Thanks to the wonderful team at Politics and Prose for hosting me and The World in A Phrase on Nov 15. And thanks to everyone — shout out to the Nieman Fellows! —who came out to juggle words, ideas, and balls.

There was a blank sheet selected from the globe — in fact, it was the first sheet selected from the globe 😬 — and the subject was: Rhetoric. I came up with something from FDR …