Patrick Radden Keefe, journalist: “We live in profoundly mercenary times. Do you have money? Welcome”
The American reporter is one of the most brilliant non-fiction writers of his generation. He returns with a book in which the new culture of money beats.
Radden Keefe, a renowned investigative journalist, is concerned about the future of a free press in the United States. He recounts being too afraid to bring his laptop on a trip abroad during Donald Trump's first term, fearing it would be confiscated upon his return at New York airport. Keefe describes feeling uneasy about being stopped by a secret police force akin to the Stasi. He works at The New Yorker, where they are already preparing for a potential raid by the Department of Justice.
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