Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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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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Most archipelago states have a strict hierarchy, beginning with the mainland that dominates the other islands.
New York City is an archipelago.
And it turns out that the weird thing happening in New York in the 90s is actually entirely in line with weird things that happen on other archipelagos all the time.
For instance, the trash island.
Really?
Just an entire island that's just trash?
But so what about when the waste island is inhabited, but by a political minority and a population minority?
There you are.
Australia was Britain's prison island.
Tasmania was Australia's prison island.
And then off of Tasmania, there were even smaller islands that were their prison island.
It's all islands all the way down.
Islands putting things they don't want on other islands, escaping to yet further islands.
One of the ways to stop that island cascade is theoretically a bridge, like what Staten Island got.
The bridge was finally supposed to tie the islands of New York together.
But this bridge became yet another problem for Staten Island.
Not least of all, because of its toll.
Island theorists have a name for this.
It's called the Tuvalu effect.
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