Russell Shorto

Published: June 30, 2019, 11:36 a.m.

Holland’s 17th century emphasis on trade rather than conquest helped build a culture of tolerance: everybody’s money is good. The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers a sort of moral defense of capitalism in a conversation at the Fraunces Tavern Museum: look out the window and see what he’s describing. With music from Jefferson Hamer.