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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday, May 16, 2022.

I'm John Butler where it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald. Hi, John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John.

An associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. I want to thank you guys for

soldiering on in my absence last week as many of you know my my mother who wrote under the

name Mitch Dechter passed away. We go today very peacefully to Muncheye for 95th birthday

and I just wanted to take a moment to thank everybody for the innumerable notes of condolence

and the expressions of goodwill and and and high feeling and the outpouring of not only sympathy

for me and my father and my sisters and our children and and my mother's grandchildren and

great grandchildren. But also the kind of proper and I think really moving respect that people

paid to her legacy as a writer as a thinker as an activist as a mentor as a kind of a

genius, gregarious kind and friendly presence who is always there for people she barely

knew to give them advice to give them counsel to be to represent to them the kind of life

in letters and in politics that you could have particularly if you were a woman but not

just if you were a woman I remember my mother saying to my my sister Ruthie when Ruthie was

expressing some frustration as a relatively young mother of four that she you know saw these people

who were having whose careers were sort of on the fast track and there she was you know raising

for kids in an apartment in Jerusalem and she was working but didn't feel like she was getting

anywhere and she felt so let's say she felt as though she were unequal to my my mother's record

as a woman with children who had a career who wrote published books and friends of hers and

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