Introduction

I think my personal political evolution in some ways is rather similar to Patreys. I was when I was a teenager, when I was an undergraduate at Stanford, very much believed in the importance of the give and take of political debate. And as I am in my 20s when I was living in New York, you start to understand why people get very pessimistic about stuff. There's a version of where I thought you could almost measure someone's IQ by their degree of pessimism.