Previously cited in this thread:
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/is-free-worth-it
That's a just a pull quote and a weird place to put a reference to The New Yorker interview anyway. Here's the whole thing.
Thanks, bogiesan. I just read it. Very nice. We've heard a lot of it before, of course, but it's certainly one of the better interviews with him.
bogiesan, the whole thing is in the link provided in Allen's post, as well as in this previous one by Tom_MN.
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/new-yorker-article
But that's OK; multiple postings in different forums might mean more interested readers will see it? :O)
Thanks, bogesian. This is an interesting article and I hadn’t seen the other forum references to it.