Welcome to episode 89 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. Sorry I missed last week. I don't know if you can still tell from my voice, but I had something. I thought at first it was strep, but maybe it's not. Maybe it was COVID.

But you did not want

to hear me speak. I sounded

like some sort of

swamp monster from a

1950s B movie.

I also

missed the editor's podcast. That's the other

podcast that I'm on at National Review, twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. So you can look that up as well.

My guest this week is Christopher J. Scalia. But before we get to him, let me tell you about our sponsor this week, The Future of Freedom Podcast.

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My guest this week is Christopher J. Scalia, who's a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

The author, most recently, of 13 novels Conservatives Will Love, but probably haven't read, and the host of the back of the book podcast over at Rickashay. Christopher, welcome to the Charles C.W. Cook podcast.

Thank you, Charles C.W. Cook. It's great to be on. Excellent. All right. So I'm going to

start with a question that I put to you on the Rickishay podcast, I think last week, a couple of weeks ago. And that's this. Your book title is accurate, at least for me.

But probably haven't read bit, is correct.

Now, in your introduction, you have your annotated book in front of me.

In your introduction, you mention a bunch of other books.

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