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So today I have something different for you. I have an audiobook preview. The book I did with

Majid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, a dialogue, has just been released as an audiobook.

And in this podcast, you'll hear about a half hour of the audiobook and about half hour of the

post script that we recorded, especially for the release of the audiobook. This post script was

not part of the hardcover, and in it we answer reader questions and talk about how the book has

been received and deal with some of our critics. But you'll hear, I hope, that this book was really

made to be an audiobook. It is in fact a dialogue. Of course you'll hear the distinction between our

reading this dialogue rather than merely producing it extemporaneously. But the fact that we're

reading it allows us to be precise. And on this topic, more than many others, I think precision

is now the key. In the post script, we just have a conversation, much more like a podcast conversation,

and you'll hear about a half hour of that as well. In any case, this was a hugely gratifying

collaboration for me. I'm just so happy to have connected with Majid to have started this dialogue,

to have produced this audiobook and the print edition, and to now be able to call him a friend,

it's just been a win just across the board for me. Now, unfortunately, I don't think the problems

we discuss in this book are going away anytime soon. I think Majid's voice in particular is going

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