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You would not think that a thousand-page biography of William F. Buckley would be...

You're fucking with me?

Yeah. You're fucking with it. A thousand page? It's F. Buckley would be... You're fucking with me? You're fucking with it?

It's incredible.

Really?

Incredible.

Yeah?

Yes.

Like, first off, just because it's like this arc of, uh, history that's fascinating

and he, all these different, like James Baldwin's in there.

I mean, he was the first person to publish Joan Didion.

Is that right?

Yeah, she wrote for the National Review.

But, yeah, so it's this arc of American history that I think is fascinating.

So basically, he fondly recounts he was not invited, but his brothers at the direction

of their father go burn a across on somebody's law.

Like his father's like profoundly anti-Semitic, profoundly racist, just a reactionary bigot.

And then so when you understand that, then when you understand, when you understand, when you he's, he's actually doing this thing that's kind of endemic to the conservative movement, which is like, people have these opinions, these instincts.

How do we intellectualize that?

It's a way of creating like an intellectual cover for these sort of like primal like emotional prejudiced

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