Civility Wars

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

John Podhoretz is out today, so the COMMENTARY Podcast hosts are left to navigate the great civility debate in his absence. When is it appropriate to allow politics to determine how you interact with other people? Are activists and service providers justified by allowing political disputes to spill out into the personal realm? And is any of this still about the border? Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today.
0:26.4	Monday June 25th 2018 I'm Noah Rothman with me as always is senior writer
0:32.4	Soreb Amari, high-soreb, high-knowa, and senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:37.1	Hey Noah.
0:38.6	John Putthoritz is out today and we must begin with an apology for our
0:42.5	regular listeners on Thursday.
0:44.0	We recorded a podcast for Motley via Skype and it was a technical disaster.
0:49.2	The audio quality did not meet our professional standards and so we ended up
0:53.2	taking that one down.
0:54.7	It is in the ether, in the archives.
0:57.2	If you have it, it's the secret show.
0:59.5	You are very fortunate for having that one because we're never going to acknowledge it
1:03.2	again.
1:04.2	So keep that in your back pocket and remember what was said because we won't be talking
1:08.9	about it.
1:09.9	But we will be doing a brand new show for you today with our standard mic setup and
1:16.8	the technological capacity and professional caliber that you have become used to as a
1:24.0	regular listener of the commentary podcast.
1:26.2	Today is a very special day.
1:28.7	It is the day civility died.
1:31.4	If there ever was a time in American politics as we recall as a real bastion of civility,
1:39.2	it is no more.
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