The Revolution eats its own.

We have seen this throughout history. We've seen it in the 20th century with the communists.

We might be seeing it around us today and we are certainly seeing it in today's book.

Darkness at noon by Arthur Kessler.

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at noon and I will be joined by my guest C. Bradley Thompson, Professor of Political Science at Clemson University,

executive director of the Clemson Institute for the study of capitalism,

something that the comedies in this book really would not have liked very much.

Brad, thank you for being here.

Michael, great to be with you.

This is one of my favorite 20th century novels, if not my single favorite 20th century novel.

It's so good and so few people read it. I only read it for the first time maybe a couple

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