A brief intellectual history of the trump era interviewed by New York Times book review editor, paul. Watch book tv this weekend on cspan2. It is great to be back as we kick off our fall season and our inaugural speaker as you mentioned is ted freeman, professor of Business Administration atthe Darden School at uva. His latest book which is still relevant youre in the current discourse that is going on in our nation is called the word and. The most powerful word in our language. So lets find out why the power of and is responsible for this without tradeoffs. Thank you very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually. At fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism, as dave had mentioned, i got a phd in philosophy. And that was great. My father was always terrific and he said well, youll never have to worry about a job because just opened a bunch ofphilosophy factories outside the interstate. Youll be fine. I got very lucky with sort of a postdoc war.