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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Victor Davis-Hansson show.

Victor is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

And he is the possessor of a website,

the blade of Perseus. It's address, victorhansan.com. We are recording on Monday, June 9th. This episode

will be up on Thursday the 19th. Why so long? Well, Victor will be having some surgery.

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