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So Dr. Hancock, we've talked a bit about your upbringing and about some of the main political

philosophers like Rawls, Harvey Mansfield, Leo Strauss, and others that really influenced you.

And so much of what we've just got through talking about is fertile ground for sejump into some of the

more meaty and detailed discussions about current events within both politics and culture. But before

religious culture, but before we do that, is there anything else that you would highlight as

particularly, you know, formative experiences between Harvard and Hillsdale and Moscow and BYU

that you would say were either really critical events that shaped your philosophies and perspectives

or just interesting stories that would help us understand why you feel like this is something

to spend an entire life discussing. Because really, you've spent your life, you could have made

millions as a lawyer, you've spent your life talking about Strauss and Mansfield and Rawls and

and Russo, and you must feel like it's really important. And I'm wondering if there's anything

else in your formative years, whether it's your mission or life experiences that really speak

to why this is so important for you. Just a word about my mission in terms of intellectual

caste. I was in the Paris-France mission and delighted to say that my second son was in that

same mission about 25 years later, so it was good to share that experience in a way together.

But I would say that in terms of my intellectual formation, of course, missionaries aren't intellectuals,

I did probably study more French than I should have strictly speaking by distributing my study

hours on my mission. But I didn't have time to study a lot of French thought. I spent a year in

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