Alex Wagner
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Alex Wagner is a prominent journalist known for her work at MSNBC and The Atlantic, where she explores the intersections of politics and culture. This interview reveals her ability to inspire dialogue and encourage active participation in societal issues, reflecting her role as a catalyst for change.
“Well, I think we tell ourselves these family stories that are necessarily kind of gauzy, warm ideas about what we left behind and what we got when we came here. And the truth is what we left behind, you know, the old world with all of its traditions and cultural practices that may have been lost was also filled with strife and problem.”
“Automation is going to take half the jobs that exist at the sort of white collar level by 2040, I think it is. That's going to dramatically change the US economy and the way people think of themselves in the workforce. And then there's just information.”
“Yeah, my dad's town was on on the Mississippi River, and there was a button factory which the buttons were made of shells from the river. And the button factory was like the gigantown. That's what people were employed by. And it just shuddered a couple of years ago.”
“Which we'll talk about later. But he grew up in an Irish Catholic family. He had five brothers and sisters. My dad's dad was a postdoc, a male deliveryman in rural Iowa. And his mom was a housewife. And the ethic of work and community, those were really powerful organizing principles in that house.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 101 - Alex Wagner
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