Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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19 published records
01 / belief
“We’d get pizza sometimes, and I had been to Friendly’s. And that was my experience of restaurants.”
02 / belief
“If we think about the 18th-century American painting, it’s so portrait-intensive, as you’ve observed yourself.”
03 / uncertainty
“If I had an endless amount of time to think about it, I don’t know that I’d settle on Lawrence, but in my mind at the moment .”
04 / belief
“I think that’s a long-term trend. I don’t think that’s something new. If you think about .”
05 / belief
“I think when people think of that New England bias, they’re thinking of a William James character, or of a New Yorker version, like Lionel Trilling, kind of that, and that I don’t have.”
06 / belief
“I think that the flourishing that they anticipated rested on a misunderstanding of the basic premise of republican government as it was set up in the 18th century.”
07 / belief
“A book I’ve really loved reading, which is published in, I think, 1954 — so it misses the last half century and more — is called Out of Our Past, and it’s a history of the United States.”
08 / belief
“Even though you’re famous and teaching at Harvard, I think of you in some ways as an outsider historian, much as we have outsider artists in American culture.”
09 / belief
“I do think I come from a different place than a lot of academics. I would say a large number of my colleagues are faculty brats.”
10 / evaluation
“Myself, I suspect that the problem is that we have a representative system of government, but we no longer believe in representation.”
11 / evaluation
“That this is the leftover of a ’60s utopianism, a new Left utopianism. And that, to me, is just a very tragic story because the research that has been done that got to me — like that book, The Myth of a Digital Democracy — what people expected digitization and the rise of the Internet to do politically, those expectations have not been met.”
12 / evaluation
“[laughs] But, more practically, he’s come partly because his work is generally pirated in the United States, and he goes to Washington to argue for copyright law, an international copyright law that would protect his work because he’s earning just pennies from the huge, vast, unprecedented sales of his work in the United States.”
13 / evaluation
“I ask them how they understand what the political consequences are of the technological tools that we use day to day.”
14 / evaluation
“We are not enemies with one another. That whole piece of having been sorted out at the worst moment, historically, in the 20th century for tensions between different groups of people, I think serves a lot of people very poorly in how they can lead their lives.”
15 / evaluation
“The Boston Globe was “that communist rag,” and Harvard was an embarrassment, which all made sense to me at the time. And I think that’s an important background to have, having the experience of going back and trying to write this history textbook.”
16 / evaluation
“Academic life in a college is like maybe a mom-and-pop grocery store on the corner, and academic life at a business school is, I don’t know, it’s like being the CEO of Whole Foods or something.”
17 / evaluation
“Because it’s not that women don’t win when they run — they have a hard time raising money — but it has to do with a kind of reticence of the cost, often not only to one’s self but to one’s family, that women assess differently.”
18 / evaluation
“I think that constitutional interpretation is not as neat as that, like “These people were right, these people were wrong.”
19 / evaluation
“Those Comstock laws, the federal law and all the little state laws that follow, are really being contested in the 1920s as freedom of speech issues. So I guess I would put Pickford in that context and in that conversation because what I think the legacy interestingly is for, that our notion of the right to privacy historically has its roots in men’s interest in keeping women visible from public view, means that we have a really screwy understanding, constitutionally, of the right to privacy, and that reproductive rights, for instance, are grounded in a right that doesn’t, to me, make a lot of sense.”