I love that it takes 40 mins to start talking about Fareed's book:) I could listen to these guys exchange stories and thoughts all day. It's incredible how much can be learned about global hot button issues by listening to 2 guys talking about their experiences growing up and interacting with different cultures--while contextualizing that experience expertly. Both men are voracious consumers of other people's stories with a purpose (seemingly) to find hope, connection and insight that we can all apply in our lives. Their analysis of the outside world carries more weight with me because they appear to have applied that analysis inward first. Big fan.
What a great interview! I love Fareed! He is so knowledgeable of our world. We need more people like him spreading the truth and teaching us about the history of the world.
@@allinballsout1 Research what the divorce rate is for those "arranged" marriages compared to the divorce rate in the U.S. or Europe. Both parties consent to the marriages, it's not like women are forced into anything they do not want.
@@DottieStanleyon the surface the arranged marriages are not forced , but trust me I am an Indian , if you live here and understand the culture , arranged marriage is just a very cute name for socially sanctioned r*pe
I’ve been an admirer of Fareed Zakaria for several years and have read a couple of his previous books. I’m reading this one now and I think it’s possibly his best yet.
Delightful interview! Both Gladwell and Zaharia superb in their element! Being an older Mumbaikar who immigrated to the US , Fareed s experiences and understanding of India resonate and give me perspective! Thank you!
Fareed doesn't mention why this Hindu Nationalism came to be. What happened to Hindus in Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangladesh. Or what is happening to them in West Bangal and Kerela. He will talk endlessly about the danger of Hindus but not not muslims😊
@gutsglory7493 as an Indian Christian, I couldn't agree more. The muslims take tolerance for granted and they try to establish the Sharia law. They kidnap hindu and Christian women, convert them and sometimes even do violence against men of other religion.
@@georgekottaram Muslim population in Kerala is already 20%+. The day it starts reaching 30%, both Hindus and Christians will have to flee. Same happened in Kashmir, parts of UP, Bengal and Bangladesh. Kerala won't be spared by the barbarians
My first trip overseas was to Italy in 1978. In Rome’s airport there were soldiers with guns & signs to vote communist. Very scary for the first time out of America. Since then I have the wonderful experience of traveling to many countries to learn their culture. Fortunate life.
Malcolm Gladwell warmly and tangentially interviews Fareed Źakaria. He explores Zakaria's Indian upbringing in a privileged, educated Islamic family. His father was a politician; his mother was an influential reporter He explores Zakaria's fascination with the USA and his student life at Yale He invites Zakaria to talk about some main themes of his book, such as - the French Revolution - the Dutch dominance - how the current modern, secular, liberal societies of the West and the World evolved They have a great time with many jokes and playful avenues 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Fareed taught me that my Alma mater was established by William of Orange, as I did not know he was the William of William and Mary. He teaches me many things, though I am embarrassed to have not known the William of Orange connection and thus mention it here.
Loved this interview! It would be wonderful to have Farid in Westchester! We need to learn his perspective on a better world to live in and share it with dignity, respect and peace!
nostalgia and the good old days only reflects our positive childhood experiences . .that's what we really want back, no worries responsibilities ,and hope for the future. of course this is not the case for everyone, a lot of people never had a good childhood and wouldn't want top relive that life for all the money in the world.
Brilliant conversation; being an Indian immigrant from Bombay; I completely understand his narrative coz for me secular India of Nehru & Gandhi defines India! My story is the same of Fareed Zakaria coz like him I too grew up in Bombay & therefore he to me is smart & brilliant to articulate and express his views through this book and I can and have a tolerance to any criticism
Then you know nothing of India. That was so-called secular India was neither truly secular nor true India. That is why it is getting exposed and is dying as its logical conclusion. Please try understand and see the reality. Not from the lens of these buffoons sitting in US.
Yeah the secular India of Nehru and Gandhi were so good right. They led to Kerela and West Bengal where not a single Hindu will be found in a few years. Kashmir already happened
This was one sided secularism. If you demand secularism from both sides (i.e, from Muslims), they will shout 'sar tan se juda' (their h3ads be cut 0ff)
Wow. I thought the book was not as strong as it could have been because I hold Fareed in such high esteeem but listening to this, with some more background, I perhaps judged too quickly. Anyway loved this interview Bravo!
