Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Sexton show on this episode.

Mark Hemingway is with us of real clear investigations.

He's also an editor at the Federalist and the husband of the formidable Molly Hemingway,

who is a fantastic author and writer in her own right.

Mr. Mark, how are you doing, sir?

How is America?

You know, America's hanging on, but yeah, I'm doing all right.

You know, one thing that I know you get very focused in on is all the school stuff.

You've been on the board of a classical school for nearly 18 years.

I want you to tell me about that, but then I also want to ask about,

you may have seen Biden is saying that it's cruel now to prevent gender transition surgery for kids.

That's it's cruel to stop kids from getting surgery that is going to almost certainly ruin their

lives, but anyway, we'll get to that.

First, tell me, what is this classical school you've been on the board of for almost 20 years?

Yeah, my church has had a school in some form or another for, you know,

nearly 100 years, like a lot of different churches.

But, you know, like I think a religious education in this country kind of suffered an identity

crisis in the, you know, in the sort of the late 20th century.

And, you know, our school had gotten very small.

We were deciding what to do with it and, you know, the school population had gotten so low,

like do we close the school or something?

So what we did, and this was, you know, gosh, 18, 20 years ago now, we basically doubled

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