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My guest today is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, the bestselling author of books including 'Infidel', 'Heretic', and 'Prey', and also the founder and editor of Restoration, a new publication which seeks to rebuild the West's broken institutions.

We spoke about why Ayaan was so thrilled at Trump's victory, the intellectual origins of wokeness, why young men are reacting against it, and our shared fears for the future of Europe.

02:26 Trump’s America
06:00 DOGE revelations
10:21 Margaret Thatcher’s response to Salman Rushdie
15:00 Pathological xenophilia
19:17 Polling on young people and patriotism
21:02 Male tilt towards the right
25:55 Women - the morality of the kindergarten teacher
30:00 Women rejecting wokeness

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