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Years ago, Radek Sikorski was the chief foreign correspondent of National Review. Later, he was a major politician and statesman in Poland: first the defense minister, then the foreign minister.

With Jay, he talks about some of the most important issues facing Europe and the world: NATO, the EU, the Kremlin, the United States, and so on. He is a man of immense learning and experience, as you will see.

He is also a first-rate conversationalist. Which makes him a valued guest of "Q&A." 

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Alexandra DeSanctis is a colleague of Jay's at National Review. A recent graduate of Notre Dame, she is a William F. Buckley fellow at NRI (the National Review Institute). She is especially knowledgeable about the "life" issues. About abortion in particular. Also, she has been on the beat of Planned Parenthood, doggedly. She and Jay talk about that organization, and about abortion, etc.

"Is this dinner-table conversation?" Jay asks at the end. Is abortion a topic for polite company? For a podcast? In any event, it's an important one. Both Jay and his guest are pro-life, or anti-abortion, if you like. (Jay will even accept "anti-choice," on the subject of abortion.) But perhaps even the other side will be interested in what they have to say. To "know where they're coming from," as was said, once upon a time.

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Ildar Dadin is a political prisoner in Russia. He has the unwelcome distinction of being the first person imprisoned under an onerous new law: a law that effectively bans protests of the government without permission from that same government.

Dadin has been tortured. He feared that he would be killed. Just recently, he was transferred from one prison, in Karelia, near Finland, to another, in Siberia, near the Kazakh border. The good news is: Ildar Dadin is alive and well, after all he has been through.

What he will face in coming days, weeks, and months, no one can know.

Jay wrote about the Dadin case here. And now, in this "Q&A," he talks with the woman defending Dadin, trying to protect him, trying to spread the word about him: his wife, Anastasia Zotova. She is an amazingly brave woman, under great pressures. She tells us many interesting things, not only about her man and her marriage, but also about Russia today.

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Piotr Anderszewski is one of the leading pianists in the world. He paid a visit to New York, where Jay caught up with him in the offices of the Steinway company (in the Lady Gaga conference room, specifically). (Really.) Anderszewski has recently returned to concert life from a short sabbatical. During this sabbatical, he made a film about Warsaw. He and Jay talk about this and many other issues, concerning music and not. A distinctive personality, Anderszewski.

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The Venezuelan situation is hard to believe: hunger, violence, a reversion to the primitive. Yet there is beauty there too, and human goodness.

Hannah Dreier is on the scene for the Associated Press. And, once again, she is Jay's guest on "Q&A." They talk about parents who give their children away, or even kill them. And people who rob and murder with impunity.

You need to have "bricks of cash," says Dreier, if you want to buy anything - stacks of cash, for inflation is sky-high. The military has been put in charge of food - the better to prevent a military rebellion. Schools cannot proceed in any normal way.

Etc., etc.

As Jay says, Hannah Dreier is one of the most important journalists in the world now, and she is certainly one of the bravest. This latest conversation is eye-opening.

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