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Welcome everyone. This is the Victor Davis Hansen show.

Victor is an author of 28 books.

The latest one is the Dying Citizen.

He is a columnist for American greatness and his own side, the blade of persias, of course.

He also writes quite a lot of essays for the new criterion, which is a cultural magazine.

So Victor has a plethora of other places and independent places that he writes for as well.

He is also the Martin Inelianterson, senior fellow in military history and classics at the

Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

Today we're going to be looking at the most recent news and some of the things that are going on with

our prisoner swap for Brittany Griner and then also Elon Musk's current dumping of some of

the archival information from Twitter that reveals Twitter's censorship.

But first let's take a moment for some messages and then we'll come right on back to talk to Victor.

Welcome back and Victor, I often ask how you're doing.

I read recently in the news that we've got a slew, a slewie, can I say that? A slewie of

blue viruses coming on as well as the coronavirus. I think maybe we should all be careful

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