It was written to warn children about the dangers of communism; it uses an island setting and characters like sheep and wolves to illustrate a story about a tempting but ultimately harmful offer of 'free ice cream'. The book is part of a series with a shared universe concept.
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I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is a former Navy Intelligence Officer, the senior editor at Human Events and the author of The New Children's Book. I've got it right in my hand right now. The island of free ice cream, Jack Posobiec, welcome to The Rubin Report.
So it's like Ashley St. Clair and Elizabeth Johnston and there's some other big names. Actually I think they just announced it so I can say this now that Dan Crenshaw is going to be the next one coming out with a book.
And when you walk into one of these commercial bookstores lately, books Millian Barnes and Noble, I swear it's like the first book I see it's always this table that set out and it's children's books and every single one of the authors their last names is either Biden, Obama, Clinton or Harris, right, Mina Harris, Denise.
So the right has been playing in this game or not even just the right but people who just believe in traditional values, basic American values totally seeded this space, just totally seeded this space and said, Oh, it'll correct itself, it's self correcting. Don't worry, this isn't some big thing. Guess what folks? It is.
And it's actually got. And this is the one thing I said to them. I was like, look, I don't want to do one of those big, preachy things where it's some story and then all of a sudden, you know, Jack Pasobic walks over and is like, well, kids, let's talk today about the virtues of the free market and Milton Friedman and I ran it like, no, no, no, no. Like I don't want to do that stuff.