SOURCE: Filbin, Thomas. “Visas Not Required.” Hudson Review 53, no. 2 (summer 2000): 329-35.

In the following review, Filbin describes Headlong as witty, sardonic, engaging, and droll.

On a perfectly indolent June evening last year, my wife and I sat in a restaurant in Edinburgh enjoying the endless summer twilight in northern latitudes. The restaurant was Italian, our waiter was Bosnian, and with friends from Cheshire who had recently been to Crete and Botswana, we began musing about the new global economy. Our shoes were from Hungary or China, our clothes from Central America, and so on as we made an inventory. We flew back to Boston with tourists and businesspeople from everywhere, and as we arrived heard a song on the in-flight radio channel by a Glaswegian rock group named, appropriately enough at this point, “Texas.” If the world the free trade economists long for is nearly here, it makes...