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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast.

This is an election year.

Will Donald Trump be re-elected?

What is going on with the Democrats?

And has America gone even more crazy?

We'll be discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week,

because we don't feel you have enough Americano in your life.

I'm joined today by Jeff Finn Paul, who is Associate Professor in History at Leiden University.

And we're going to be talking about his piece in this week's spectator,

which was called The Myth of the Stolen Country. Now, Jeff, in this, I spectator, which was called the myth of the stolen country.

Now, Jeff, in this, I think, extraordinary piece, you attack the notion that has become prevalent,

almost ubiquitous in the English-speaking world, that the new world, the Americas,

were stolen, and that is sort of the founding of America and Canada based on an act of monumental genocide and cruelty, and it's sort of the original

sin of democracy almost.

Sure, yeah.

I'd just like to ask first, I mean, could you tell me about why you came to this conclusion,

what motivated you to write the piece?

Tell us a little bit about that.

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