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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty.

So bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth's last for a thousand years,

men will still say this was their finding fellow.

It's Monday, May 13th, 2024 and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining

social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today.

joined by two or three of our usual good fellows sitting next to me,

the international man of history himself in California for some explained reason.

If you bet Neil be in California, you won the bet.

Congratulations.

Of course, Neil Ferguson.

Sitting the other end of the stage is the economist John Cochran, a California, though he may have not always cop to it.

You may have noticed, by the way, a bit of an unusual setting for us.

We are coming to you live from the newly minted, newly opened George P. Schultz building

here on the campus of Stanford University at the Hoover Institution.

We are without HR McMaster today, but one and only Stephen Cockkin, you've asked for him, you've begged for him, you've nagged us to no end to get them, and now you got him.

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