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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host duck brunt today we're

talking with douglas murray who has been described as one of the most important public

intellectuals today we've had some incredible talent on this show this season including several

pulitzer prize winners no one is more brilliant than Douglas Murray.

Among other books, he's the author of The Madness of Crowds, which was a huge bestseller,

and most recently The War on the West.

Even his critics allow that, quote, Murray has made a valuable contribution to the Battle of Ideas.

And we're lucky to have him here with us today. Douglas, welcome.

Great to be with you. What a pleasure.

So we have been corresponding about the cocktail choice today, and you offered three favorites, and on your list was my personal favorite. So we're going with that today, the rye Manhattan. Absolutely. And it has to be rye. Yeah, it's a little bourbon sometimes a little too sweet, right? Exactly. Exactly. I used to have no taste for bourbon in general until I discovered it can be a useful mixer for certain drinks. In an old-fashioned, but not from Manhattan. I think for Manhattan it has to be rye. So if you go straight, would it be you're more of a scotch drinker? Yes, although I have a kind of limit.

I used to drink good scotch, and now I don't particularly care.

Any scotch will do.

My late friend, Krista Hitchens used to say you should always designate a specific scotch,

because otherwise you'll just pour from a bucket behind the bar.

And that can be true.

So as a result, I usually say Johnny Walker Black Label. But I say it because I drink it with soda water these days. The older I've got, the less I can just drink it straight. So I tend to have it watered down with soda water. Oh, scotch and soda. But you are actually making me, I should say, since we're on the subject of booze, you are making me break actually my only drinking rule.

I was always told there were two rules of drinking.

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