Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday April 16th 2018.

I am John Pudhoritz the editor of commentary magazine the 70-some-odd year old

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or monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times year we just closed our May issue

with a lead piece by none other than Noah Rothman on the fatalist conceit which you'll have to

read the issue to understand or that it should be up I think I'm actually I'm not sure when

it's gonna be up because our because our redoubtable associate layer rock money had a baby this weekend

and so she is not around to to post the issue so we'll be up today or tomorrow okay we'll be

up to there tomorrow it's a brilliant piece and we have a bunch of great stuff on Israel 70th

anniversary and the miracle at 70 so our of a marion rostow that's to change the church Kevin Williamson

Kevin S the first article by Kevin Williamson since his since the controversy surrounding him

on the writer Julia Kristava and her and the emergence claim that she is a was actually an agent of

the evil Eastern European regime that she served a lot of a lot of good stuff so that's what we have

coming if you subscribe you get that magazine in your mailbox and if you pass 1995 you can read

the entirety of its contents in the next couple of days with me as always Abe Greenwald senior

editor hi Abe hi John the aforementioned brilliant author of the fatalist conceit Noah Rothman hi John

and the author of the leading a leading work of of of Catholic apologetics and you know in a

Jewish magazine sorobo marie senior writer high sorob hi Ja okay so last night James Comey was on TV

there four of us around this table only one of us watched him on TV the other three of us

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