The one exception in America is the African American experience. There is a debt to the Dutch who set up the English as an economic colonial power....Well let us not forget another debt, That would have to do with another exception: The debt owed to the Indigenous peoples whose land was taken to enable American prosperity and ability to thrive. There are scholars who see American prosperity as based on slavery and on cultural and literal genocide of the Americans. Empire building does come at a cost. We have two engaging enlightened popularizing writers who are not in tune with a post colonial scholarly perspective. As a Canadian I would think Gladwell would not gloss over or forget the original peoples whose land was taken over.(stolen).
That was also my thought as well, and I came here to read the comments to see if there was anybody else that agreed. The indigenous people were totally glossed over.
How about the debt to the EU migrants that all died building the cities, bridges, canals & everything else or thrown away into the ghettos? And the centuries they lived like slaves under kings. So sick of the whining
As a Dutch citizen, this story of the Dutch also fascinates me. Though the horrors done by VOC must not be forgotten and William of Orange was no saint. But then again which historic figure is. Need to buy that Fareed book. Love him!!
Britain's always had a disproportionately massive creative and cultural yield or output, in both the arts and the sciences. Excellent interview. Well done!
Would of been great if he elaborated on how the Dutch East India company attained their wealth propelling the Dutch into the richest country in the world.
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the 21st century, the US succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself. ~Fareed Zakaria
I was just starting a book called Year 501 by Noam Chomsky that discusses the Dutch East India Company and all the stuff that came after it in terms of horrifying exploitation of colonies. It's just a matter of whether you focus on the losers or the winners...I like Fareed Zakaria, it was just different.
Love this interview! One of the best, most informative AND entertaining of these I’ve ever seen. Makes me want to get Fareed’s book… which is the whole point, eh? 😊
True Hinduism is prevailing. No matter whatever Zakaria and company keeps ranting about. Irony is that his own father was an Isl...mist who pressurised the then Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi to ban Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses in 1980s, without even reading it. This is Zakaria's family's secularism and liberalism for you.
True Hinduism was trying to prevail in Kashmir, Sindh, Bangladesh, and many parts of Kerela, WB and UP. Now 'fake radical' Hindus are trying to save themselves
Fareeds dad should have been a practicing Hindu living in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir or WB or Kerela and he would appreciate whatever Hindu nationalism is
Great talk. I see Fareeds shows regularly. In the Indian context it's worth noting 2 things 1. The Congress party is a dynastic socialist party. The only time they were liberal economically were when the dynasty was not in charge (90s) 2. Secularism in India is not French style. It is not secular at all. It allows different minority religions to have personal laws that silo them and keep them trapped in medieval laws. Unfortunately most people in the west have nothing to say about this.
Dutch has high agricultural exports because it has ports through which most of the Europes exports go from and the volume is included in netherlands registry
The agricultural improvements that Romans spread around Europe were significant. Renaissance started in Italy. Vivaldi. One can not have Europe without Italy. And I am Spanish
Outstanding line & tenor of questioning Mr Gladwell (fan of your books in everyway)… You made Mr. Fareed flip-flop on his responses about India, which made the interview very spicy! He belongs to the class of “Brown Sahibs” who are most fond of deriding India’s social fabric. Thanks to your questioning, we at least, heard him, though tell a little reluctantly, India’s story of an ongoing economic miracle.
I've watched and listened to Fareed for many years - and especially enjoy - and benefit from his political analyses - nationwide and worldwide. But on this occasion, he spoke to me as an immigrant - in my case, as one from England; Fareed's observations on British culture and attitudes, especially towards others, that I have never expressed, but have felt, in myself. I'm now 94 years-old and came to the US right after World War II as a 25-year old - after my obligatory service in the military. Fareed's comments that we first-generation immigrants live in two worlds - or at least, have our feet in two worlds is so absolutely true - and it isn't by design - it's almost accidental. I laugh when I hear Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" March (to which we Brits added the Jingoist poem as libretto - "Land of Hope and Glory"!) being banged out by a piano, or school band, at every High School graduation ceremony. If only the Americans knew what they were playing and "saying"! And I have a huge chart framed and hanging in my home showing the sequence - and the armorial bearings, of the entire historical Royal Family line - showing where William of Orange is placed - (as opposed to William the Conqueror's place) - the chart is current through Queen Elizabeth II (Charles III is a non-entity to me!) The chart is there for me to remind myself of that sequence of Reigns when I may need to know it (I can easily remember the 5 Reigns during which I've lived.) My table manners and other acts of courtesy and habit are all from Britain. I still polish my shoes (not an American habit, I notice!). I still use a knife and fork to eat peas! My children are all American born - and we live in different worlds with entirely different cultural values. Fareed explains that to me instinctively and insightfully. I must buy the book, not only because I love to read history, but because I've enjoyed the life discussion I've just heard. Thank you, Fareed.
