Hello everyone and welcome to this podcast introduction to today's program my interview with

Dr Richard Slotkin, emeritus professor of history at Wesleyan in Middletown, Connecticut, the author of a really important new book,

A Great Disorder, National Myth and the Battle for America.

He previously wrote a series of books on the frontier beginning in 1973

with Regeneration Through Violence, the mythology. the I just

getting started here.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I've had access to some of the great minds of our time and there will be more. We're just getting started here. We need your help, truly, we need your help.

And if you're willing to help, that's what we're going to do with it and I want to talk with all the best thinkers in the country

historians novelists essayistsists, policy people.

There's a centrist politics to what we're doing,

and I think some of you would think centrist

with a left-leaning centrist, but it's not far left at all.

I'm a very conservative person in some important respects,

and I'm, as a humanity scholar, I am not interested in an echo chamber

of the so-called enlightened ones.

But these people are world-class historians like Richard Rhodes, who wrote the making of the atomic bomb and I'm going to be interviewing him again early next week.

And here's Richard Slotkin. to be interviewing him again early next week.

And here's Richard Slotkin.

And we have David Nacandry, who's now

written his most recent book on what happened after Captain Cook with respect to the search for the

Northwest Passage and so this is a golden time I couldn't have imagined this even

five years ago but now these technologies allow us to cross space at low

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