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Our guest today is historian Thomas Beckett Kane, author of the forthcoming book, Interesting

Deepdive look into the COVID era.

It's called The Reckoning, a definitive history of the COVID-19 pandemic and other absurdities.

Thomas, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me on.

I said as we were talking before we started broadcasting here, that this is a timely book.

And I mean that because while the COVID outbreak was more than five years ago, you know, this still resonates today. And your book

really delves into that. The consequences of the mass hysteria, the lockdowns, you know, the

government policies, the takeover by the bureaucratic health system within the

government and without the ripple effects still resonate to this day, do they not?

Exactly, exactly.

And it's interesting because when someone sees that there's a book about COVID, they probably

think to themselves,

oh, well, I live through it, right? And then why should I care? I understood what happened and all of that. But I see it in a much broader context. I see it as representing not only a

turning point in our democracy, but really symptomatic of a broader downward trend into sort of this abandonment of rationality and logic and how we descended into the state of madness.

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