Some are More Equal Than Others

At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas held at Sydney Opera House and The Wheeler Centre in November, creator of The Wire David Simon presented Some People Are More Equal Than Others… Discussing the ever-increasing divide between rich and poor in America, and how capitalism has lost sight of its social compact.

“There’s no barbed wire around West Baltimore or around East Baltimore… the areas in my city that have been utterly divorced from the American experience that I know… There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show”

Read an edited extract of Simon’s speech on The Guardian.