All right, we're doing a panel today and joining me is old grizzled Ruben report veteran

and author of Heavens on Earth, Michael Shermer and new returning champ.

I'm giving you a returning champ, Fred, before you've even sat down here once, author of

the new book Political Tribes, Amy Chu, how are you?

Great.

Thanks for having me.

Well, thank you guys for coming in.

Michael, you set this up, so I'm going to not let you speak for just a moment.

Yes, good.

No, you set this up.

You said the three of us should sit down and talk about a whole slew of issues.

But Amy, just so my audience can get to know you a little bit since they know a lot about

Michael already, just to give me a two minute synopsis of who you are before we talk about

the book and why.

Okay.

Well, I'm a Yale Law professor.

I principally write about foreign policy and democracy and ethnic conflict, mostly

in developing countries.

And I teach at Yale Law School in 2011, something crazy happened to me.

And that is I wrote in three months of memoir that I thought was going to be really funny.

And it was called Battle Him with the Tiger Mother and the World Exploded.

I created an international firestorm.

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