he was convicted of lending money from one partin to another and not being able to cover the run on the bank. that was the interesting book for me to review because he falls in love with his subjects and he was also i think pretty soft on sam brinkman freed and that maverick taking on the establishment when as it turned out he was a con man essentially. >> the headline and the sub headline of your review is the journalist and fallen going infinite, michael lewis gets close, too close to sam brinkman freed. one of my favorite pieces of literature is about the idea that they inevitably betray their subjects and in a way the problem here was he didn't betray his subject he adopted the position and ends up feeling very sympathetic to somebody and that iss what i find interesting if you spend a lot of time with somebody and see things from their point of view you never end up moreer sympathetic. but there were all the people whoo lost out. i made a documentary about crypto before ii wrote this review and people put their college funds into crypto or something they plann to renovat, small to

there's also a particular partin element of this. because of america's racial history. african americans have been treated unjustly throughout the history of the country beginning with slavery. even after the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment you had the continuation of the racial hierarchy that lasted up until the civil rights movement. this created a focus on the mechanism for subsequent group seeking social justice to fall in the same category of civil rights that needed to be corrected and use the same techniques instead of relying on legislatures relying on courts in order to achieve the equal outcomes. inequality morphed in away from marxist class struggle what we now call identity politics. i went to make really clear since i've been involved in arguments over this for the last several years. ever since i wrote a book called identity what is wrong with identity politics. i want to be very clear about something for this illiberal form of identity politics and there is an illiberal form of identity politics. i have no problem with the liberal form. liberal form i would sa