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Noah Rothman is the author of a brand new book entitled Blood and Progress,

a century of left-wing violence in America.

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What a pleasure this is to talk to Noah Rothman, senior writer with the National

Review, author of a number of terrific books through the years, and we are big fans of

years around here, Mr. Rothman.

How are you, Noah?

Thank you, sir. I'm very well. It's a pleasure to be here. Excellent. Thanks. So I have dived into the book with great enthusiasm. My compliments, first of all, it's one of those momentum reads. The more I read, the more I was enjoying reading it. And one of the points you made early on in the book,

I should, just as an aside, a fan of your work on the National Review podcast.

And I remember when you first brought up that you were working on this book,

my immediate reaction was, oh, my God, there's going to be an avalanche of what aboutism,

about right-wing violence.

But you made the point early in the book that the way we as media and society react to left-wing violence and right-wing violence are very, very different.

Can we start there?

Of course, sure.

So my book is Blood and Progress, A Century of Left Wing Violence in America, is an attempt to answer a question that I think we all probably encounter too frequently, because we often hear about how the right in America is uniquely violent, the primary threat to the civic compact and individual life and liberty.

We hear about it after an attempted or successful assassination of a

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