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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

this is Potomac Watch.

Welcome, everyone.

I'm Paul Gego Editor of the editorial page

of the Wall Street Journal and host of Potomac Watch podcast here.

And today we have a special visitor, Thomas Sol,

the influential author and thinker.

Thomas Sol was born in Gastonia, North Carolina

in the segregated American South.

Decades go raised in Harlem and New York City

served in the Marines during the Korean War.

Then went to Howard University and later Harvard

and the University of Chicago.

And he's gone on to a distinguished academic

and publishing career.

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