Join me today as the Milbank Family Center Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at

Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, where

he also served as a professor of history for 12 years, as well as the author of 14 books.

Neil Ferguson, welcome to the Ruben Report.

It's exciting to be here.

How'd I do on the intro there?

I was looking through your bio.

Fourteen books.

There were 87 other things I could have credited you for.

We've already done an interview here in just the 15 minutes we've been sitting here.

Was that all right?

I mean, I could have just made a quick turn.

Yeah, I think it's shorter the better as my feeling about introductions.

Just as said, here's Neil.

Here's Neil.

All right.

There's a ton we got to cover here, and we've already done half of it, I think, without

the cameras.

So let's just dive in immediately to the culture war stuff, because I can tell you've

been traveling a lot, half jet lags, half wide awake.

But I can see that's really where your head's at at the moment.

So let's talk some culture war stuff.

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