I ran across an hour-long interview of AOC, some here might be interested. [View all]

It isn't very often we get long, informal interviews of our political figures. Too common are prepared statements, sound-bites, quick hits for TV/cable news or radio, or highly rehearsed/negotiated sitdowns for 60 Minutes/etc.

So on the most recent episode of "99% Invisible"
show's main site -- https://99percentinvisible.org/
show's "About" page -- https://99percentinvisible.org/about/the-show/
the episode's site -- https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-power-broker-04-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/
a podcast that is generally about design and the built environment, the topic was this "book club" they are doing this year on Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" a biography of Robert Moses. Or rather THE biography of Robert Moses. As with all of the episodes of the book club, after the host and co-host discussed this month's section of the book, they interviewed someone relevant. This time, AOC.

It is a wide ranging conversation, they talk about Robert Moses and NYC and public works, of course because that is the general topic, but also her family's experience with that and how those projects affect neighborhoods, and the learning curve in Congress, and balancing getting stuff done with other goals, and a number of other things. Nothing particularly mind blowing, but there is a level of candor and humanity generally missing from 99% (to borrow a number) of politicians' interviews/public speaking.

The podcast episode is nearly 3 hours long, but the AOC interview is only the last hour (give or take a couple of minutes) so just fast forward/scroll ahead -- unless you want to hear two hours of talk about the middle of Robert Moses's life. If you "don't do podcasts" but would be interested in the interview, click on the episode link I put above, and on that web page you can listen directly through your web browser.

Oh, and if you have never read "The Power Broker" then I should tell you that it is a great book, marvelously written and astonishingly well researched, and goddamn is Robert Moses an infuriating person to spend 1200 excellent pages reading about.