Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Thursday, August 19, 2021. I am John Pubhord. It's the editor of Commentary

Magazine with me as always executive editor, a Greenwald Hyade.

Hi John.

Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine.

Hi John.

So we do have our September issue up at commentary.org featuring that amazing lead piece by you

Bollyman. We talked about the other day, what we got right in the COVID fight. We also

have our own Christine Rosen on the possibility of a parent's movement in the United States

following the horrors of the last year and a half. We have an astonishing piece by Paul McCue

and Gerard Bradley, Paul McCue having run the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins

for many decades about gender dysphoria and trans-genderism and uninformal consent relating

to teenagers and transitioning Joseph Epstein on being the owner of a cat. Ed Kozner

on the 30th anniversary of the Crown Heights program. Many many other things. Great issue.

Go to commentary.org and subscribe. The horrors continue a pace as the Biden administration

attempts to explain its way through the debacle. And I guess exhibit A was the president's

interview with George Stephanopoulos yesterday, which maybe was not on the level of Ted Kennedy

finding himself unable to answer the question, why do you want to be president, which helped

derail his bid in 1980. But it's hard to think of a presidential self-defense that was worse

or less competent or more troubling in its applications. So Abe, let's start with the

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