Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. I am so excited about today because we're going to be talking about a book that was written between Cornell West and Robert P. George.

This is right now, this is at a time when 65% of Americans say political divisions pose a major threat to democracy.

And I think that they think because of that, we really can't have conversations.

But here you have two of America's most influential thought leaders who, one is a progressive

champion, Cornell West.

The other is a prominent conservative, and that's Robert P. George.

And they write this book together called Truth Matters,

a dialogue on fruitful disagreement in the aid in an age of division. And I'm reading through this at the beginning,

and I'm thinking, man, they're talking about how they met and how they decided to do a class together

and how this friendship kind of bloomed. And I thought, I'd love to have been in that first conversation.

And then I realized that this book is actually their conversation.

And so I'm so pleased today we have Cornell West and Robert P. George with us.

Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Well, thank you, Tudor.

It's such a pleasure to be back with you.

And always such a joy to be with my dear brother Cornell.

No, indeed, indeed. Thank you for having us.

Absolutely. So I was reading through and I see that this all started with the university really saying,

hey, we want to actually, I think it was students who were doing a new student magazine.

So we want one professor to interview another.

And that was how this friendship blossomed.

Is that right?

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