@Fareed: Among the hymns you had to sing, did you encounter "Once to Every Man and Nation" (from the old Presbyterian hymnal)? I've long thought of it as the defining decision for our times. (Based on the poem "The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell, set to a traditional Welsh melody. Wikipedia tells us the lyrics were written in protest to the Mexican-American war. It can, of course, be listened to in several versions on TH-cam.)
I love how Fareed would remove Russia from history, but it was Leo Tolstoy and his writings that inspired Gandhi to embrace non violence. They corresponded heavily while Gandhi was imprisoned in South Africa and Tolstoy neared the end of his life. Tolstoy wrote "Letter to a Hindu" which Gandhi translated into Gujarati himself and is, what I believe to be, one of the most profound examples of moral leadership and solidarity against global imperialism across cultures and nations. India might not even exist in it's modern form if it wasn't for Russia
@57:37 "This is so fascinating to see the book as reflected through Malcom Gladwell's mind, you see how if he wrote it it would sell 10 times as many copies." Malcolm, "That's true."
53:56 - no word on the divisive relationship between flanders and wallonia ! And quoting BBC - “For more than 250 years the Netherlands had extensive colonies in the regions that are now known as Indonesia, South Africa, Curaçao, New Guinea - and beyond - where enslaved men, women and children were treated as barely human.”
Love Zakaria, but I was a little taken aback when he said, "This whole idea of ancient Greece as this paradise was a Victorian invention." What about the Renaissance of the 13th century?
With different dynamics. The renaissance was aspirational in bringing back art and humanities of Greece. Post Enlightenment was historical revisionism, creating connections where there was none.
This curiously structured interview, that confines the ostensible object of the interview - the promotion of FZ’s new book - to ten minutes at the end, … compelled me to buy that book. It’s a brilliant 3 rail bank shot into the far corner.
It appears that Fareed may not be aware that over 95% of Muslims in undivided India had voted in favor of partition. It is unclear if his father was part of the remaining 5%. There was widespread support for the Khilafat movement, which aimed to support the Ottomans in their fight against the British. Hence, the majority of Indian Muslims were not secular. It is difficult to believe that his father considered Gandhi and Nehru as secular back then, given that information did not flow as easily as it does today. The prevailing argument is that most people believed that Pakistan would be carved out from different parts of the continuous landmass, and when that did not happen, they chose to remain in their current comfortable situations. Those who want to dispute please do your research before commenting.
You are completely wrong. Did people had the universal suffrage at that time. Did each person had a right to vote. Even after the partition people had the option to go to the other country and most Muslims chose to stay in India. So your arguement falls flat.
@@fayezqureshi8774Many muslims decided to stay in India because they knew they could live peacefully. Negligible Hindus, Sikhs, Christians remain in Islamic Pakistan and Bangladesh. Truly shows the victim card mentality of muslims
@@fayezqureshi8774 Muslims in India, both before and after the partition, have not been secular, as evidenced by their actions and writings. There were significant rioting incidents before independence that support this assertion, including: - Direct Action Day - Moplah - Noakhali - Cawnpore - among others. Some predate many decades before partition. The present condition of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh further reinforces this point. Research topics such as "who voted for Pakistan" and "Hindu-Muslim riots before the independence of India" for more information
The protestants of the early modern age lived for the future, whereas the catholics lived for the present. (Historically, it may have been the other way round - but who cares.) That's why the communities evolved differently.
Historians are not policemen.. Historians shed light for discussion and not to shut it down..discussions are guided by evidence and not contemporary attitudes
See the debate with Malcolm gladwell vs Douglas Murray. Malcom gets cornered and starts pulling a race card. It's quite pathetic , his ego is too large to suffer at the hands of anyone on the political right. See the comments on that video. Brutal.
The Pilgrims went from England to Leiden (Netherlands) before sailing from Plymouth, UK to Plymouth, MA And the Mayflower was a Fluyt ship. Yes, the Dutch.
It's weird to think that Malcolm Gladwell ran into so many Indian people in Waterloo, Ontario at that time. I attended college nearby in Kitchener and there were very few Indians in the area. Much different than growing up in Hamilton with my Indian friends.
