Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Today's episode is the definition of a conversation we want to have on the Realignment. Speaking

of Anya Cominets, she is the author of the stolen year, how COVID changed children's lives

where we go now. She reported on higher education and K through education at National Public

Radio, which makes for the perfect person to have this conversation with. This is definitely

controversial. There's definitely bits which I agree with, parts I disagree with, but I think

this is a great first stab at history that we're going to have to be unpacking for a long

time, given the generational effects of decisions that were made. So hope you all enjoyed this conversation

and see you next time.

On your caminets, welcome to the Realignment. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's great to speak

with you. I do a lot of episodes around a bunch of different topics. We're doing Taiwan

this month. There's some coverage of post-Abejapan. But I'd say this is one of, this has

definitely been one of the most difficult episodes. I've had to try to put together because

this obviously on 15 different levels is a conversation where it's really difficult

to have it both in good faith, but also push around parts I think are going to make

basically everybody uncomfortable in different ways. So I want to basically start with this

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