American Adhocracy

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Biden administration is making the strategic petroleum reserve available to the markets seemingly only in response to his sagging polls, which observers believe is a response to rising consumer costs. But this is not an energy policy. Also, thoughts on the public response to the verdict in the Rittenhouse trial. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	...
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.
0:26.4	Today is Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021. I am John Upboard. It's the editor of Commentary
0:31.2	with me. It's always executive editor, A. Greenwald Hyatt.
0:34.4	Hi John.
0:35.2	Senior writer Christine Rosen-Heikristeem.
0:37.3	Hi John.
0:38.3	And associate editor, Noah Rothman-Hinowa.
0:40.7	Hey John.
0:42.3	So we had a wonderful night last night. It was the commentary roast of Mayor Salavecic,
0:47.8	our annual fundraising event commentary, as you may or may not know, is a non-profit 501C3
0:56.1	and we survive and thrive based on the elementary generosity of our readers, our listeners,
1:05.0	and people who believe in the intellectually driven analysis that we try to provide here
1:15.9	on a daily basis and on our website on a daily basis and in our magazine on a monthly basis
1:22.1	and 400 people joined us for an evening of
1:27.2	merriment, high spirited, good humor and it was just thrilling to see people,
1:37.2	see 400 people without their mask on. Everybody fully vaccinated to see faces, to see people socializing
1:45.9	with each other. I know this sounds banal, but it was sort of like anything but and I cannot thank
1:53.2	all of you enough who came. I cannot so many of you, so many people came from all over the country
2:00.7	because they wanted to be with us and contribute and you were so kind and it was so wonderful to
2:09.2	meet you and I think all of us, Abe, Christine, Noah and I were just deeply moved by the kind words
2:22.4	you spoke about, how much this podcast and how much the magazine, how much the website
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