The "lose five countries game" is weird at so many levels. Wonderful to see two men who are so engaged with their solipsism. Not surprised at Zakaria's amusement in playing, but surprised that Gladwell would even concoct such a ridiculous game.
Fareed Zakaria is always brilliant however he is wrong about the Greeks being the first to embrace nostalgia. It was the Jews and the authors (scribes) of the Book of Genesis who invented the idea of Eden, some 1400 BCE. That is to my knowledge the West's first piece of Ur-nostalgia.
43:35 Brexit was not about reactionary and negative thinking. Brevity was about the modern world's first democracy getting back its sovereignty from a European bunch of bureaucrats who are not elected (beyond the European Parliament) and who have never, as yet, presented their accounts for open scrutiny.
Wow! What an extremely racist, strange, and simplified world view to end on! What countries would you get rid of first? And Io and behold, it’s the farthest ones from the Anglo sphere! Amazing way to give out your deep, probably unconscious thoughts!
I don't understand how Israel is included in the list of nations that have a significant intellectual and cultural center of energy outside of their borders? 37:20
"Illiberal" my a#*. His family enjoys a good life here becoz we have the secularism intact. this coming from some1 accused of plagiarism should be trashed.
Just to name a tip of iceberg of gifts to the world by: US gave Digital Revolution, Silicon Valley, NASA, world policing, world reserve currency Dutch gave Europe's decentralised political system and etc England gave Newtonian physics, Maxwell electromagnetism, Industrial Revolution Germany gave modern/quantum physics from Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrodinger (Austrian), Robert Goddard (then founder of NASA rocket) Switzerland gave secret banking for the world's filthy rich Russian gave world class chess players, Sputnik moment, space tech, Tetris, world's largest number of nuclear warheads able to "destroy the world many times over":Putin
I love that it takes 40 mins to start talking about Fareed's book:) I could listen to these guys exchange stories and thoughts all day. It's incredible how much can be learned about global hot button issues by listening to 2 guys talking about their experiences growing up and interacting with different cultures--while contextualizing that experience expertly. Both men are voracious consumers of other people's stories with a purpose (seemingly) to find hope, connection and insight that we can all apply in our lives. Their analysis of the outside world carries more weight with me because they appear to have applied that analysis inward first. Big fan.
Well said.
What a great interview! I love Fareed! He is so knowledgeable of our world. We need more people like him spreading the truth and teaching us about the history of the world.
😂 So was his wife also brought from India and delivered to him? The one with the PhD?
Except for the plagiarism.
@@allinballsout1 Research what the divorce rate is for those "arranged" marriages compared to the divorce rate in the U.S. or Europe. Both parties consent to the marriages, it's not like women are forced into anything they do not want.
@@DottieStanleyon the surface the arranged marriages are not forced , but trust me I am an Indian , if you live here and understand the culture , arranged marriage is just a very cute name for socially sanctioned r*pe
Knowledgeable..no doubt he is,but what about the birth place of Buddha he mentioned here.
I could listen to these two all day. So smart and interesting!
Absolutely fantastic interview. I tip my hat to you, Mr. Gladwell.
Thank you. So lovely to listen to the two of you. I don´t know if anyone on earth equals Malcolm´s ability to listen and ask questions .
I’ve been an admirer of Fareed Zakaria for several years and have read a couple of his previous books. I’m reading this one now and I think it’s possibly his best yet.
Delightful interview! Both Gladwell and Zaharia superb in their element! Being an older Mumbaikar who immigrated to the US , Fareed s experiences and understanding of India resonate and give me perspective! Thank you!
Amazing interview. I tip my hat to Malcom for his interviewing/conversational chops and to Fareed for writing this book.
What a treat to see two greatly admired people in such a nice conversation.
My two fav authors. One of the best interviews I’ve seen. Enjoyed it throughly.
Fareed Zakaria with Malcolm Gladwell excellent!!!!!!! It was great that Malcolm Gladwell did do another basic interview.😎
This conversation is fascinating on so many levels. I love the question of if history should be written by the immigrants. A very good question!
I enjoyed every second of this interview, thank you. A combination of knowledge and wisdom delivered with charm and humility. Inspiring!
Great dialogue! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Impressive interview, great conversation, model for how interviews should be. Thank you enlightening us.
Mr. Gladwell's tangents always makes things interesting - excellent interviewer. He needs a Charlie Rose-like show.
Fareed is one of our great intellectual leaders at this time. Loved the interview
Fareed doesn't mention why this Hindu Nationalism came to be. What happened to Hindus in Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangladesh. Or what is happening to them in West Bangal and Kerela.
