Adrift: America in 100 Charts — Scott Galloway

Summary

This page offers information and video interviews relating to Scott Galloway’s new book Adrift: America in 100 Charts.

Articles

“5 Ways to Fix America Today,” TIME, by Scott Galloway, 27 Sep 2022 [View]
“Big Tech Founders are America’s False Idols,” Atlantic, by Scott Galloway, 23 Sep 2022 [View]
“Is Scott Galloway the Howard Stern of the Business World?,” NY Times, by Christopher Beam, 2 Aug 2022 [View]
“Scott Galloway Wants To Be The Most Influential Thought Leader In Business History,” Forbes, by Peter High, 17 Oct 2022 [View]

Book Description from Amazon

We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we’re faced with daunting questions – is our democracy under threat? How will Big Tech change our lives? What does job security look like for me? America is on the brink of massive change – change that will disrupt the workings of our economy and drastically impact the financial backbone of our nation: the middle class.

In Adrift, Galloway looks to the past – from 1945 to present day – to explain just how America arrived at this precipice. Telling the story of our nation through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today’s perfect storm. Adrift attempts to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway’s unique take on where we’re headed and who we’ll become, touching on topics as wide-ranging as online dating to minimum wage to the American dream.

Just as in 1945 and 1980, America is once again a nation at a crossroads. This time, what will it take for our nation to keep up with the fast and violent changes to our new world?

Videos

Below are videos in chronological order with the source and date for each entry.

MSNBC (8 Oct 2022)

“Scott Galloway On Why America Is A Nation ‘Adrift'” — Author, professor and podcast host Scott Galloway argues America is a nation “adrift.” Stephanie Ruhle sits down one-on-one with him to find out why and how to fix it. [Source]

PBS (3 Oct 2022)

“How Did America Go “Adrift?” Scott Galloway Explains” — While the current social and economic crisis in the United States seems complex, our next guest believes it can be fixed. Marketing professor Scott Galloway examines the future of the country in his new book “Adrift: America in 100 Charts.” He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the implications of a shrinking middle class. [Source]

Older Videos

Below are older videos that provide some background and context.

CNBC (15 Feb 2018)

“Markets Are No Longer Competitive: NYU’s Scott Galloway” — Scott Galloway, NYU Stern professor, and Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, discusses the need for big tech to break up to create more innovation and opportunity in the market. [Source]