Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday March 1st, 2018.

I am John Putthor, it's the editor of the 73 year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,

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monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times year which raises an interesting thing. I read

somewhere something this morning about us news a feature in us news and world report which ceased

publishing its magazine last year so it's now only online except for its college guide or something

and the piece referred to us news and world report as a magazine and I would say I don't think

you can call us it was a world report a magazine anymore if they don't publish a magazine when

we publish a magazine and with me helping me to publish the magazine every day is senior editor

Abe Greenwald hi Abe hi John and associate editor no Rothman hi Noah hi John and senior writer

Sorob Amari hi Sorob good morning John so yes we put out a magazine we put out a website and so

we're still a magazine and we have a website and I just don't think that other things should call

themselves magazines if they don't publish magazines but hey that's just me so yesterday was a

pretty crazy day Noah right I'm still reeling we're all reeling we had the president attacking his

attorney general calling him a disgrace in the morning on Twitter then he brought a bunch of

Democrats and a few Republicans into his office in the afternoon and became the charter member

of handgun control ink and then the communications director resigned and then the New York Times

going to have a story about how Jared Kushner the president's son-in-law and senior advisor

whom we had heard the previous day had lost all of his security clearance his had had meetings

in his office and then his family company had gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in

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