Fareed Zakaria On Colonialism And Liberalism

The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Fareed is the host of the CNN show “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” which has been on the air since 2008. He’s also a columnist for the Washington Post and the author of several bestsellers, including In Defense of a Liberal Education, The Post-American World, and his latest, Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World. He’s also been a friend since 1983.

For two clips of our convo — on the silver linings of British colonialism, and how the war in Ukraine could end — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: the remarkable immigrant story of Fareed’s family, colonial racism in India, Churchill, David Cameron, the rise of Rishi Sunak, falling in love with America, Burke, the rapid pace of migration and free trade, the threat from China, the Cold War, and Fareed’s mentor Sam Huntington and the “Clash of Civilizations.”

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hi there.
0:29.8	It's another discast.
0:31.7	I'm back with you in a beautiful, warm day in Washington, D.C.
0:37.5	It's All Saints Day today, November 1st, All Souls Day tomorrow, just after Halloween.
0:44.6	And I am delighted to have an old friend and wonderful writer called Farid Zakaria,
0:52.4	who you all are aware of. He's the host of the CNN show. Farid Zakaria, who you all are aware of.
0:54.4	He's the host of the CNN show.
0:56.8	Farid Zakaria GPS, which has been on the air since 2008.
1:01.1	It's kind of amazingly long duration for a show like that.
1:04.7	He's also a columnist for The Washington Post and the author of several bestsellers, including
1:09.4	in defense of a liberal education,
1:12.0	the post-American world, and 10 lessons for post-pandemic world.
1:18.2	Farid, it's lovely to see you and love you to have you on the discast.
1:22.0	Thank you so much for having me, Andrew. I'm so looking forward to this.
1:26.7	Well, let's start with your really interesting biography, which probably most people aren't fully aware of.
1:34.8	Tell us a little bit about where you were born, what was the atmosphere when you grew up,
1:40.4	what led you to become interested in politics and the life of ideas. Where were you
1:46.9	born? I was born in Bombay, India now called Mumbai. I was born to a very engaged family. My father
1:54.7	was a politician. My mother was a journalist. And our dinner table was sort of alive with ideas. But it was all, the ideas,
2:05.7	what I grew up with was an atmosphere in which ideas were very consequential, because it was
2:12.8	India newly independent. My father once said to me that the most important political choice he ever made in his life,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andrew Sullivan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Andrew Sullivan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.