History of the people, we say this is a picture if and who doesnt want to be a patriot . Host who are the pastries . Guest those who love america even with her false, went to see her improve, to stand beside her. Im always asked, who is a patriot and its easier to give an explanation of who was there. Someone says i love my wife. Youre not wearing a wedding ring. The last two times i heard you were running down in public. But you still live your wife . Shes getting beat up in the parking lot. She probably deserves it. That is not a patriot. Host in her most recent book, a pastries history of the modern world from americas exceptional dissent to the atomic, if you write its democratic processes or selfconfidence. America remains the worlds sole exceptional nation, which is to say it aloud is a self written narrative that explains why the u. S. Should, not just good influence others. Why is america exceptional . Guest we get into this with four factors that we are to make american except
Series of trials that have been taking place there. Im not going to trespass on the subject matter because jess is going to give us a good taste of what hes been writing about. But i did want to introduce jess, the person. Hes someone i got to know a few years ago when we were both traveling from washington, d. C. To to williamsburg, and the train, amtrak broke down, and we grabbed a car and rode down together and had just an extraordinarily enjoyable time because jess is, as i think most people know, one of the leading legal reporters in the United States. But what they may not know is his, you know, hes a person of extraordinary humor and wit. And so i want to expose a little bit of that to you right now because when he was in college at harvard, he was roommates with, what, peter say gal of, wait, wait, dont tell me. And they were both members of not they were not the harvard crimson crowd, they were the Harvard Lampoon along with the head of the lampoon at that time, conan obrien.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was great trepidation about China. When I visited the country decades earlier, I was confounded by the poverty in rural
Liu Hongjie (China), Skyline, 2021. Late last year, a colleague sent me a letter decrying some of my writings about China, notably the last newsletter of 2023. This newsletter is my response to him. The situation in China is the cause of a great deal of consternation amongst the left. I am glad you have raised the