Russell Shorto
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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So they made this diversity work for them.
I think so.
Yeah.
It's like the acorn in the oak tree.
You know, if you look at New Amsterdam, what it looked like, you know, it's this tiny little kind of wild west town with a couple of windmills and these rickety buildings and things.
It bears no resemblance to New York City, but the genetic material was there.
And that's what attracted Nichols.
And that's why, as you said, he doesn't get credit.
In histories of New York, he'll get a sentence or two.
He's the guy that took New Amsterdam from the Dutch and named it New York.
But he also became the first governor.
He appreciated, he saw what was vital there, and he worked really hard
to nurture it, to encourage it.
And that then sets in motion.
You know, you've got over the next decades and the next century, you've got other immigrant groups continuing to come to New York because that had worked at the beginning.
Yeah.
If you're doing history, if you're dealing with history and you're not
struggling with paradoxes, then you're not doing it right.
Because human nature, human societies, if it's all this was a land of heroes, then there's something wrong with the picture.
So the Dutch pioneered tolerance, toleration,
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