Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday.

I believe it's September 20th am I correct? Yes September 20th 2018. I am John

Puthhorz the editor of commentary magazine today's podcast is sponsored by

ancestry.com with us as always a green walled are a what's your title again?

I'm still senior editor senior editor sorry. Associate nor Rothman I know

I John and senior writer sora of Amari hi sora and and joining us today for

the first time commentary social commentary columnist Christine Rosen hi

Christine hi John thanks for having me on so we are doing this in a slightly

unusual fashion for us we're on Skype instead of in our podcast studio since

Christine is in Washington and because we are on Skype and not in our podcast

studio no Rothman is at his palatial home in New Jersey whereas a sora of an

eye are all about 15 feet away from each other but in separate offices on cute

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today as usual by nor Rothman but by our friend Scott Emmergut from

ricochet the place for polite and wonderful conversation on the web or is

that I think I got that I got it close enough for government work so so

everybody we have what appears to be a gradual shift in the general perception of

the revelation that there is an accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett

Kavanaugh who says that when he was 17 and she was 15 they he he subjected her to

an unwanted sexual advance that involved some physical contact us if true

would merit would constitute some form of sexual assault this sort of

first came out last week when we first talked about this on Monday things looked

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