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I hope you enjoy today’s essay on 1981 and 2021.

Today, as usual, I will be doing my live chat with subscribers at 1 p.m. New York time, 10 a.m. Pacific time, and (note the time change here) 5 p.m. London time.

Here is the Zoom link.

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