He will talk endlessly about the danger of Hindus but not not muslims😊
@gutsglory7493 as an Indian Christian, I couldn't agree more. The muslims take tolerance for granted and they try to establish the Sharia law. They kidnap hindu and Christian women, convert them and sometimes even do violence against men of other religion.
@@gutsglory7493what is happening to them in Kerala?
@@georgekottaram Muslim population in Kerala is already 20%+. The day it starts reaching 30%, both Hindus and Christians will have to flee.
Same happened in Kashmir, parts of UP, Bengal and Bangladesh. Kerala won't be spared by the barbarians
@@gutsglory7493oh please spare us the crocodile tears. How about what Hindus have done to dalits for thousands of years?
Thank you for bringing the 2 together. ❤
My first trip overseas was to Italy in 1978. In Rome’s airport there were soldiers with guns & signs to vote communist. Very scary for the first time out of America. Since then I have the wonderful experience of traveling to many countries to learn their culture. Fortunate life.
Malcolm Gladwell warmly and tangentially interviews Fareed Źakaria.
He explores Zakaria's Indian upbringing in a privileged, educated Islamic family. His father was a politician; his mother was an influential reporter
He explores Zakaria's fascination with the USA and his student life at Yale
He invites Zakaria to talk about some main themes of his book, such as
- the French Revolution
- the Dutch dominance
- how the current modern, secular, liberal societies of the West and the World evolved
They have a great time with many jokes and playful avenues 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Fareed taught me that my Alma mater was established by William of Orange, as I did not know he was the William of William and Mary. He teaches me many things, though I am embarrassed to have not known the William of Orange connection and thus mention it here.
Look up "Glorious Revolution"...
Loved this interview! It would be wonderful to have Farid in Westchester! We need to learn his perspective on a better world to live in and share it with dignity, respect and peace!
A breath of fresh air. Thank you
Great interview! Thank you!
Haven't learned so much from one interview in quite some time...Really great questions and insight by Malcolm and Fareed...brilliant!
nostalgia and the good old days only reflects our positive childhood experiences . .that's what we really want back, no worries responsibilities ,and hope for the future. of course this is not the case for everyone, a lot of people never had a good childhood and wouldn't want top relive that life for all the money in the world.
Superb questions by Mr Gladwell.
Brilliant conversation; being an Indian immigrant from Bombay; I completely understand his narrative coz for me secular India of Nehru & Gandhi defines India! My story is the same of Fareed Zakaria coz like him I too grew up in Bombay & therefore he to me is smart & brilliant to articulate and express his views through this book and I can and have a tolerance to any criticism
Then you know nothing of India. That was so-called secular India was neither truly secular nor true India. That is why it is getting exposed and is dying as its logical conclusion. Please try understand and see the reality. Not from the lens of these buffoons sitting in US.
Yeah the secular India of Nehru and Gandhi were so good right.
They led to Kerela and West Bengal where not a single Hindu will be found in a few years. Kashmir already happened
This was one sided secularism. If you demand secularism from both sides (i.e, from Muslims), they will shout 'sar tan se juda' (their h3ads be cut 0ff)
@@gutsglory7493 I feel your pain brother
@@gutsglory7493 they were why do you have any doubts
Love the conversation.
Wow. I thought the book was not as strong as it could have been because I hold Fareed in such high esteeem but listening to this, with some more background, I perhaps judged too quickly. Anyway loved this interview Bravo!
Great! Thank you both.
The one exception in America is the African American experience. There is a debt to the Dutch who set up the English as an economic colonial power....Well let us not forget another debt, That would have to do with another exception: The debt owed to the Indigenous peoples whose land was taken to enable American prosperity and ability to thrive. There are scholars who see American prosperity as based on slavery and on cultural and literal genocide of the Americans. Empire building does come at a cost. We have two engaging enlightened popularizing writers who are not in tune with a post colonial scholarly perspective. As a Canadian I would think Gladwell would not gloss over or forget the original peoples whose land was taken over.(stolen).
That was also my thought as well, and I came here to read the comments to see if there was anybody else that agreed. The indigenous people were totally glossed over.
How about the debt to the EU migrants that all died building the cities, bridges, canals & everything else or thrown away into the ghettos?
And the centuries they lived like slaves under kings.
So sick of the whining
Excellent conversation!! Learned so much 👍
Perfect, "a family cult". That says it all. Great interview to both of you.
