Hello everyone. Hello everybody I had the privilege today to speak with IAN Hersi Ali who I don't know if you took the bravest people in the world, she'd be one of them, as far as I can tell.

And she made a remarkable splash years ago with her first book Infidel, which talked about her experience

about moving from Somalia to the Netherlands,

which is like the center of Western civilization.

And so that was a great book.

And Iann has had a very storied political career to say the least and a threatened life in many ways

standing up against the Islamic fundamentalists. She's recently converted to Christianity

which is also a stunningly brave move for someone in her situation.

And she's launched a new enterprise called Restoration, which is a sub-stack media enterprise designed to make a case for the necessary primacy and what would you say,

bedrock foundational necessity of the presumptions of Western civilization.

And so we had a chance to talk about all that.

And so I would say it'll be 90 minutes well worth your while with the additional conversation

that I had with her as well on the daily wire side.

So welcome everybody, listen and Diane, that's always worthwhile.

She's a real force of nature.

And so, as I said, it was a privilege to talk to her again.

All right, so you've recently announced a new writing and media endeavor, and I've been following that quite avidly, particularly on Twitter and so called restoration. And so do you

want to tell us how that came to be and what it is and what you're hoping to

accomplish with it?

Well, restoration, I think the word says it is, my mission is to restore our institutions that you

and I love to their original missions, ideas, our culture, the origins

and history of our culture, institutions like the family, schools,

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