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I think it was Better Homes and Gardens. I can see the cover right now. It's red and white. It's like a checkerboard tablecloth cover.

I'm working on a novel right now called American Hogwan, H-A-G-W-O-N which is the Korean word for private tutoring academy.

So calcification, and I should say this is true for both calcification and parody. It comes from a new book by John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, and Krista Sanovic. Called The Bitter End, I believe.

only two people came to my author signing yesterday.

They have read over 300 books, including The Maze Runner of Mice and Men and Harry Potter, and have invited many guest authors to speak at their meetings.

You remember I wrote a couple books Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

I wrote a book 20 years ago that was called The Conquerors that was on among other things, Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust and what he did or did not do.

And now she's out with a new book called Dinners with Ruth, a memoir on the power of friendships. It's about her relationship with the justice and the other friendships that shaped her life and trailblazing career in journalism.

Congratulations on the book, which is why we're here. Dinners with Ruth, a memoir on the power of friendships.

So for people who don't know the arc of your friendship with the Ruth of Dinners with Ruth, you first got to know her almost or more than 50 years ago before she was a household name and before you were a household name.

And, you know, she actually had a case in front of the Supreme Court. And I talk about this in the book at the same time that Roe was there.

I think that they're in an impossible position because after all they're a separate branch of government they don't want the FBI prying into their business and questioning their clerks so I know that a lot of the law clerks lawyered up because they didn't know how this investigation was going to be conducted whether all of their telephone material telephones would have to be dumped etc. and you can reach erroneous conclusions that way but just remember this I talk to a lot of people who do leak investigations at the Justice Department and I ask and they said it's the most thankless task it's always impossible really very difficult so something very valuable is some piece of information is compromised it's referred to DOJ only three or four people were in the room and they said well who else knew well what about so and so pretty soon it's a cast of 50 then it's a cast of 100 now add to that fact the fact that this happened at a time when people were largely still not entirely working at the court so law clerks very often live in group homes there are three or four of them live together in a shared house in a shared hotel and they're working at home and other people come into that house and the same is true of justices they're all working at home their spouses are working at home their children if they have any are working at home it exponentially gets bigger and bigger as you think about it right but I know who knows the political reporter and the political reporter who's going to have a criminal investigation but that's pretty hard there's no law here it was broken yeah do you think it was Ginny Thomas the record will reflect you took a sip of water you can ask the question but I have no basis upon which to answer I have no basis upon which to answer

George Lakehold's famous book, Don't Think of an Elephant.

It's called In Congress We Trust, Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era.

And it does almost a historical survey of how Congress has weighed in on voting and elections since the founding era and how at least by the time we get to reconstruction, Congress has taken an outsized role in the regulation of federal elections.

And I think that this really lays a foundation for understanding Congress's power over elections today.

So I'm hoping to shift the narrative away from the courts, right? Because we focus on the court. We're afraid of what the Supreme Court will do, but we don't talk enough about what Congress can do to protect the right to vote.

I wrote a book a couple of years ago about the troubles in Northern Ireland called Say Nothing, which was very much a study in moral ambiguity.

Keefe has just published an essay collection that features some of his most acclaimed New Yorker pieces. It's called Rogues, true stories of grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks.

So I'm excited to talk to you. I've been excited for a while. You've written a lot of great things and many of the great things you've written are now in a book called Rogues. True stories of grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks.

Somebody in a review of your book Rogues In writing about your account of Amy Bishop said the need to make sense of Bishops unraveling becomes a moral imperative for Keith And I read that I wondered if that was actually true. Is is there a moral imperative in this work for you? Or are you merely curious and is that better or worse?

And so we read that book. It was brought to me by the directors of this documentary and and I think what I loved about the title was that it really helped explain Another thing that people don't know about Rosa Parks, which was she had a very rebellious life I mean she was kind of your classic badass lady

I was surprised that No one had done a doc on Rosa Parks. I Literally, isn't that crazy?

It's just a nice easier story and it makes a lot of white people very comfortable when it's just a little old lady whose hair Was in a bun who was a secretary who just one day was tired

There's a chunk in the dock where she Someone is telling the story about Rosa Parks forgetting to serve dinner at a meeting that they're having and the person says, you know There were so many guns on the table because she made people take the guns off their holsters and put them on the table So many guns on the table that she forgot that to put out the food and you're like Rosa Park No, no Rosa Park like she's a little old lady with her hair in the bun who was too tired

I think there's a benefit, you know when when she was awarded by President Bush Again, I think it's a very easy person to say we support civil rights when it's packaged like this Look how easy it is. She's just a sweet little old lady on threatening.

And I write about this in my book at some length, that on the one hand, the Department of Justice wants to be very careful, not give things away, not give a preview of the evidence, not prejudice anyone, make sure that everyone has a fair trial if there's going to be a trial at some point.

I think you make great points in your book. You know, I actually wrote a Yale Law Review essay on this topic of DOJ transparency, but only about three people have read it, unlike your book.

I'm working on a novel right now called American hog one H a G W o n which is the Korean word for private tutoring Academy and the central subject of my novel is education and one of the most important issues For the Asian American community as well as for Korean Americans and Koreans in particular around the world is education.

I found this book excellent. I think your analysis is always very good.

It's a deep dive on the pandemic, climate change and the revolution in artificial intelligence.

His latest is The Power of Crisis, how three threats and our response will change the world.

The subtitle of your book is about three threats.

The U.S.-China relationship is getting worse. And while the United States is by far the most politically dysfunctional and divided of the world's advanced democracies, China is by far the most cohesive and functional of the world's major authoritarian regimes.