The speaker reflects on their experience of the Trump years and the importance of understanding and making sense of the overwhelming amount of information in American politics. They discuss the role of a weekly column as a recording and navigational device, drawing parallels with the Watergate era and emphasizing the need to provide clarity amidst the overwhelming news cycle.
Susan Glasser, the former editor of Politico and Foreign Policy, writes the "Letter from Washington" column for the The New Yorker. Her most recent book, written with Peter Baker, is The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.
“There’s a great benefit to leaving Washington and then coming back, or frankly leaving anywhere and then coming back. I think you have much wider open eyes. Washington, like a lot of company towns, takes on a logic of its own, and things that can seem crazy to the rest of the country, to the rest of the world, somehow end up making more sense than they should when you’re just doing that all day long, every day.”
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