thank you to the cato institute, and thank you to rick sander and stuart taylor for writing this wonderful book. i'm going to begin by heaping praise on rick and stuart for this book. it's terrific, makes an extremely important contribution to the debate on these issues. i think an unprecedented contribution in many ways. i've read the book, and it's very readable, it's got lots of charts and die glams for those -- diagrams for those of you who like that sort of thing, and it's very well written. everybody should buy multiple copies. [laughter] give them to friends and family, people you know, people you don't know. it's a terrific book. and i should also say something about what terrific people the authors are. you know, it's, you know, you've got to be smart to write a really good book, but this area you also have to be brave. and particularly, i think more so for them to write a book like this than for me, i have few friends anyway -- [laughter] and i don't, you know, pal around with, you know, reporters and academics and people like that very much. rick is an academic. stuart does pal

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