I'm delighted to report that I have joined as a scholar, the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.

The center offers educational opportunities, speakers, internship, and reading groups for the University of Mississippi community.

It is named in honor of the United States founding document,

which constitutes the nation as a political community

and expresses fundamental principles of American freedom,

including in the recognition of the importance of Judeo-Christian values

in shaping American exceptionalism.

Dedicated to the academic and open-minded exploration of these principles, the Center exists

to encourage exploration into the many facets of freedom. It will sponsor a speaker series

and an interdisciplinary faculty research team. If you'd like to learn more about the center, please visit Ole Miss. That's O-L-E-M-I-S-S-D-U-S-E-D-U-L-E-D-U-D-E-D-E-E-D-E-E-D-U-L-E-E-E-E-L-E. Hi, everybody. This is Got Sad. Today I've got another fantastic guest. I've got Richard Ovenden. I had to prepare

this a priori because there's a lot of pronunciation pitfalls here. You are the director of the

Bodleian libraries at the University of Oxford and a fellow at Balliol College. I'm sure I got that

wrong. You were awarded an OBE, Order of the British Empire,

and you still currently serve as the President of the Digital Preservation Coalition? Is that still?

Yep, yep, that's all correct. Yeah.

Well, first, welcome. How are you doing?

I'm doing well, thank you.

I'm very excited to speak to you now. The way that I found out of your work is I was speaking to the person at Harvard University Press,

and she was kind enough to send me a whole bunch of complementary books.

And I chose yours as one of the ones on my list, which was this beauty, which I read about maybe six months ago,

burning the books, a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge.

Maybe we could start there, and then we can go from there and see how it goes.

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