We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Jyszewski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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We're joined today by Senator Josh Hawley, who is the author of the new book, Manhood,

the masculine virtues America needs.

Senator Hawley, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

Such an interesting book, an obviously an important topic.

One place I thought might be a good jumping off point is actually, when you write about

your nine-year-old son's love of cars, you write, quote, he is a temple builder, all

men are meant to be.

And I think it's a good place to start because you do write a lot about the sort of the

purpose of man as temple building in the book.

It's kind of a central theme.

So I wanted to see if you could tell us a little bit more about what you mean, especially

for folks who haven't read the book.

When you say, all men are meant to be temple builders.

Yeah, it's a man's job to make the world better, to make it more beautiful, to make it

more productive, to make it into something that is beautiful.

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