Lawrence Wright Talks to David Remnick About Texas as a Bellwether of American Politics

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Jul 31, 2017

Lawrence Wright has investigated the secrets of Scientology and the inner-workings of Al Qaeda, but his latest project didn’t take him far from his home in Austin, Texas. In “The Future Is Texas," Wright examines the political climate of a state in which every statewide office is held by a Republican, even as the state’s demographics shift leftward. Wright argues that Texas holds the key to understanding the direction in which our country is headed.

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