Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Thaddeus

McCatter, American Greatness, writing his column most recently about surprising developments

at the Department of State and the Biden administration. This is Anthony Blanket, Secretary of State,

and we have a quote here online from a young woman named Zakia Carr Johnson who's job is Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

C. D. I.O. at the Department of State. The quote is unusual. Because we live and work within

systems so deeply rooted in patriarchy and colonialism and racism and

otherism, we tend to be very resistant to shifts and changes.

It's very uncomfortable for many colleagues.

A culture of misogyny has allowed men to act without consequence, and it becomes part of what we believe is normal, right?

In order to make any change, we've literally got to be about the work of dismantling that traditional

structure at every juncture.

That is a very good evening to you.

I read this before but I just read it out loud and I'm less confident now than when I started as to what Ms Johnson is

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