2025-02-06
54 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Our guest today is Atusa Araxia Abrahamian,
a journalist and author whose writing explores the cracks in the nation state system.
A former editor at the Nation and Al Jazeera America,
Abrahamian's reporting and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books,
the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Intercept, and many other publications.
In her new book, the Hidden How Wealth Hacks the World, Abrahamian maps the hidden geography of the wealthy elite,
exposing a parallel universe that transcends national borders, bureaucracy, and red tape.
Joining her in conversation is Adam McCawley, the politics and philosophy writer and researcher.
Let's join Adam now with more.
Welcome to Intelligence squared.
I'm Adam McCauley.
It is my pleasure to welcome Atusa to Intelligence Squared.
Thanks for having me, Adam.
So this book takes the reader around the world and into corners not usually seen or perhaps consciously explored.
But the propulsive force of the book stems from your personal experience.
So I wondered, to start, if you could take us home for a moment,
tell us about Geneva, what the city is or was to you and what it's since come to represent.
Yeah.