coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

The reason why we would be monkeying around with viruses

and trying to make them more lethal

is in case somebody else does it.

So we would know how to defend ourselves.

Now this is like the most patently bizarre sounding excuse.

It's like if you were caught building a bomb in your house

and the police were like, what are you doing?

And you're like, well, I'm worried that someone's gonna bomb me.

So I need to explode bombs to figure out how to protect myself.

I mean, it's like paranoid logic, right?

But at the national level.

Hello, and welcome once again to The Round Table.

You're a weekly publishers and editors podcast

here at The American Mind.

Guess what? It's another two-hander.

I'm your host, Spencer Klaven,

associate editor of the Claremont Review Books

and features editor of The American Mind.

And our various colleagues all have more important things to do,

apparently, except Seth Baron.

He never said anything more important to do.

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