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We have their guests on our program all the time. of weeks ago. I had the honor of receiving an award from City Journal, which is a publication of the

Manhattan Institute. We have their guests on our program all the time. They have an amazing number

of truly wonderful and talented people. The speech that I gave there, I think that it is worth

the listen because it speaks to where we are in our politics right now and the optimism we ought

to have about America going forward. Here's what it sounded like.

Well, first of all, thank you all for coming to my bar mitzvah.

It's obviously an honor to be introduced by Douglas Murray and also a challenge because having to speak after Douglas Murray is always a challenge.

I don't have the malefluous voice,

and his pacing is so much more soothing than my own.

I want to thank, obviously, City Journal,

perhaps the finest intellectual publication in all of America.

I, of course, also want to thank Manhattan Institute, which is a spectacular think think tank to which I myself am becoming a donor because of its important mission.

It's a deeply, deeply important institution in American life, and given all of the chaos

that is now emerging in the think

tank world a significantly more important institution than it ever was.

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