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Mark is the author of five excellent books, including two number one New York Times bestsellers, this town, and thank you for your servitude.

Baldwin says that America is always changing, but it never changes, you know? So, you know, it's always moving, but then there's something underneath it that is constant.

So one could say, you know, if you hold the belief that white people matter more than others, that belief looks like, it looks like one thing in the context of slavery. It looks like another in the context of Jim Crow and it looks like another in the context of the first black president. Right? But the belief still obtains across those different historical epics. Right? It's still doing work.

So, you know, we're hearing the lie right now. Right? The way in which it's being reasserted in the face of Black Lives Matter and the challenge to the form of policing in the country. We're hearing it in the defense of Confederate monuments, in the defense of our heritage, in the defense of a certain understanding of America's beginnings. That's a reassertion of the lie that bears a family resemblance to what we've been telling ourselves since our founding.

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.

And now all of a sudden, I think a pioneer work about eviction was a book Evicted by a researcher and a professor from Princeton, Matthew Desmond, who, if I have the number right, I think he looked at eviction at a number of different cities across the country and found that at least in one of them, the average cost of, the average amount that somebody was behind in their rent for which necessitated an eviction or eviction proceedings were filed was like 50 bucks.

Bernstein and Woodward would go on to chronicle their search for truth and the end of the Nixon presidency in the bestselling books ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and The Final Days.

There's enough in there to pound Michael Cohn on terrible things he has said about Trump.

You have a new book, The Agenda, How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America.

Ian's most recent book is The Agenda, How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America.

If you want to understand what's happening with the Supreme Court, you should read it, The Agenda, How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America.

And they said, you know what? It sounds an awful lot like another book called Complications, of which you are the author.

And so I picked up your book and, you know, it's a series of stories and sort of meditations on medical cases that you did.

So I just want you to know that was an inspiration to me in the writing of my book.

...he wrote a book audacity of hope was getting a lot of traction...

His most recent book, Trumpocalypse Restoring American Democracy, focuses on how we recover from the last four years.

Before I let you go, I have been remiss and I should let you explain to people why they should buy and read your most recent book, Trumpocalypse, Restoring American Democracy, which came out just last year.

I published two books on the Trump period, Trumpocracy and Trumpocracy.

I doubt that very many people will buy many more copies of these books now that Trump is out of office, but I wish they would at least get them out of the library because a lot of them, a lot about half the content of each book is a meditation on the danger zones of American democracy and things you should do to fix them.

And because he's not a Christian, he's not beholden to Christian values.

And they have turned to someone like Donald Trump to do the dirty work for them.

At one end were the Christians who maintained their dignity while voting for Trump.

People who were clear-eyed in understanding that backing a candidate pragmatically and prudentially, need not lead to unconditionally promoting, empowering, and apologizing for that candidate.

At the opposite end were the Christians who are jettison their credibility.

She's also the author of several books, including most recently Autocracy, Inc., which examines how modern autocracies cooperate to maintain power.

The reason we wrote the book is that we worry about a more competent Trump presidency in the future.

That's Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith. Bob and Jack have both served as top executive branch lawyers.

Bob is White House counsel for President Obama and Jack is the head of the Office of Legal Counsel for President Bush.

After Trump, Reconstructing the Presidency.

It's hard to find two people more knowledgeable about the institution of the presidency and after these past four years they've got some ideas about how to reform it.

Grievance is good.

He did not apologize at that moment. It was like 10 minutes later, 15 minutes later. He did not apologize for having just assaulted Chris Rock, you know, in front of millions of television viewers. He talked about how hard he has it. And there's a line in his speech where he says, you know, nobody kind of understands what you have to... As a celebrity, you have to take all of these people talking about you, and you're supposed to just kind of bear up under it and soldier on. And he's asking for the audience's pity, and he's pitying himself. And he's standing there with a gold Oscar statue as one of the richest and most powerful actors and producers in Hollywood.

And he understood that if he could portray himself not as triumphant, but as wronged, he might get a better reception at this moment in time.

And he's basically been saying that, you know, since 2015, when that first presidential campaign got off the ground. But it became so distilled and clear when I think about a year ago, when he was kind of kicking off this campaign, he used those four words that I think we will be hearing and remembering for a long time, which is, I am your retribution.

He said, we're not going to have a country left if you elect Joe Biden. If you give Democrats unchallenged power, that's the end of America.

Sanger's mesmerizing inside story of a world transformed will inspire and disturb, but as the author makes abundantly clear, no one who lives on this planet can ignore what is happening.

It's at the end of the introduction that I think sums up the Ukraine war when he said, we thought this was going to be a clean cyber war and then we thought it was a World War II tank war. And then it became a blanking World War I trench warfare. And the answer is, it was all three.

I described at the beginning of the book going to Beijing University with Bill Clinton and he gave a speech which I actually believed at that time saying the internet will set you free and will undercut the power of the Communist Party.

And so we overlooked every warning from Vladimir Putin that in fact he had some other priorities and that restoring the lands of Peter the Great, meaning starting with Ukraine was that priority.

The central argument of this book is that for the 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union we deluded ourselves into thinking that the world was moving in the direction of those sets of values.

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

Democracies can't cope with peace, affluence, and progress.

The January 6th rioters were the most extreme example of the stupefying level of narcissism. These insurrectionists were not disenfranchised, or oppressed people trying to engage in a peaceful assembly. Rather, the whole event was a day camp outing for middle-aged, middle-class, gainfully employed Americans who wanted to be heroes storming Congress.

the one thing that the government can't do, this is where I part with my liberal friends, it cannot provide your life a sense of meaning and I think too much of what happens in a democracy that is successful like ours is that we lose a sense of meaning.

the animating, you know, sort of central proposition for people on the left.

I'm the guy who wrote a whole article in The Atlantic calling JD Vance an asshole, literally.