Russell Shorto

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238 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · You Can't Understand America Without Understanding New York - Russell Shorto · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

So, okay, now let's dive in and try to figure out what the story is.

And then, lo and behold, it becomes this kind of, it wasn't,

You know, they started something and then they erased the page and started over again when the English took over.

The English, in fact, took something and said, all right, now we are going to slowly begin to modify it.

And then it slowly, after 1664, after it is renamed as New York, it slowly becomes part of this growing tradition.

British Empire and benefits from that.

New York City is this satellite to London as London is expanding and partakes of all of the darkness of that story, of the British Empire, of exploitation and colonialism.

And New York is enriched thereby.

I think they would find it, you know, unfathomable.

But I think, you know, what was most interesting in taking Manhattan to me is that they got their guns pointed at each other.

And this is a two-week period where they're sending messengers on boats between the ships and the fort.

as they try to work this out.

And it's so interesting that these two personalities, that's what it came down to.

We think of history as inevitable, but it's not.

It comes down to individual people making decisions.

You yourself have made some very consequential decisions in this historical period that we're living in right now.

And here are these two people, and they decided, you know what?

for the sake of this community, these people on the ground, and our future.

we're going to, we're not going to fight, we're going to create a kind of merger of Englishness and Dutchness.

And so to bring them forward, you know, a few centuries and have them, and basically say, this is what you did.

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