out. i know is a very rainy and end of the week, and all of that sort of thing. i have been excited by the of which entity to come ever since i found out that there was going to be his chance to present the book in this particular environment. so, what i will do is kind of take as little time as possible, actually to be is that some of the main ideas of the book, just so you know what kind of project is. and then i would like to kind of open it up for conversation, and i m happy to talk about questions from the book or to talk about sort of american politics more broadly because i know that many of you may know me much better for my sort of public role than from my academic role. so this book is a long time coming, it feels like. i have been doing a lot of press lately about the book. people keep saying why did you write this book now? i didn t write this book now. have been writing this book for with longtime. i just happened to manage to finally finished it and get it publi