2025-11-13
1 小时 1 分钟I'm Shiloh Brooks.
I'm a professor and CEO, and I believe reading good books makes us better men.
Today, I'm sitting down with Fareed Zakaria.
Fareed is a renowned journalist, political commentator, and best-selling author.
The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925 changed Fareed's life.
Today, I'm asking him why.
This is old school.
Fried Zakaria, welcome to old school.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's a pleasure to have you.
One of the reasons is you've written a lot of books yourself and this is a podcast about books and you've got really wide-ranging intellectual interests,
which I appreciate.
Can you talk a little bit about how you got to CNN with such a wide variety of intellectual interests and how those have shaped you?
It's partly because I'm a kind of jack of all trades,
you know, I've never been very good at specializing in siloing myself.
And I discovered
as I was working as a journalist that it actually helped me to be able to range as widely as my intellectual curiosity.
And so, you know, I was at Yale,
I studied history, and I studied a lot of American and European history,