![]() ![]() My working theory is that it’s a byproduct of the luxury of American life, a byproduct of a very long stretch of peace and prosperity. But it’s a false relationship because the American people can change it at any time. ![]() ![]() “We allowed ourselves to get into this very odd relationship with the government where some large part of the population viewed it as the enemy… The relationship between the American people and government has a little bit in common with the relationship Eastern Europeans, before the fall of the wall, had with their government. “I was being asked what it would take to jar the culture in its relationship to its government,” he says. In a 2019 interview he suggested that only a pandemic would shock the American people into appreciating government again. ![]() Some have set Lewis up as a bit of a soothsayer. His new one, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, is about the scientific freethinkers who both predicted and managed the US's Covid-19 crisis in the face of bureaucratic ineptitude. The aforementioned books were about baseball and corporate finance. Michael Lewis, author of bestselling books like Moneyball and The Big Short, often writes about freethinking mavericks who are up against some institutional status quo. ![]()
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