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expect the worst of the best Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Tuesday

February 13th, 2024. I am John Puthor. It's the editor of commentary

recommending to you our March issue now up at commentary.org. A really

remarkable piece by Adam White about the head of the FTC, Lena Khan, and her efforts to declare everything and anything, a monopoly requiring breakup, where she comes

from, what kind of power she is attempting to wield, and how she is eerily

reminiscent of another power broker from a different era.

So that is, the piece is actually called the power broker by

Adam White have a wonderful piece by Eli Lake called a brief history of the

as a Jew you may remember that we've talked about the as a Jew, the person in the political conversation who says as a Jew I'm horrified by thus and such thing that Israel does or a Jew does or Judaism suggests or anything like that.

And he traces the lineage of the Aziju back to the late Middle Ages, particularly in the case of a man

named Johannes Pfeffricorn.

It's really a splendid piece and I mentioned yesterday an extraordinary short story by Cynthia Ozick called the story of my family

Cynthia Ozick is 95 years old and just let me just put it this way required no line editing which is for

you editors out there thinking about what it's like to work with anybody, the idea that an article

would require a story, an article anything by someone 25 years old, let alone 95 years

old, would require no line editing would seem like almost supernatural.

There's a lot more stuff, we'll talk about it later on in the week and through the month.

With me, as always, Executive editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.

Hi, John. Media commentary columnist Christine,

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