Max Teichmann recently reread Franklin Roosevelt’s 1933 Inauguration Address and discovered some extraordinary insights. It could have been written for the world of 2002.A friend has just shown me a copy of Franklin Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1933. It was at the height of the Depression, when, at one stage, one-third of the American labour force was out of work.The address has a very contemporary ring about it; except that I can’t think of one leading Western politic…
