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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Monday September 13th 2021.

I'm John Pobhord. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald-High A.

Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen-High Christine.

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An associate editor-no-Rothman-High Noah.

Hi John.

Guys, the September 11th commemoration has come and gone and I think it's fair to say that

even 10 years ago we would not have predicted the

sombrowness of the occasion and it's a sombrowness not about the commemoration of the horrors of

that day which should always be sombre but about the condition of the United States 20 years after

9-11 because it's a moment of reflection in which a lot of people

on all sides of the aisle are looking at the country and saying that something has gone

deeply wrong in the last two decades since 9-11 and the question is was 9-11 the

triggering event of all of that or was the or are other things that are not really related to it

you know the the the the consequence and I I genuinely don't don't know we are clearly

a country in a state of some kind of emotional crisis and we were not a country in a state of

emotional crisis on September 10th and we were a country attacked and unified to some extent

in the wake of that attack about how our way of life had been assaulted that it was under threat

and that we had something to fight for and live for and work for and support and I don't even

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