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Hey there, folks. I am very excited to have, as my guest, in the studio under the Lewis

Comfort Tiffany skylight window.

Roger Kimball, who's the editor and publisher of the new Criterion, president-publisher of Encounter Books.

Roger, welcome.

Thank you.

You're a fellow New Yorker.

Kind of.

I live in Connecticut, but I work here. Close enough. It's the wider, it's a fellow New Yorker. Kind of. I live in Connecticut, but I work here.

Close enough.

It's the wider, it's the greater New York area.

The greater New York, yes.

I live in a high tax area.

Yeah, well, that's the, yeah, that's always the, well, I guess I want to talk to you

about so much, but I want to start with the new criterion, which, how many years has that been, you know?

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