Hello everyone this is Victor Davis Hanson today and I'm doing solos Sammy Wink and

Jack Fowler on here but I have the pleasure of having as our guests Miranda Devine.

You all know her from her podcast

and she's a columnist for the New York Post.

And we're gonna talk about current events

current events with her. But we'll be, before we do, we'll be right back, we have a break.

We have a break. And we're back.

Miranda, you've been your whole life going back and forth between Australia and the United States.

You were born in Australia and you were educated in Australia.

What you give us a little background?

Yes and also Tokyo, which actually was sort of like a mini United States.

There was such America files in the 60s and the 70s.

So my parents were journalists.

My father was a foreign correspondent and he was a New

Zealander but he was working for an Australian newspaper when he met my

mother and they went to New York where I was born and then to Tokyo where one of my sisters was born and I went to an American

school had an American accent. Then we went to Australia when I was about 11 and

I overnight changed my accent to a very strong Australian accent which my mother was horrified about.

And then my parents came back to Chicago, sorry, New York, Chappiqui.

My father was then working for Reader's Digest and then moved to Chicago,

where he was editor of the Chicago Sun Times and I then joined them in Chicago and went to Northwestern University to do a journalism

masters which was fantastic just a wonderful experience and they my parents have not

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