Good afternoon and welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you for spending your tuesday with us. Im the executive director of the institute for human academy, joseph capizzi. We have been here for three years. Ross has been an important member of the institute, our media fellow helps coordinate these events, the more contentious events i have been involved in. The release of the latest book, ross is one of the most important commentators, the opinion page, has written a few books at this point, they became something. I will engage ross in conversation about the book. It is an interesting book, not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tack to explore what is going on in our culture. Once he and i exhausted each other, we open up to the rest of you. If you have a question please raise your hand and they will approach you, dont be alarmed, make your question and ross will engage you. I implore you to phrase a question. More time ross has to respond b
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