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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday, May 21st, 2020.

I am John Pothawarts, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-odd year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,

probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com

Where our June issue is now available for your

Perusal, it is a powerful and important issue, I think, with contributions by Noah Rothman, our

Societor, Hi Noah. Noah has written a personal account of the quarantining of the Rothman

family, which listeners to the podcast experienced in real time, but it which he lays out as the

experience of people trying to deal with constantly shifting and changing guidance from public

officials and elected officials and how basically this could drive you crazy and did drive

Noah and his wife and children a little crazy and so it's a really terrific piece. Christine

Rosen, our senior writer, Hi Christine. Hi John. Christine has written about the tower read

Biden. Am I right? I remember him correctly because I am approaching my seventh decade and

my brain cells are not what they used to be, so Christine's piece deals with the

hypocrisy issue. Yes, the media is very different response to terror read compared to, for example,

Christine Blasey Ford. I will now confess to you, Abe was very complimentary about, but is

largely written to be the supporting document for some absolutely astonishing photographs

taken by Daniel Rose and amateur photographer in New York City who has been documenting for the

last two and a half months the visual experience of an emptied out New York. And so I think for the

first time in commentary's history, we have basically published a photo essay with supporting

copy for me called the empty city mine. And so you can read my my piece, which you can either like

or not like, but the real glory there is these unprecedented eerie beautiful terrifying photographs

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