my name is jonathan weisman. you probably know that. you bought your tickets or you came here, made your way after last week's snow day. but i say my name because it has sop meaning that i never -- some meaning that i never really thought thought about. it sounds jewish. [laughter] for most of my life, i didn't think very much about that, that i had a jewish-sounding name. i grew up in a moderately jewish household in atlanta. i grew up in a very reformed synagogue. i was bar miss9 v.a.d -- bar miss sad after the -- [inaudible] i thought it was normal that my -- had an electric arc, that the door came down and the lights came on. and we also had a christian choir that was ensconced behind curtains so it would sound that much more angelic. i went off to chicago for college, and the only interaction i ever had with hillal at northwestern was an argument my senior year with the rabbi over the two-state solution versus the canton solution. i'm not going to go over that right now because, as i say in my book, i think jews in the united state

tonight we have jonathan weisman who is the congressional editor and deputy washington editor at the new york times. his previous novel is called "number 4 imperial lane," and the book we're speaking about tonight is "semitism: being screw in the age of trump." -- being jewish in the age of