Adam Tooze

That's the content of the kind of democracy that we need to build is a democracy that faces this harsh, brutal, brutally expressed. I think the sexual metaphor is wrong. There is a predatory rapist kind of mentality to this that resists that at every level, both cultural and political.

That's the content of the kind of democracy that we need to build is a democracy that faces this harsh, brutal, brutally expressed. I think the sexual metaphor is wrong. There is a predatory rapist kind of mentality to this that resists that at every level, both cultural and political.

And this is where I think, you know, the agenda of feminism is crucial because it speaks to this experience of power as being fucked.

And this is where I think, you know, the agenda of feminism is crucial because it speaks to this experience of power as being fucked.

Consent. Who is it that plays along? And that is where this sort of countervailing power has to be. And sitting, being employed by a big institution in a formidable city like New York, and you imagine some person like Trump coming along wanting to fuck this town, you try. You might want to, and people have done it, but it's hard.

Consent. Who is it that plays along? And that is where this sort of countervailing power has to be. And sitting, being employed by a big institution in a formidable city like New York, and you imagine some person like Trump coming along wanting to fuck this town, you try. You might want to, and people have done it, but it's hard.

And it's not hard because it's a place full of flaming radicals that are trying to paint us that way. No, it's just a place full of people pursuing their own projects in relatively decent ways, quite bought into the legacies of New Deal institutions, great society institutions which work here, knowing that we need diversity because this is a very diverse place and we can't function without it.

And it's not hard because it's a place full of flaming radicals that are trying to paint us that way. No, it's just a place full of people pursuing their own projects in relatively decent ways, quite bought into the legacies of New Deal institutions, great society institutions which work here, knowing that we need diversity because this is a very diverse place and we can't function without it.

This is not Mar-a-Lago or Palm Beach. We can't pretend the world is different from the way it is and so we need politics appropriate to that. And that's where I have a, that's where I really don't see this spiraling off into disaster. I think of a community like New York City and think it'll take, you know, as Adam Smith would say, there's a lot of ruin in this.

This is not Mar-a-Lago or Palm Beach. We can't pretend the world is different from the way it is and so we need politics appropriate to that. And that's where I have a, that's where I really don't see this spiraling off into disaster. I think of a community like New York City and think it'll take, you know, as Adam Smith would say, there's a lot of ruin in this.

Like, you know, it'll take a lot to really bring this down.

Like, you know, it'll take a lot to really bring this down.

Great pleasure.

Great pleasure.