Hub and spoke.

Audio collective.

Do you introduce yourself?

I'm your dad, your proud dad.

Who are you also?

My name is Bernard Avi Shai, and I teach at Dartmouth and write periodically.

So describe what we had going down to the basement on the walls of the house that I grew up in.

If I remember correctly, we had the Rockwell paintings, the reproductions of the four freedoms that

Roosevelt had spoken about, and obviously Rockwell was very impressed by. But you don't want me to

describe them now, do you? You can describe them. Well, I remember there was this one guy standing looking very earnest in a very weather-beaten leather jacket,

speaking his mind in a local public forum with very wizened face with lines in it.

It was a very, very touching and moving portrait.

I only discovered later what he was defending, but never mind.

And then there was a kind of collage of various religions,

which always struck me as being very lovely and warm and inviting,

but also a little kitchy. And then there was a woman serving a turkey on Thanksgiving,

which I didn't particularly like, because it looked like she was holding something much lighter than what she was

actually holding. I didn't think a woman of that age could be holding a turkey that was about

80 pounds. Well, she has a lot of people to feed.

And I don't remember the fourth one. Remind me. It was the parents tucking in the kids. That was always my

favorite. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Well, that I should not have forgotten. Yes, it was freedom from fear.

So, where are you right now? I'm sitting in my office in Jerusalem.

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