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I hope you're all doing okay.

We are in Sydney at the moment, so we want to give a nod to the traditional owners of the

land that we're on, the Gattical people of the Iora Nation, and to indigenous folks who are young and old and all your ancestors,

it's great to all be here together. I am hugely proud of Claire Leimlet-Quillette,

the world's leading free thought magazine and also to Susie Jamil at Think Inc, which is the leading intellectual touring company in Australia for collaborating on this.

It's a fascinating series of conversations with the world's most

interesting minds. Today's event is also backed by the Judith Nielsen

Institute as you just heard. So a big thanks to them for supporting us. I am Josh Zepps like everyone on

planet Earth I have a podcast called Uncomfortable Conversations. Two of our first guests were Claire Lehman herself and also Sam Harris. So if you do like smart

funny provocative interviews, then whip out your phone right now and look up uncomfortable conversations

with Josh Sepp's. Glenn Lowry is one of America's leading academics and public intellectuals.

He has a PhD in economics from MIT.

He was the first black tenured professor of economics in the History of Harvard University,

and he's published hundreds of essays and books and reviews.

He was for many years a contributing editor at the New Republic,

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