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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan. It's kind of a treat today.

Catherine Voils holds a PhD in English from the University of California at Irvine in English.

She's a literary scholar and yet she writes now about national defense issues in culture and also the cultures of national defense issues.

And she's been writing great stuff for places like small wars and public books.

And I think she's going to be a really good person to talk to today. She is also a self-described lady playing along at home.

This is a great phrase comes from my friend Karen Schwartz who never fails to get these epigrams right.

A lady playing along at home I think works for all genders and it's the freshest way to say concerned citizen.

Because there's an element whether we like it or not of having to play Lafayr Rus, Lafayr Ucran, Lafayr Trump, sit home, be a concerned citizen and yet coordinate small efforts among your circle to demonstrate, to donate to candidates, to just stay informed and immune to disinformation.

And so I think there's a role for ladies again of all genders playing along at home. Welcome Catherine.

Thank you. Glad to be here.

You're one of my favorite types to have encountered on Twitter, not that you're a type.

Because you combine PhD in English, you're to my own heart, but you also have somehow found this niche, writing about the way national defense issues play out in culture and then the culture of national defense issues.

Tell me what lady playing along at home means to you.

So I stole it from Karen Schwartz to me what it means is we all have a role to play and we are all going to bring our full selves but also different pieces of our self to this time.

What really stuck out to me and probably the time that I really remember it first was around the issue of taxes and tax returns, which has been an ongoing theme for a number of years now.

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