Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is our friend, former editorial colleague and frequent past host of this podcast, Seth Barron.

Seth is now the managing editor of the American Mind. It's a great publication over at the Claremont Institute. I encourage

you to check it out. And you can follow Seth on Twitter at Seth Barron, NYC. Seth also has an

important new book coming out this spring. It's called The Last Days of New York, and we'll

talk about it a bit later.

Listeners of the podcast will also be interested to know that the City Journal team is

wrapping up production on a special issue that will be releasing shortly. It's called New York

City Reborn, and it will gather together all of the essays on the future of the city

and ideas for getting us out of its pandemic or post-pandemic situation that we've been publishing

online over the last six months. These will be updated versions of those pieces. But we've asked

Seth to come on today to talk about one of the big

stories in New York and national politics going on right now, which is the controversy surrounding

Governor Andrew Cuomo and his administration's handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the state.

It was reported last week that the governor's team admitted basically to hiding data

on the number of victims in nursing homes in 2020 throughout the state.

This was purportedly to escape public scrutiny and possible legal action by the Trump

Justice Department last year. Since the story came out, there's been reports of the governor

threatening state lawmakers, an investigation opened by the U.S. Attorney's Office, and more

than I'm sure we'll get into with our guest today.

So Seth, thanks very much for joining us.

Oh, absolutely, Brian.

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