Democracy Protestors and Coming Recessions

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The protests in Hong Kong get more aggressive and the prospects for peaceful resolution seem to be getting more distant; what does it all mean? And what on earth is an “inverted yield curve” and why should it terrify us? You might not get an answer from this podcast, but you will be entertained. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Wednesday, August 14th, 2019.
0:29.9	I am John Pudhortz, the editor of Commentary, the 70-odd-year-old monthly of
0:34.0	Intellectual Analysis, Political Proveny, and Cultural Criticism from a
0:37.2	conservative perspective. We invite you as ever to join us at
0:40.7	CommentaryMagasing.com. We give you food free reads. We ask you to subscribe
0:44.3	1995 for a digital subscription and 2995 for an all-access subscription,
0:49.6	including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times year. We
0:53.4	just closed our September issue. So the articles and reviews from that issue
0:59.6	will be online in the next day or so. Magazine, the issue is led by Naomi
1:06.2	Schaefer-Reile's piece, Feminism is in Trouble, which is a reflection on the
1:11.7	meaning of the best-selling novel, Flicanism in Trouble by Taffy Brutusar
1:16.2	Ackner, and the problems of the existential problems of fourth wave feminism.
1:23.3	We also have an extraordinary piece by retired Oberlin College professor
1:27.4	Abraham Socher. Now the editor of the Jewish Review of Books about the astounding
1:33.5	Oberlin boycott of the local bakery Gibson's and the $33 million
1:41.6	judgment levied against Oberlin for its defamation of this business. And it is
1:49.1	a personal account, a comprehensive account. It's a pretty extraordinary piece.
1:55.0	Christine Rosen, our own Christine Rosen, who might have not yet introduced, but
1:58.8	who is still in Maine on vacation high Christine has a piece as we mentioned
2:03.7	on the previous podcast about the CBS show The Good Fight, which is called the
2:08.4	Bad Fight, and we'll explain that in due course. Mayor Sullivan-Vakesh, Jewish
2:13.6	commentary, is about the 150th anniversary of innocence abroad. Mark Twain's
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