Adam Tooze
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1,033 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 17 Sep
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There's this quote from the Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci that has been making the rounds a lot over the past few years.
It goes, the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying, but the new cannot be born.
In this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
There's also a looser translation of that last line that you hear sometimes, now is the time of monsters.
It sure feels like the time of monsters.
It sure feels like a time of morbid symptoms.
In our last episode, we talked about how Davos last week seemed to be this wake-up moment for the world when Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, said in his speech that we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
You then turn on the TV and you watch agents of the American government killing protesters on the streets of Minneapolis.
I cannot think of a week when it is felt clearer that not just the old order is dying, but the old order is dead.
I cannot think of a week where it has been more obvious that there are monsters.
In our last episode, I spoke to the foreign affairs scholar Henry Farrell about how the way America operates in the world has changed, what we have done to rupture this order.
But for this episode, I wanted to turn to the forward-looking question.
What, if anything, is struggling to be born here?
Adam Tooze is a historian at Columbia University.
He is a thinker and chronicler of crisis.
The Guardian recently dubbed him the crisis whisperer.
He's written a number of books about moments when the systems fall apart and new orders emerge, among them, Crashed, how a decade of financial crises changed the world.
He's got the excellent Substack chart book, and he had a front row seat to the chaos at Davos last week, even moderating this panel with, among others, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary.
But Tuise has also been on a personal quest, I've been watching and reading long, to try to understand the role of China in all this.
And I really think you cannot understand what has been happening in American politics over the past 10 or 15 years without getting a better, clearer sense of the pressure China's rise is exerting on both the reality of our country, but also the minds of policymakers and leaders.
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