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We have with us today, George Lee.

He is director of content at the James G. Martin Center for

Academic Renewal in North Carolina. He's a columnist at Forbes magazine, and he's written

often for National Review. In the past, he's the author of a new novel, however, entitled

The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, a political fable for our time, and that is our topic today. Welcome, George.

Glad to be on with you, Mark.

First a question, before we get to the novel, what does the James Martin Center do?

We are a small think tank, and we focus on higher education issues, and that almost always means the bad stuff that's going on in higher education, the waste, the frivolity, the venality, the politicization.

Those are our topics.

We write about several times a week.

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