Adam Gopnik, " A Thousand Small Sanities" (with Andrew Sullivan)

Adam Gopnik discusses his book, "A Thousand Small Sanities", with Andrew Sullivan at Politics and Prose on 5/22/19.

A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1986, Gopnik has become one of today’s leading cultural critics. His commentary, essays, and bestselling books--Paris to the Moon, Angels and Ages, Through the Childrens’ Gate, and others—have won numerous awards. In his latest work Gopnik draws on thinkers such as Mill and Montaigne, as well as the leaders of the civil rights movement, for a deeply considered and well-reasoned defense of liberalism. Defining liberalism as the search for radical change by humane measures, he argues that it’s much more than political centrism or a platform for free markets. Approaching it through the lives of people who have experienced it as a great moral adventure, Gopnik takes liberalism beyond political theory and shows why it’s our best protection from authoritarianism.

Gopnik is in conversation with Andrew Sullivan, a conservative political commentator, former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books.

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker; he has written for the magazine since 1986. Gopnik has three National Magazine awards, for essays and for criticism, and also a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March of 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. The author of numerous bestselling books, including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City.

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