“Comic Cowardice or False Power” (with Lucy Prebble)
HBO's Succession Podcast
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The Dangers of Visionary Intelligence
Your play Enron was about the real life corporate scandal, that energy company. One thing you said in it was, I feel uncomfortable at the fact that intelligence isn't always related to goodness at all. Can you talk a little bit about things? And I agree with it. This was having an argument on Twitter about Peter Thiel and someone said, I can't believe you like him. I said, I don't like him. He's very smart. Yeah. I disagree with him almost on everything. That's really interesting. The way that I chose to write Jeffrey Skilling, the CEO, was how he was described by a lot of people who knew him,. which was always the
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