Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for Thursday, December 19th, 2019.

I'm John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary magazine, the 20 odd, 70 odd, 70, almost 75 year old,

monthly of intellectual analysis. I know, I know that that that that a lot of filler,

there's a lot of filler, some Botox magazine of intellectual analysis, political

probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to

join us at commentary magazine.com. We give you a few free reads, ask you to

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including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. And

later today, I believe later today, we will have the contents of our

January issue up at commentary magazine.com, including our closing package on

the 2010s, the decade, as I said, the decade with no names since no one could come

up with a good term for it. A Greenwald with me, senior, senior editor, Hayab.

Hi, John. Author of a piece on the Decade of Anti-Exceptionalism, Noah Rothman

Associate, editor, Haynowah. Hi, John. A piece on the Decade of Fracking, Christine

Rosen, senior writer and Washington High Christine. Hi, John. Who has a piece on

the Decade of Social Media, and I have a piece on the on the Decade in which it was

revealed that nobody really knows how to do anything. We have Matt Contanetti on

the populism decade and Rob Long on the decade defined by stars who are

nobody's, cultural stars who are you've never heard of but who make tens of

millions of dollars and are famous to some people and not to everybody else. And

this is an entirely new thing. Anyway, it's a pretty great package. We have some

fantastic other stuff in the magazine, a great essay by Jonathan Schanzer on the

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