This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://andrewsullivan.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">andrewsullivan.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>Matt is an author, pollster, campaigner, and policy advisor. He recently ran for Parliament as a Reform candidate and came in second. He’s also a presenter at GB News and a writer on Substack. He’s the author of many books, including <em>National Populism</em> and <em>Values, Voice and Virtue,</em> and his new book is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Nation-Immigration-Islam-Identity/dp/1919401407"><em>Suicide of a Nation</em></a><em>: Immigration, Islam, Identity</em>.</p><p>For two clips of our convo — on the flood of non-white migrants to the UK, and how accusations of racism shape the migration debate — head to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/DailyDishHosting/videos">our YouTube page</a>.</p><p>Other topics: born in Hertfordshire to working-class parents who divorced young and worked for the NHS; addiction in the family; his terrible time at an all-boys school; the first in his family to go to college; Burke and Oakeshott; a semester abroad in downtown Detroit; the losers of globalization; being a conservative in academia; thehounding of Kathleen Stock; Douglas Murray; Charles Murray; the falling popularity of liberal democracy; David Cameron; the migration crisis; Brexit; the Red Wall swinging to the right; Nigel Farage and Euroskepticism; plunging fertility rates; Roger Scruton; Lasch and Burnham; the betrayal of Boris on migration; the rapid influx of Muslims to the UK; assimilation in the US; the disappearance of a shared national memory; the illiberalism of Islamic Brits; same-sex marriage; wokeness; anti-speech laws in the UK; the Iraq War; and the new war in Iran.</p><p>Browse the <a target="_blank" href="https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dishcast-archive-70-episodes">Dishcast archive</a> for an episode you might enjoy. Coming up: Jonah Goldberg on the state of conservatism, Jeffrey Toobin on the pardon power, Derek Thompson on abundance, Tom Holland on the Christian roots of liberalism, Tiffany Jenkins on privacy in a liberal democracy, Adrian Wooldridge on “the lost genius of liberalism,” and Tom Junod on his memoir and masculinity. As always, please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to <strong>[email protected]</strong>.</p>