I've been seeing a dog.

There's nothing going on.

And there's nothing going on tonight.

We can think of the city. time. Good afternoon Michael

Michael Ellis here, let that be your welcome for the next hour.

We have with us a very rare three-peat guest, one of the most beloved

guests we have on the show, Arthur Herman, who is a historian. I'm going to go through your bibliography because it is so diverse, and by

which I don't mean there's one book about black people, I mean just all over the map intellectually and just so much great

material there. Let's go through it. Okay. I'm going to do a little bit out of order.

Joseph McCarthy, biography of McCarthy, how the Scots invented the modern world.

That is a book which people cite a lot.

So the New York Times best song.

Yeah, and it, but it's also, I think, a big kind of trendsetter

in terms of how people view discourse.

And people have said if you have to go do a speech to any kind of Scottish organization,

get that book because you'll have anecdotes and stories in there that no one has heard before.

How the British Navy shaped the modern world to rule the waves.

I'm getting a whale tooth pen made for me right now, which is illegal.

Gandhi and Churchill, Freedom's Forge how America's business produced victory in

World War II. This one I love, The Cave in the Light, Plato versus Aristotle, Douglas

MacArthur, and most recently, 1917 Lenin Wilson and the birth of a new world disorder.

I thought it's the new world disorder.

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