# Event Details - **Event Name**: Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg with Andrew Sullivan — at St. Paul's - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: An evening in conversation with Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg for the release of their new books, Blockers & Profiles in Cowardice.About this EventBlockers. It wasn’t a compliment. In the new Washington, it was the worst thing you could be—especially if you worked in the federal government and wanted to keep your job. A Blocker was a holdover, an impediment, someone who didn't get the message—and, most of all, someone who didn't belong.Michael Lewis found seven of them.Blockers is the story of people who believed they had a calling, who were convinced they were doing something the country couldn’t do without, and then discovered they were no longer wanted. One kept Americans’ most sensitive tax data out of the wrong hands and another made sure that politicians and civil servants played by the rules. One figured out how to stop wildfires from destroying suburban neighborhoods, another helped uncover the mysteries of cystic fibrosis.There was also a security guard.It should come as no surprise that the writer who made subprime mortgages gripping (The Big Short) and who turned baseball statistics into poetry (Moneyball) could transform the first two years of the second Trump administration into a thriller about federal employees. But he does.And he does something else. He puts before us a clear question: If these public servants can’t survive in government today, then what does that say about us?New York Times best-selling author Michael Lewis has published many books on subjects ranging from politics to Wall Street to sports. Lewis’s most recent book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Going Infinite, told the story of FTX’s collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center, Sam Bankman-Fried. More recently, Lewis edited Who Is Government?, an anthology by an all-star team of writers exploring the consequential work of government workers. Lewis is the creator and host of Apple’s #1-rated podcast Against the Rules, a searing look at what’s happened to fairness in American life through the lens of people who depend on public trust. He grew up in New Orleans and lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump enablers with a few key things in common: They have money and power. They represent intuitions that are central in determining whether America remains a free, functioning democracy or not. And they absolutely know better. History starts now.In Profiles in Cowardice, Jacob Weisberg has written one of the first defining books of the Trump Era—how this pitch-black political moment happened, why so few resisted, and what it reveals about the character of American leadership.Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and Big Tech. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone, and Wall Street. Brad Karp, Paul, Weiss, and Big Law. Mitch McConnell and the United States Senate. Eight individuals in all, together forming an entwined network of power in America, and a new way to understand how authoritarianism can take root in an open society—not by overthrowing institutions, but by bending and bullying them into submission.The book is a masterful study of the ways people create rationalizations to justify basic human instincts such as greed, vanity and fear—above all fear. Fear is the great enemy of democracy, and the book illuminates how it operates, how it disguises itself, and how it spreads. The book is timeless: its profiles are case studies, but they are also mirrors. They ask readers to examine their own instincts, their own silences, their own thresholds for action. This is not a morality tale with easy villains. It is an attempt to describe the moral mechanics of democratic failure. By studying that failure up close, we may better understand what courage truly requires—and why it is so rarely summoned when it matters most.Jacob Weisberg is the author of books including Ronald Reagan (2016), The Bush Tragedy (2008), and In an Uncertain World (2003), co-written with former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. A native of Chicago, he is the former longtime editor of Slate and the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries. He serves as Chair of The Committee to Protect Journalists and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.Lewis and Weisberg will be in conversation with Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan is the founder and editor of The Weekly Dish, a site launched in 2000, and former editor of both Michael Lewis and Jacob Weisberg at The New Republic. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/michael-lewis-and-jacob-weisberg-with-andrew-sullivan-at-st-pauls/100001993341087853 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: St Paul's Lutheran Church - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 50.9, max: 84.13, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: St Paul's Lutheran Church - **lat**: 38.9537497 - **long**: -77.07043220000003 - **full address**: St Paul's Lutheran Church, 4900 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg with Andrew Sullivan — at St. Paul's - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/0d07140f4b8c1c6a09529082fc8c1d06dc666fc291c78f9cc6884f0f8e08e037-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8e878-gmir.jpg?v=1787870790 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg with Andrew Sullivan — at St. Paul's being held? - **A:** Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg with Andrew Sullivan — at St. Paul's takes place on Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at St Paul's Lutheran Church, 4900 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg with Andrew Sullivan — at St. Paul's? - **A:** Michael Lewis & Jacob Weisberg with Andrew Sullivan — at St. Paul's is organized by Politics and Prose. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Politics and Prose's events? - **A:** Attendees have given Politics and Prose a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. 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