Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday, January 11th, 2022.

I am John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald

Hi, Ajahn, senior writer Christine Rosen, Hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

Joining us today in the place of the absent norothman we have friend of the podcast,

AI scholar, editor of national affairs, author of two highly praised books whose names

elude me right now more than two books actually because there's like scholarly books.

I don't know all that he's 12 years old and it's very annoying.

You've all of it and how you ball.

Hi John, good to be here.

Okay, we've got the something republic, the fractured republic and a time to build and

a time to build right, which I got to say maybe not the best title because it's got a

little bit of that like ghost written yeah, standard title.

You know, I have not come up with any titles of my books.

I've always come up with much, much worse titles than they end up having and the publisher

comes up with something and I'm so relieved that it's better than mine that we just

go with that.

Okay, well, come to me.

I'm very good at the title.

So you should come to me and I'll help because that's why I felt comfortable insulting the

title of the time to build a little bit because it did have it as a slightly generic quality.

It's anything but a generic book because of course this is the source.

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