Hello everybody this is Victor Davis Hansen and Jack Fowler and Sammy Wink are not with me today as we they are often not when we have distinguished guests and we we do have one today, and he's Benedict Beckold.

And we're going to discuss a lot of his work.

He's a philosopher, historian of ideas, and he's going to correct me if I'm wrong.

Born Swedish, I have some affinity for that because my family,

three, four generations on my father's side ago came from loom

Sweden and helped found a little Swedish community here called Kingsburg as

some of you know, my great grandfather, Nell's Hanson and Frank

Hansen, his son came into the 19th century and then we're going and then he was educated in Germany.

He's now back and he's in New York.

I don't know how people like that

when their native language is Swedish can speak fluent English

better than most Americans and then we're educated in the German University.

I suggest or probably have an idea that that's not the limit of his foreign languages.

But anyway, he's here because he wrote a wonderful book about Western self-doubt, and he used the term eicophobia, which is Greek for the hatred or fear of your own house or yourself or your culture,

and it's about the decline in civilization, Western civilization.

And so Benek, thank you so much for coming. I'm so glad we can have you here.

Tell us a little bit what oikophobia is in your view

and how you came upon the idea

and what's the danger of it

as it confronts the West.

Yeah, so thank you so much for having me.

First of all, I followed your work for a long time, so it's a pleasure to speak with you directly

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