Russell Shorto

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

Yeah, I would love to walk around.

British Empire, Dutch Empire, economic empire.

It involves slavery and exploitation.

At the same time, it also involves a lot of forces that today we depend on, we still depend on.

So it's a paradoxical term.

Say the word Manhattan.

um the at the place where we got uh wood for making bows that was the original meaning right that was the native meaning amazing okay say the word america that that's a that's a loaded term isn't it you know what i think of when you say that is i go by you know go for a walk in in my town i live in maryland and um somebody has an american flag out and i think

Two houses might have American flags out side by side, and they may mean entirely different things from one another.

And that's the paradox of America right now.

I think of the new and the old.

Old Amsterdam was, right now, I'm going to do a plug for myself.

I have curated an exhibition at the New York Historical on the Upper West Side called Old Masters, New Amsterdam.

We brought 60 Dutch Old Master paintings, including by Rembrandt and his contemporaries.

And the idea was that through them, we can get a window into what New Amsterdam looked like.

So these old master paintings of ordinary people, of street scenes, of market scenes, inside taverns.

So go there between now and the end of August and you get a sense of New Amsterdam.

Thanks, Anthony.

It's been a pleasure.

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