Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. This is the culturalist and we are

part of a three part series with the traditionalist and the classicist that is co-hosted by Jack

Aller. This particular segment is dedicated to events and people past and present that have

really influenced the way we live and we look at events and try to connect them with culture.

Today we're hoping to do that on topics of technology and then maybe a little special on animals

and history. But first let's take a moment for this word from our sponsor. Welcome back and this is

Victor's show. So he's the namesake of the show. He's also the Martin and Ilyander since senior

fellow in history at military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and

Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College and we're really happy to be

here today. How are you doing Victor? Very well Sammy. Yeah I hear you have a publication date for

your book. Is it in delicate or jinx to ask how that book is doing right now? No it's October 5th so it

will be out in a little over a week from now about 10 days and it's doing very well on the pre-sales at

least you can always check it on Amazon but it's not really out yet so people can order it on

Amazon or Barnes and Noble or any of online or area or the bookstores and I think it's very

timely. I wrote the book not at the period right before COVID and during the lockdown and then I

revised it not because of current events but it just happened that way when I was doing the edits

from the general and copy editing then we got into the more acrimonial selections of although that

was not the main part so I have a long epilogue trying to correlate the events after 2021 what the

last six months how they reflect the themes of the book and I think if you're worried about what

you see on the border there's a chapter called residence that suggests that residency not

citizenship is what matters now in America your feet on the ground no matter how you got here and

if you're worried about inflation I have the first chapter is called peasants and that we're

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