Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Friday, August 20th, 2020. I am John Pudworths, the editor of commentary.

A gremult is out this week. Joining us today is a public intellectual scholar, author,

guy at the American Enterprise Institute who has a title that is so complicated. I can't

remember what it is. An editor of National Affairs. You've all lived in. How you've all.

Hello. Thanks for having me. You're like the director of the social,

at American and history and studies and. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Public intellectual. That's pretty rough though. That's. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's.

That's a great start. I'm. It's the nerdiest. It's the nerdiest thing I could think of to say.

And, of course, longtime commentary contributor. Also, with us, as always, Senior writer,

Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi, John. And associate editor and all Rossman. Hi, Noah.

Hi, you've all Donald Trump gave a 70 minute speech last night.

Good. That'll be.

That'll be.

Camping the convention. The four day convention. What, what are your thoughts?

Well, it was a very long speech. I don't know how it compares to past ones, but it's

certainly struck me as longer than all of them combined. It made all of its points multiple times.

But, you know, I think the Republicans recognized that the Democrats left them in opening

by not talking about people's concerns about order in the cities, about safety in general.

And they made the most of it. So the speech got at that point over and over.

I think aside from that, you know, we tried to make the most of the situation he's dealing with

with coronavirus. Made a promise about a vaccine that may be plausible and maybe not.

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