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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. Today is Thursday, July 25th, 2019.

A notable day in American history as it is the date of the birth of my mother,

Midge, Dr. Pajoritz, who is 92 today. And I was writing letters to my kids at

camp trying to go through what it means to have been born in 1927. Like that was

the year that the first trip, plane trip across the Atlantic took place. It was

24 years after the first air flight, you know, 35 years after the first car, you

know, seven years after the introduction of radio. You think of all the

things that hadn't happened yet. You know, there hadn't been a great depression.

Hadn't been World War II. There hadn't been the Holocaust. There hadn't been

the creation of Israel. There hadn't been the, you know, the Cold War and

trans-isterrization and television and, you know, the sort of the transformation of

the world that she and people of her age have lived through is just staggering

and how close they were to the age before electricity and, you know, before the

ability of people to travel more than like 40 miles from their home without

making a major expedition of it. Anyway, yes, I'm John Pajoritz, the editor of

Commentary and with me is always Christine Rosen in Washington, senior writer

Hykristine. Hi John and happy birthday to your mom. She's a great, great role model to a lot of us.

Thank you very much. And here in studio, no Rossman, associate or Hinoa. Hi John.

And a brainwalled senior, wait, senior editor. Hi John. Executive editor. So the editor of

editors. I like it. Titles, titles are, my mother is 92 as I've said which, which also helps

under explain how I am 58 and I'm losing my marbles just so. All right. So who also

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