Greetings to your listeners.

This is Jonah Goldberg, the host of the Remnant Podcast. We have in the studio today a good old friend of mine, a colleague for the time being at National Review.

Are you a senior writer or a senior writer at National Review online?

Okay, these are Jesuitical Distinctions these days.

Yes.

And you are the... Oh, sorry, you are Michael Brendan Dordey.

Yes. Welcome.

And you have a new book out.

My father left me Ireland.

An American son, Search for Home.

Now, I have some... I'm going to press you on various things in a little bit.

But first of all, let me just say it is a lovely book.

And I mean that in a not a condescending way.

Like, oh, those are lovely shoes or something, right?

It's a lovely book in that it is clearly written from respect of love.

Of a search for love, of trying to put meaning into love.

And one of the things that makes it a little bit of a challenge for us, which we were just saying off

Mike, is that part of the conceit of it, again, I don't mean that in a majority of the sense,

part of the idea of it is to show rather than tell.

Yeah.

So it's very evocative.

You have to sort of draw meaning out of it rather than have you hit over the head with it.

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