Peter. Michael. What do you know about a book called God and Man at Yale? The two things liberals hate the most. God and men.

So God and man at Yale is a 1951 unexpected runaway bestseller by William F. Buckley. Peter, what do you know about William F. Buckley? The distances that a weird little

mid-Atlantic accent could take you in the 1950s, man. Incredible. The Godfather of modern conservatism, you know, he's the founder of National Review, the man who married the weird establishment Republicans with the segregationists.

I read a couple biographies of him and they're like, he comes from a family of star cross lovers. His father was old money and his mother was new money.

So what do you know about this actual book? Not much actually. Buckley goes to Yale and it's a little too communist for him or something. And so he's like, I'm going to write a book about it. And he does as like a 24 year old or whatever.

That was like remarkably accurate and succinct, Peter. I've got my finger on the pulse. He just like sits down immediately after graduating.

And he's like, right, this entire book basically just like complaining and relitigating every single fight that he had on campus. He was the editor of the Yale Daily News.

And he's like, you know what? Everything I wrote an op-ed about while I was there. I'm just going to write a fucking book about it. That's the whole book.

That is the dream, right? To go to school and have a nemesis and then write a book being like Janice failed sociology.

There's a part where he talks about like an interface conference. And he's like, the conference was organized by and then he gives the person's actual name and then he just moans about how like the panels were boring.

Like, oh, you're just like, you're just, you went to a weekend conference that sucked and you want to tell me about that.

But literally, like, that's the level, like, that's the level of depth that this book gets basically in the level of depth of this episode.

I'm excited.

So the obvious thing to say about God and Man at Yale and really the only aspect of this book that is remotely interesting is the extent to which it's set the template for all of the campus panic best sellers that we've had since then.

So this is, it's essentially like a genre of conservative right at this point.

Right. We've had Alan Blooms, the closing of the American mind, Danish D'Souza's, a liberal education, Roger Kimbles, 10-year radicals.

Charlie Sykes has a book called a prof scam, which isn't even a word and something like that.

This is just something that conservatives do.

Yeah. One of it's one of their central complaints that our precious beautiful children are going off to college and then they meet old communists.

Yes.

And they get convinced that minorities deserve rights.

Yeah. You start teaching conservative kids about history and philosophy and pretty soon they'll have a second joke.

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