The Great Leap of Tolkien

John Daniel Davidson, senior editor at the Federalist. He was trying to push John on that connection between a fundamentally anti globalist, anti high tech text being co-opted by the wealthy and powerful. The great lesson of the ring is that you can't use it for good. What does power and the ring always do in Tolkien's world? It enslaves. And he would say that the powers that we have unleashed have enslaved us here in the beginning of the 21st century.