thank you, yuval. thank you paul for coming in and thank you all for attending a thank you to aei for providing me a home where i could write this book, which has been many years in the making. and finally when yuval came to me and said you have to write the book. he was able to help me come to aei where i could write it. so i think the book began in a few ways. first is that i have an unusual habit. i love reading old journalism. and when i started as a political writer in washington 20 years ago my hobby was reading through the archives of the magazine why work at the time, "the weekly standard." and then moving from there to the archives of "national review", the "american spectator", "commentary" magazine, all these little magazines on the american right. and from that it was an education not only in the history of the right but also broader education of history of american politics and culture really for the last half-century. that's something i been doing in my spare time for two decades now. how

uh, as the israeli historian said, uh, yuval harari, beauty is in the eyes looking into in the eightiethhis initiative , creative academic workshops of the academy of arts were opened in minsk, and he was their leader, and then they began to be called the creative academic workshops of painting, drawing and culture of the ministry of culture. it's been since the nineties. it turns out that he led or 30 years? i've been a creative workshop of the academy of arts for a year now. the most capable graduates of an art institute enter this creative workshop. the fact is that within the walls of the university, although they receive a diploma, they are still far from in order to become an artist. we first met him, then when well, as before, i knew met. well, when the question arose directly and there was a search on his part, since five people was the first set of his creative workshop and, of course. everyone wanted this period. yes, i was just finishing the academy of the monumental department. well, of course, my candidacy was also proposed by the composition of the creative workshops of mik