The Loss of Confidence at Harvard

Ravi Agrawal: I want to talk about institutions and spaces because you've been in so many elite universities. It seems that BU gave you a certain space that you wanted at that time and it also gave you intellectual stimulus through these wonderful colleagues. And if it wasn't for you at that time, I don't think I would have really done applied theory," he says. "It was your being there and really showing me that theory could be spoken in sentences"