The Thinkers Mark Carney Cited Would Have Warned Us About Him

Tap The Maple · Jan 22, 2026 · 15m

Mark Carney’s Davos speech is being praised as “powerful” and “historic.”It isn’t.In this episode of Tap the Maple, we take Mark Carney’s own intellectual references — Václav Havel, Thucydides, and Alexander Stubb — and use their actual words to dismantle his argument completely.Carney invoked Havel’s warning about “living within a lie.”Havel warned against systems that diffuse responsibility and hide power in elite networks.Carney invoked Thucydides to describe a brutal, inevitable world of power politics.Thucydides wrote the Melian Dialogue as a warning about what happens when leaders…