27 June 2025
How power really works in DC
Connor Echols talks to best-selling author Barry Eisler about his new novel, The System.
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In this video:
- Barry’s new novel, ‘The System’
- CIA lessons & seeing like a Martian
- Fiction, empathy, and geopolitics
- No cartoon villains
- How power really works in DC
- Feinstein vs. Brennan: the ‘sit down’
- Why we excuse ourselves
- Jobs, jets & hidden threats
- The problem with the House
- Valeria’s dilemma: bend or break
- How power corrupts
- Humiliation and geopolitics
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