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He's the co-author of the forthcoming book, The Genius of Israel, the surprising resilience of a divided nation in a turbulent world, set for release on November 7th.

Dahlia Lithwick writes about the court and the law for Slate, where she's a senior editor. She also hosts the award-winning legal podcast, Amicus, and she's the author of the New York Times bestseller, Lady Justice, Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.

So in 1951, of course, William F. Buckley Jr. writes God and Man at Yale, the Superstitions of Academic Freedom, in which he says, listen, we got to stop trying to persuade voters based on arguments for why the New Deal is a bad thing.

In 1951, of course, William F. Buckley Jr. writes God and Man at Yale, the Superstitions of Academic Freedom, in which he says, listen, we got to stop trying to persuade voters based on arguments for why the New Deal is a bad thing.

But he didn't write that. That was written by L. Brent Buzell.

And L. Brent Buzell, of course, is the close friend and brother-in-law of William F. Buckley Jr., who is in 1955 is going to start national review on the heels of the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education decision.

I think if you look at this is really kind of in the weeds, but I think if you look at Bazell's Conscience of a Conservative that gets published in 1960 over Barry Goldwater's name, I think you can see he had the conservative manifesto in front of him.

One is that Trump was not the favorite of church-going Republicans during the primary process.

Yeah, that one's garbage. Trump won everybody. He won every attendance level, except those who attended more than once a week. And he only lost by six points to Cruz. So...

But in the primary, when I think it was reliably reported that at prior times in his life, Trump was actually pro-choice, he had given to Democrats. What was the basis on which evangelicals and deeply religious people trusted Trump back then?

Yeah, that's actually another myth in the book, is that evangelicals think abortion is like the number one issue for them politically.

If you ask them, they even tell you that it's not. Like only 25% of white evangelicals say abortion is a deal breaker for them as a candidate. Like they would only vote for a candidate who is anti-abortion. So it's not a deal breaker.

I haven't seen the movie, but I know the wonderful book by my friend and colleague, Evan Thomas called Road to Surrender,

Because actually I don't think the impulse to a spiritual life and science are at all incompatible.

I have a book coming out in the near future called The Little Book of Aliens, which is a great title.

It sounds a little bit like a little shop of horrors. It's exactly a little Broadway musical.

first of all there's this show called the expanse, which is based on some books, which I don't know if you've seen, but I recommend it.

And we have a book coming out in next year in the winter, me and a philosopher and another physicist called The Blind Spot, where we try and unpack these views.

He has reported on the Gilgo Beach case from the beginning and is author of the 2013 book, Lost Girls, an Unsolved American Mystery. It examines the victims and the ensuing investigation in the years following their murders.

You speak of your book, which was a powerful description of what was an unsolved crime.

But I always thought from the very beginning that Lost Girls was meant to interrogate some of the assumptions that true crime books make, to try to steer away from the monster movie and get to the other mystery of what made these people so vulnerable and who they were as people.

Certainly there's a lot of tragedy in the lives of these five women even before they disappeared in Long Island.

And I did not want to do a sociology book that got to their pathology and their traumas. I wanted to understand them as people and understand why so many people didn't want to do the same.

in my book Dare to Speak defending free speech for All i've set out 20 principles for how to make this work and it includes Principles for when you're speaking when you're listening and when you're thinking about free speech debates and policy issues

like for example gender queer or uh, all boys are blue Can be lifesavers for certain kids kids who are outliers whose identity? Uh is not accepted in their societies. They pick up a book like this and they can Suddenly see that there's somebody like them that there's a way forward and that's why those books were written

A theme of your book, and other people have made the same point, but I wonder how you explain this. A theme of your book is that champions are made not born.

What I really wanted to do with the book was explain to people what the method is behind what looks like inspiration or intuition.

What sports teach us about work and life

Really, I think one of the reasons I wanted to write the book was because I've known for years now, it's been a very nagging thought that there's something much deeper going on on the field than just physical greatness.

The superstars are very clear in their methods. That's one reason why I focused on them because they actually are really, really intentional and they explain their methods better than most people.

And then as they get older, you start to hear this sort of stereotypic man-up language.

So you start to hear things like, it's hard to find, you know, basically, it's hard to find friendships and I don't want them anymore.

You know, that basically I don't need them. It's okay, whatever.

And their language becomes much more, uh, both either sort of depressed, um, and you hear a sadness in their interviews.

Or it becomes this sort of, I don't care, whatever, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

I've also read all of HER books, um, to, and some of them talk about HER time tHERe.

How does this book, which is chock full of what Mr. Pomerantz calls an insider account, how does it not disclose mental impressions, deliberations at the office, the internal workings of the district attorney's office?

And she was very focused on the fact that Mark wrote a book in which he talked about various things including, as she put it, deliberations that occurred within the Manhattan DA's office.

So the waiver question probably does not favor the Pomerantz and Alvin Bragg view that he doesn't need to testify.

the DA's office didn't take aggressive action with respect to the book in timely fashion.

Why do they care so much now?

I put it in a book. If people want to buy the book, it was called Confidence, man.

You wrote last November that Ronald Lauder was no longer backing his friend of decades, Donald Trump.

I think that they assume that Biden is the nominee and, and, uh, and they like their chances against him, whether they should or shouldn't, they'd like their chances against him.

I think that, uh, you know, he gets dinged a lot, you know, with reason for, for his work ethic, but he actually outworked Clinton, um, in, in 2016.

And so he had just been branded as this, as this success story for so long that it was an impenetrable artifice.