did the costs of "externalities" like shattered communities and lives, foreclosed homes, toxic fear and resentment of "others" here and abroad, and vast disparities in wealth, health, life expectancy, etc. Many people did brilliantly. A judge told me recently that law students now expect to make $150,000 to $200,000 shortly after graduating, some of which they need to pay off huge student loans. Whether their orientation is good for our society, or for the law grads themselves, I'll let you consider in line with your own autobiographical expectations. But ex-U.S. senator Ernest Hollings this week, when accused of being a protectionist, said, more or less: Darn right I am. We protect our borders, our streets, our kids and our health. Why wouldn't we protect our jobs and our economy? The senator is 86. He grew up during the Depression and the New Deal. Action ... reaction.*************************************************************Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization, Larry Rohter, August 3.When Tesla Motors, a pioneer in electric-powered cars, set out to make a luxury roadster for the American market, it had the global supply chain in mind. Tesla planned to manufacture 1,000-pound battery packs in Thailand, ship them to Britain for installation, then bring the mostly assembled cars back to the United States. But when it began production this spring, the company decided to make the batteries and assemble the cars near its home base in California, cutting more than 5,000 miles from the shipping bill for each vehicle.It was kind of a no-brain decision for us, said Darryl Siry, the companys senior vice president of global sales, marketing and service. A major reason was to avoid the transportation costs, which are terrible.The world economy has become so integrated that shoppers find relatively few T-shirts and sneakers in Wal-Mart and Target carrying a Made in the U.S.A. label. But globalization may be losing some of the inexorable economic power it had for much of the past quarter-century, even as it faces fresh challenges as a political ideology.Cheap oil, the lubricant of quick, inexpensive transportation links across the world, may not return anytime soon, upsetting the logic of diffuse global supply chains that treat geography as a footnote in the pursuit of lower wages. Rising concern about global warming, the reaction against lost jobs in rich countries, worries about food safety and security, and the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva last week also signal that political and environmental concerns may make the calculus of globalization far more complex. If we think about the Wal-Mart model, it is incredibly fuel-intensive at every stage, and at every one of those stages we are now seeing an inflation of the costs for boats, trucks, cars, said Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. That is necessarily leading to a rethinking of this emissions-intensive model, whether the increased interest in growing foods locally, producing locally or shopping locally, and I think thats great.Many economists argue that globalization will not shift into reverse even if oil prices continue their rising trend. But many see evidence that