Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
speaker
1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The secession movement you'd expect from New York City is that Manhattan, with all that Wall Street money, leaves the other four boroughs, not Staten Island.
Goldfarb was raising kind of a good point.
What was the long game here?
What was the tax base?
How were they going to close the dump if that was Staten Island's most valuable asset?
Also, what about the fact that New York City controlled their water supply?
So Goldfarb, I think, was right.
But the momentum was not at all on his side.
Because something else was going on here.
Something hiding in plain sight, having to do with a remote Polynesian island called Tuvalu.
We'll be right back.
Like, I work in media, and where a career used to mean you go work at a big newspaper or magazine, these days it's starting your own newsletter or podcast.
One person, maybe two, and a mic.
Or take international affairs.
The United Nations, NATO, the European Union, Brexit.
There's this mass loss of faith in the ability of people or nations to form groups that work for the benefit of everyone.
Put another way, we seem to be living in an era defined by the principle that every man is an island.
So I started thinking, maybe the best way to understand the world and the Staten Island problem bedeviling it is to speak to an authority on islands.
What even is island studies?
Godfrey Baldacchino, professor of island studies, which maybe should be called archipelago studies, and which took me down a deep but very necessary rabbit hole.
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