I focus mainly on the prism. You call this a book also about the intellectual history of the trump era, a title some might consider to be a timely oxymoron but what do you mean by an intellectual history . Theres a lot of ways to imagine. Theres been a common exercise during the trump years of trying to find that one book from 1973 that anticipated everything or this one essay that saw it coming and ive done that myself but that isnt the kind of book i wanted to write. I wanted to grapple with the insiders and academics and journalists and how they were thinking about this moment in real time so maybe a better way to explain it is to think of it as a snapshot of an intellectual moment future historians can look at to get the sense of how we thought about trump in a moment. Its interesting you talk about books that oversimplify things, this is how we got here, this is how its happened. There was an increased interest in sales and in particular, novels with brave new world and postapocal
Carried out an attack that sparked the fighting with addus ababa. Mr. It was time to that will conduct missile attacks to foil military movements in misawa and a Smaller Group undertake every other kind of measure to foil efforts to subjugate its a great people inside the great all other places. After, after 8 years of negotiations, 15 asia pacific nations assigned the worlds biggest free trade agreements. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was agreed securing a Virtual Summit hosted by feet. On to syrias foreign story is following the story from kuala lumpur. And what it hopes to achieve is it wants to progressively lower tariffs within the coming years. It also aims to set one just one set of rules that would make it easier for Member States to trade with each other and to invest in each other. Now this where this agreement fails though, if it doesnt go far enough, it doesnt mention Environmental Protection and labor standards. And thats where the criticism of this deal
Like im a political journalist use the book says a means to that kind of work. Obviously this is your first book did you know you always wanted to write a book as a critical or is that something you steer clear of . I do not have a sense i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book reading other peoples books plenty in the process of writing a book to be far too much sympathetic warning me for my day job that has been useful to see with that side of the process is like and all the work going to finish that finished product i get at the tail end. With that change your approach is a book critic . I think it has to i know how it will. I want to see when im back into the swing of reviewing books but in some ways just beyond sympathy for authors i hope you will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking of where the book covers or how many chapters. I hope will make me better at my main job. Now you know the answers but before you get too far away he ran on read 150 books. What do
So sadly instead of crushing the virus it appears that the trumpet mistaken will use its final moments in office and the desperate last step to destroy every possible protection for American Health and well being so many people have said to me a private some of you along the way what damage do you think that trump will do between losing the election and the swearing in the inauguration of joe biden maybe even phrase it quite that way but thats how i heard it and we knew that he would be up to mischief separate and apart from that trying to destroy the credibility of our elections which we criticize other nations for doing and now ways all enemies foreign and domestic make an assault on our elections well we have one domestic but apart from that on the policy side which is why we are here people asked that question. What will he try to do that is harmful and one of. This week they show their hand we had suspicions of it but can speak publicly about it because until they went public this
Guest i still think i very much see myself as a book critic. This book is just sort of an extension of that work, but these days i feel like im a political journalist also in many ways and just using books as a means to do that kind of work. Host also an author, obviously. This is your first book. Did you know you always wanted to write a book as a book critic or is that something you steered clear of . Guest i did not have a sense i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book. Reading other peoples books was plenty for me and i worried a bit that if i went through the process of writing a book i would end up far too sympathetic to authors and ruin me for my day job, but i think its been useful to see what that side of the process is like and all of the work that goes into creating that finished product usually just get at the tail end host do you think it will change your approach at all as a book critic . I think it almost has to. I dont know how it will, though. I went to see