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The speaker believes New York’s crisis was driven more by larger structural factors unrelated to Robert Moses than by Moses himself.
Dwarkesh Patel · What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 29 Oct 2026
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“Moses got much of the blame for this. After all, the subtitle of The Power Broker is Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. But in my opinion, this crisis had more to do with larger structural factors that had nothing to do with Moses himself.”8:44Report a misattribution
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