Tooze Unplugged | Ones and Tooze Live 

For those who have followed Tooze's career from his days as an accomplished but quite recognizable historian of 20th century Germany/Europe to understand his transformation into an über-productive trans-Atlantic 'pundit' and American-based liberal media darling it's worth wading through all the hagiography in this interview. Tooze offers a fascinating admixture of complex continental-style inter-disciplinary method and theory of history, a seemingly encyclopedic general knowledge base coupled with a defence of privilege. But one thing that became clear to me through this interview is how his personal and career arc followed his intellectual inclinations. His unique take on Europe in the first half of the 20th century was to see it as refracted through the rise of American hegemony. But the twist is that for Tooze to find his professional 'sweet spot', he needed to move to American and have his life refracted through the same hegemony that had long inspired his sense of contemporary historical imagination.