Breath taking interview ❤
As a Dutch citizen, this story of the Dutch also fascinates me. Though the horrors done by VOC must not be forgotten and William of Orange was no saint. But then again which historic figure is. Need to buy that Fareed book. Love him!!
Gladwell is excellent . How he started the interview is unique in itself.
Britain's always had a disproportionately massive creative and cultural yield or output, in both the arts and the sciences. Excellent interview. Well done!
Would of been great if he elaborated on how the Dutch East India company attained their wealth propelling the Dutch into the richest country in the world.
Slavery
I'm sitting here, jaw dropped. The Dutch?
Now I GOT to buy the book!
This was a great interview!
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the 21st century, the US succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself. ~Fareed Zakaria
I was just starting a book called Year 501 by Noam Chomsky that discusses the Dutch East India Company and all the stuff that came after it in terms of horrifying exploitation of colonies. It's just a matter of whether you focus on the losers or the winners...I like Fareed Zakaria, it was just different.
And different is putting it mildly. Glossing over the effects of cultural and (literal) genocides is common but cannot be ignored....
What a fascinating interview!
Love this interview! One of the best, most informative AND entertaining of these I’ve ever seen. Makes me want to get Fareed’s book… which is the whole point, eh? 😊
This conversation was a refreshing oasis.
He talks about being glad that his dad didn’t live to see today’s India .
He Hopes true Hinduism prevail , many millions here too do🙏
True Hinduism is prevailing. No matter whatever Zakaria and company keeps ranting about. Irony is that his own father was an Isl...mist who pressurised the then Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi to ban Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses in 1980s, without even reading it. This is Zakaria's family's secularism and liberalism for you.
True Hinduism was trying to prevail in Kashmir, Sindh, Bangladesh, and many parts of Kerela, WB and UP.
Now 'fake radical' Hindus are trying to save themselves
Fareeds dad should have been a practicing Hindu living in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir or WB or Kerela and he would appreciate whatever Hindu nationalism is
@gutsglory7493 uhh nop, not in kerala
Great talk. I see Fareeds shows regularly. In the Indian context it's worth noting 2 things 1. The Congress party is a dynastic socialist party. The only time they were liberal economically were when the dynasty was not in charge (90s) 2. Secularism in India is not French style. It is not secular at all. It allows different minority religions to have personal laws that silo them and keep them trapped in medieval laws. Unfortunately most people in the west have nothing to say about this.
Such good questions from Malcom!
this was brilliant !
A unique interview, a genius person is interviewed by a genius one.
Precious,Fareed
(52:38 -53:39) Interesting similarity to the city-states of Ancient Greece - which was also subdivided into small pockets by rough terrain.
Simply the best . Honest broker
Dutch has high agricultural exports because it has ports through which most of the Europes exports go from and the volume is included in netherlands registry
Zijn groot in exports omdat ze groot in imports zijn.
Excellent
The agricultural improvements that Romans spread around Europe were significant. Renaissance started in Italy. Vivaldi. One can not have Europe without Italy. And I am Spanish
We need to end the filibuster, so we can amend the constitution. Then it’s Fareed 2028 baby. Center left, brilliant, man of humility and compassion.
No, the B.S. would drive him mad. He's a modern day prophet. We need his type.
No need. AOC will lead the way quite OK.
What Zakaria said about Hinduism brought tears to my eyes as it brought forth so much acceptance and beauty
Outstanding line & tenor of questioning Mr Gladwell (fan of your books in everyway)… You made Mr. Fareed flip-flop on his responses about India, which made the interview very spicy! He belongs to the class of “Brown Sahibs” who are most fond of deriding India’s social fabric. Thanks to your questioning, we at least, heard him, though tell a little reluctantly, India’s story of an ongoing economic miracle.
Great interview
exciting - I just discovered this
Love to learn from Fareed
I've watched and listened to Fareed for many years - and especially enjoy - and benefit from his political analyses - nationwide and worldwide. But on this occasion, he spoke to me as an immigrant - in my case, as one from England; Fareed's observations on British culture and attitudes, especially towards others, that I have never expressed, but have felt, in myself. I'm now 94 years-old and came to the US right after World War II as a 25-year old - after my obligatory service in the military. Fareed's comments that we first-generation immigrants live in two worlds - or at least, have our feet in two worlds is so absolutely true - and it isn't by design - it's almost accidental. I laugh when I hear Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" March (to which we Brits added the Jingoist poem as libretto - "Land of Hope and Glory"!) being banged out by a piano, or school band, at every High School graduation ceremony. If only the Americans knew what they were playing and "saying"! And I have a huge chart framed and hanging in my home showing the sequence - and the armorial bearings, of the entire historical Royal Family line - showing where William of Orange is placed - (as opposed to William the Conqueror's place) - the chart is current through Queen Elizabeth II (Charles III is a non-entity to me!) The chart is there for me to remind myself of that sequence of Reigns when I may need to know it (I can easily remember the 5 Reigns during which I've lived.)
