We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

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Today I could not possibly be more excited about our guests because it's playwright David

Mammoth, the one and only David Mammoth who's out with a new essay collection.

It's called The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch.

David, thank you so much for joining us.

You're welcome.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Actually, the actual title, apparently nobody could write a book anymore without a colon

after the title and a bunch of bumps.

It's actually called Recessional.

That's right.

The Death of Free Speech, which is a homage to a wonderful poem by that name by Mr.

Reddured Kipling.

It's great that I made that mistake because a lot of this book is about the failures

in journalism.

So I've queued it up nice.

I teed up the conversation nicely about how journalists are these days by it was actually

covered up by my headphone cord.

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