Autopsy Podcast on The Weekly Standard

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s podcast features an explanation of and peroration on the demise of the Weekly Standard, how the magazine fit into the world of conservative intellectual publishing both now and when it was created in 1995, and the evolution of magazines from keeping a long-armed distance from politics and parties to the present-day demand that they serve as the cheerleaders for movements. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:25.8	I'm John Podhor, it's the editor of commentary magazine.
0:29.3	The 70-odd-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political
0:32.8	probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
0:35.9	We invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com.
0:39.4	We give you a few free reads, ask you to subscribe.
0:42.5	1995 for a digital subscription, 29.95 for an all-access subscription, including our beautiful
0:48.0	monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year.
0:51.0	We have just closed our January issue with a remarkable important piece by our own Abe Greenwald
0:57.6	on the war on Asian Americans in both in secondary and higher education.
1:06.2	With us today of course, as always, Abe Greenwald, senior editor, hi Abe.
1:10.1	Hi John.
1:11.1	So we will be putting that piece up when do you think today, maybe tomorrow.
1:15.6	There tomorrow at War on Asian Americans, very important.
1:20.2	Please read it.
1:21.2	We'll talk some more about it on Thursday and no arothman associate or high note.
1:25.2	Hi John.
1:26.2	Christine Rosen is not with us today.
1:29.0	Christine has been serving as the managing editor for the last year of the weekly standard,
1:35.7	which as you probably heard or may have heard was shuttered on Friday.
1:42.7	And so we, in an effort to speak as freely as possible about the demise of the standard,
1:49.2	wanted to have an open conversation that Christine was going to have some difficulty participating
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