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Subscribe to continue listening to great conversations with today's most interesting and insightful thinkers and authors. Christopher Scalia is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, an editor of two books on faith,

lessons from an American believer, and Scalia speaks, reflections on law, faith, and life, well-lived.

He's authored a new book, 13 novels, Conservatives Will Love, but probably haven't read.

That's our topic today.

Welcome, Dr. Scalia, you do have a doctorate in English from UW in Madison.

I'm not too persnickety about the title, but thanks, Mark. It's great to talk to you again.

Sure. I'll be on shows. They'll ask me, you know, persnickety about the title but thanks mark it's great to talk to you again that's sure uh i'll

be on shows of the they'll ask me you know how they should say and i say hey professor dr bowerline

if you please but okay so uh first you note in your introduction before getting into the books and

you got 13 books here we'll we'll get to the meet.

But you note that in certain conservative circles,

whenever novels come up, the conversation tends to be pretty predictable

in terms of the topics.

We've got in 1984, we've got Kara Matsov and others.

But as you say in your introduction, they aren't here in this book.

Why focus on good ones that conservatives haven't read?

I think it's good that conservatives have a reliable bookshelf already.

They have this kind of common vocabulary and set of stories and characters they can refer to.

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