Hello everybody, welcome to Crystal Kyland Friends.

Today we're going to be talking to Ben Burgess, who's a great left wing professor, and he

wrote a great article in the Daily Beast that just came out about Jill Rogan and censorship

in the left, and he wrote this podcast host, also give them an argument and says podcast.

That's right.

And he wrote a great book on Christopher Hitchens, who's a really fascinating character because

he would, you know, sort of an adamant and unapologetic socialist for much of his life.

And then as he got older when the war on terror happened, he did kind of a heel turn, and

he supported a lot of US wars and interventions.

And Ben maps like, well, how exactly did this happen?

It seems really weird.

It seems like a total, you know, flip in beliefs and morals, and, you know, he's got the

answer to that.

So, so stick around, you guys are going to really enjoy it.

I'm really looking forward to it.

But before we get to that, we have, at least as of the recording of this right now, we have

some breaking news.

Okay.

And the breaking news is that President Biden says that a US raid in Syria killed top Islamic

state leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Kurayishi.

Kurayishi sounds like a character in Mario, doesn't Mario Kart character?

It does Kurayishi.

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