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Perry Link is one of the great China scholars of today. There have been two sides to his career: He is an expert on Chinese literature and language; and he has been a boon to Chinese dissidents. With Jay, he talks about Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel laureate and political prisoner, who died last week. And about other dissidents. And about various aspects of today's China, and its relation to the West.

By the way, Jay mentions Professor Link's famous essay "The Anaconda in the Chandelier," which can be found here.

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Throwing rules to the wind, Jay does a music program: a half-hour of music about summer, or related to summer. We'll hear Mendelssohn, Webern, Barber, and others. There's a girl named Jeannie involved, too (with light brown hair). This "Q&A," or non-"Q&A," is a midsummer night's gift.

The playlist for this show may be viewed here.

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Frank Lavin has had a busy and interesting life. He worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He was ambassador to Singapore. He is a robust free-trader. He is now a businessman. And he is the author of a book about his father: "Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II."

Jay picks his brain about an assortment of things, and Lavin's brain is eminently pickable. A conversation about Reagan, Singapore, Japan, China, trade, the Republican party, the Greatest Generation, the American future, and more.

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David Satter is an American authority on Russia - a man who cares so much about Russia and the Russian people that he bothers to understand them. And to tell the truth about them, as he knows it. Speaking of knowing: His latest book is "The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep."

With Jay, he talks about Putin, the diaspora, democracy, Trump, Stalin, literature, and a lot more. An experienced, learned, and bold scholar and journalist. He says that Westerners have misunderstood Russia for years - they think the rest of the world is like them. Satter, for one, avoids that mistake.

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John J. Pitney Jr. is a famous conservative professor of political science. He works at Claremont McKenna College, in California. Jay asks him about California - is there any gold left in it?

He also asks Pitney about his upbringing and education. And about his conservatism. How did he get that way? Well, at 13, he started reading National Review and corresponding with William F. Buckley Jr.

What about life on campus? Are students teachable, or are they aflame with ideology? What about the current GOP (which Pitney has left, after a lifetime)?

Jay further asks Pitney about his work on "the politics of autism." And about his political heroes. And more. ("Whaddaya read, to keep informed?")

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