My table manners and other acts of courtesy and habit are all from Britain. I still polish my shoes (not an American habit, I notice!). I still use a knife and fork to eat peas! My children are all American born - and we live in different worlds with entirely different cultural values. Fareed explains that to me instinctively and insightfully.
I must buy the book, not only because I love to read history, but because I've enjoyed the life discussion I've just heard. Thank you, Fareed.
@Fareed: Among the hymns you had to sing, did you encounter "Once to Every Man and Nation" (from the old Presbyterian hymnal)? I've long thought of it as the defining decision for our times.
(Based on the poem "The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell, set to a traditional Welsh melody. Wikipedia tells us the lyrics were written in protest to the Mexican-American war. It can, of course, be listened to in several versions on TH-cam.)
I love how Fareed would remove Russia from history, but it was Leo Tolstoy and his writings that inspired Gandhi to embrace non violence. They corresponded heavily while Gandhi was imprisoned in South Africa and Tolstoy neared the end of his life. Tolstoy wrote "Letter to a Hindu" which Gandhi translated into Gujarati himself and is, what I believe to be, one of the most profound examples of moral leadership and solidarity against global imperialism across cultures and nations. India might not even exist in it's modern form if it wasn't for Russia
What do you mean he would remove Russia from history
Never mind! I heard it!
@57:37 "This is so fascinating to see the book as reflected through Malcom Gladwell's mind, you see how if he wrote it it would sell 10 times as many copies."
Malcolm, "That's true."
53:56 - no word on the divisive relationship between flanders and wallonia ! And quoting BBC - “For more than 250 years the Netherlands had extensive colonies in the regions that are now known as Indonesia, South Africa, Curaçao, New Guinea - and beyond - where enslaved men, women and children were treated as barely human.”
Love Zakaria, but I was a little taken aback when he said, "This whole idea of ancient Greece as this paradise was a Victorian invention." What about the Renaissance of the 13th century?
With different dynamics. The renaissance was aspirational in bringing back art and humanities of Greece. Post Enlightenment was historical revisionism, creating connections where there was none.
Amazing
Does anyone know the jacket Malcolm is wearing? Thank you!
This curiously structured interview, that confines the ostensible object of the interview - the promotion of FZ’s new book - to ten minutes at the end, … compelled me to buy that book. It’s a brilliant 3 rail bank shot into the far corner.
It appears that Fareed may not be aware that over 95% of Muslims in undivided India had voted in favor of partition. It is unclear if his father was part of the remaining 5%. There was widespread support for the Khilafat movement, which aimed to support the Ottomans in their fight against the British. Hence, the majority of Indian Muslims were not secular.
It is difficult to believe that his father considered Gandhi and Nehru as secular back then, given that information did not flow as easily as it does today. The prevailing argument is that most people believed that Pakistan would be carved out from different parts of the continuous landmass, and when that did not happen, they chose to remain in their current comfortable situations.
Those who want to dispute please do your research before commenting.
You are completely wrong. Did people had the universal suffrage at that time. Did each person had a right to vote. Even after the partition people had the option to go to the other country and most Muslims chose to stay in India. So your arguement falls flat.
@@fayezqureshi8774Many muslims decided to stay in India because they knew they could live peacefully.
Negligible Hindus, Sikhs, Christians remain in Islamic Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Truly shows the victim card mentality of muslims
@@fayezqureshi8774
Muslims in India, both before and after the partition, have not been secular, as evidenced by their actions and writings.
There were significant rioting incidents before independence that support this assertion, including:
- Direct Action Day
- Moplah
- Noakhali
- Cawnpore
- among others.
Some predate many decades before partition.
The present condition of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh further reinforces this point.
Research topics such as "who voted for Pakistan" and "Hindu-Muslim riots before the independence of India" for more information
I would like to hear him speak with Professor Timothy Snyder
I’m the first one here. Someone please validate me with a like/comment
My humble suggestion that being India born American, Fareed should write a history of india
He won't. Because he'll also have to write the causes of the rise of Hindu nationalism which are heavily rooted in the islamic t3rr0r mindset
No Thanks !
