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Okay, it has been an intense week. I was on vacation this last week.

This is the first vacation I've taken in quite some time with my family. It's been at least a year.

I can't recall the last one, I think. But anyway, I was on vacation and attempting to be a good

father and good husband, not paying too much attention to social media. But I did happen to catch

at one point that Glenn Greenwald and Resa Oslon and Ezra Klein had all attacked me in the span of

an hour on Twitter. And genius that I am, I felt that I needed to respond right then and there.

I think the lesson of this whole episode is don't rush to make things worse.

That is a lesson I will try to fully absorb going forward. And frankly, I think I need to rethink

my relationship with social media. There's so many problems that need not be created,

that are pure confections of having said something or noticed what somebody said on social media.

So I'll be rethinking my relationship to all that. To bring you all up to date, I know that many

of you have noticed what happened to me in the last week, but I just want to give you my picture

of it and then tell you what's happening going forward. Almost exactly a year ago, I had Charles

Murray on my podcast. And Murray, as most of you know, is the author of the notorious book,

The Bell Curve, which while it was not focused on differences between races in any significant

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