us — as if innovation and invention were not also found in small laboratories and the brains of creative loners.”