The Economist.
I'm in a seminar room in a colonial-style house on the Harvard University campus
with a group of about a dozen students.
They've heard the elevator pitch for my trip around America.
They've read some Tocqueville, and they're geared up to have a lively discussion about freedom of expression.
But they're also here because there's free pizza.
Go ahead, everyone, go and get a slice.
I'll get a slice.
Yeah, just go get slices.
After the slices have been distributed, we go round the room and introduce ourselves.
I'm a senior at the college.
Um, I concentrate in history and literature, American studies, and psychology.
I'm a first-year at Harvard College, and I'm an artist and a dancer,
and I'm excited to be here with you guys.
For fear of sounding unoriginal, I'm also a freshman at Harvard College,
and I'm thinking of concentrating in philosophy.
I'm also a stand-up comic.
This stop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just next to the city of Boston,
is the halfway point of my journey.
In New York, I met people to whom America's equality of conditions has been kind,