John Dearie's Center for American Entrepreneurship

European Straits #110

Dear all,

I’m spending this whole week on the East Coast of the US, along with my colleague Zineb Mekouar, who’s in charge of public affairs at The Family. Indeed that is a field in which Zineb and I have a lot to learn from the Americans. But considering that our trip is about promoting my book Hedge, I do like to think that we Europeans have a bit that we can share with our American friends, too.

I already experienced that on Sunday, recording a podcast with Colin Mortimer of the Neoliberal Project (which is about reinventing liberalism in the American tradition rather than promoting Margaret Thatcher’s ideas). Then on Monday Zineb and I attended a book club around Hedge at Tech:NYC. As for yesterday, it was dominated by a discussion with our friend Ian Hathaway and other guests at Columbia University about a new Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age.

Then we travelled to Washington, DC for the second act of our trip, with highlights that include connecting with Chris Schroeder, autho…