Adam Gopnik, the celebrated New Yorker writer whom Tina worked with for many years when she was editor in chief, talks with her about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities, born of a talk he had with his teenage daughter on the night President Trump was elected. In the book, Gopnik posits that it is not radical revolution that brings about stable, pluralistic nations but the daily small sanities which flow from, among other liberal principles, the ideals of thriving public education and a permanent commitment to reform. He credits such forces as the culture-poking premises of some American TV sitcoms as agents of sane, cumulative political change. Gopnik also shares with his former editor how the assignment she gave him years ago––a posting in Paris—changed his outlook on the world.
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