Thomas L. Friedman is a journalist, a prize-winner three times for the prestigious Pulitzer prize, a specialist in the Middle East and of us foreign policy and columnist at the New York Times. Also a writer, he focused on the phenomenon of globalization in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, as of 1999 and in The Earth is flat in 2004. On the occasion of the release in French of his book Thank you to be late (Saint-Simon), we wanted to know what he thinks of the current crisis and how it will influence the major trends that have marked our time until…