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The Bull Works Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the

political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona

Charen, policy editor of the Bul work and a syndicated columnist, and I am joined by our regulars, Damon Linker, who writes the

sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, and

Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

Our special guest this week is Scott Linsicum of the Cato Institute who also writes for the dispatch about trade, economics,

all of those good things.

So Scott, thanks so much for joining us.

This is not your first time here. We haven't seen you in a while and welcome to your first video version of this podcast.

Yeah, I would have worn a nicer shirt had I known. I'm sorry, I forgot to say. No, no forgot to say. You look great though. It's in my puffy

vest it's fine. Thanks again for having me back. Oh great to see you and for

our listeners we of course are going to get to what's going on on the hill and all of that is coming up.

But first, I'm really glad to have Scott here because one of the things that is close to my heart, Scott,

is a project that you have inaugurated,

which is a defense of globalization, and all of the ways in which it has made our lives better,

and not just Americans' Americans lives but the world.

It's enriched all of us but let's get down to a really nitty gritty aspect of it that you

write about food.

And particularly like what is available in Supermills. food and

I are old enough to remember like what is available in supermarkets. I mean,

Linda and Bill and I are old enough to remember like when we were young

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