Age of Revolutions

Fareed Zakaria on the Midterms and What Comes Next

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, 3 November 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 9 min 41 sec in.

Fareed Zakaria invokes his book Age of Revolutions while explaining the global rise of right-wing populism. He describes the book as being about a 30-year period of accelerating technological, economic, and cultural change that has provoked a widespread backlash—people wanting to stop the train—which politicians channel into a politics of nostalgia promising a return to a more stable past.

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