That would be heavily flawed
Wonderful interview
The protestants of the early modern age lived for the future, whereas the catholics lived for the present. (Historically, it may have been the other way round - but who cares.) That's why the communities evolved differently.
That was extremely interesting, but I don't recall hearing the name of Zakaria's book!
Historians are not policemen.. Historians shed light for discussion and not to shut it down..discussions are guided by evidence and not contemporary attitudes
Completely agree with the comments by Fareed at the 8:30 mark 🤣🤣 yeah its a combination of India and that time (as an Indian born in 1993).
Is there a podcast of this?
See the debate with Malcolm gladwell vs Douglas Murray. Malcom gets cornered and starts pulling a race card. It's quite pathetic , his ego is too large to suffer at the hands of anyone on the political right. See the comments on that video. Brutal.
The Pilgrims went from England to Leiden (Netherlands) before sailing from Plymouth, UK to Plymouth, MA And the Mayflower was a Fluyt ship. Yes, the Dutch.
It's weird to think that Malcolm Gladwell ran into so many Indian people in Waterloo, Ontario at that time. I attended college nearby in Kitchener and there were very few Indians in the area. Much different than growing up in Hamilton with my Indian friends.
Now I want to join Malcolm and Fareed for a nice Italian dinner. Wine's on me.
The "lose five countries game" is weird at so many levels. Wonderful to see two men who are so engaged with their solipsism. Not surprised at Zakaria's amusement in playing, but surprised that Gladwell would even concoct such a ridiculous game.
Totally agree.. kinda disappointing
William of Orange. Wow! And there's the Orange of Mara Lago, Drumph
WASP Nationalism ?
Fareed Zakaria is always brilliant however he is wrong about the Greeks being the first to embrace nostalgia. It was the Jews and the authors (scribes) of the Book of Genesis who invented the idea of Eden, some 1400 BCE. That is to my knowledge the West's first piece of Ur-nostalgia.
Good point.
“All in the Family “
It does not surprise me that these two are friends.
43:35 Brexit was not about reactionary and negative thinking. Brevity was about the modern world's first democracy getting back its sovereignty from a European bunch of bureaucrats who are not elected (beyond the European Parliament) and who have never, as yet, presented their accounts for open scrutiny.
Tiresome jumping on the so-called bunch of bureaucrats. Don’t people ever use their brains and get tired of reliance on clichés?
You try to fit in.integrate, that's what the world needs... Not birds of the same feather flock together and scheme for subjugating other communities.
Fareed, sorry for the typo! Sent too soon!
Wow! What an extremely racist, strange, and simplified world view to end on! What countries would you get rid of first? And Io and behold, it’s the farthest ones from the Anglo sphere! Amazing way to give out your deep, probably unconscious thoughts!
I thought no one would comment on that!
Word.
I don't understand how Israel is included in the list of nations that have a significant intellectual and cultural center of energy outside of their borders? 37:20
Still haven't forgiven Malcolm for his racist comments at the Munk debate, but I'll give him a second chance for Farhed
You eliminate the Roman Empire and the Renaissance?
"Illiberal" my a#*. His family enjoys a good life here becoz we have the secularism intact. this coming from some1 accused of plagiarism should be trashed.
Just to name a tip of iceberg of gifts to the world by:
US gave Digital Revolution, Silicon Valley, NASA, world policing, world reserve currency
Dutch gave Europe's decentralised political system and etc
England gave Newtonian physics, Maxwell electromagnetism, Industrial Revolution
Germany gave modern/quantum physics from Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrodinger (Austrian), Robert Goddard (then founder of NASA rocket)
Switzerland gave secret banking for the world's filthy rich
Russian gave world class chess players, Sputnik moment, space tech, Tetris, world's largest number of nuclear warheads able to "destroy the world many times over":Putin
Indigenous First Nations gave USA trillions of dollars worth of unspoiled land.
Ingenous First Nation non-Han Uyghur "gave" Han-dominated CCP trillions of dollars of minerals reserves
Ingenous First Nation non-Han Uyghur "gave" Han-dominated CCP trillions of dollars of minerals reserves
Ingenous First Nation non-Han Uyghur "gave" Han-dominated CCP trillions of dollars of minerals reserves
@@carolynrobe5957Ingenous First Nation non-Han Uyghur "gave" Han-dominated CCP trillions of dollars of minerals reserves