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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Does Anything Work Any Longer?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

From cars stuck on a frozen highway in Virginia to the constant revisions of the public-health leaders to the conviction of Elizabeth Holmes in California, the question arises yet again: What happened to competence? Give a listen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:23.9

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

0:26.9

Today is Tuesday January 4th 2022.

0:31.9

I'm John Pauhoort's the Editor of Commentary Magazine.

0:34.9

I apologize. Our website was down the most the day yesterday.

0:39.3

It's back up today, although eagle-eyed visitors to the site will note that the material that

0:49.2

is up is sort of the latest is from the second week in December. We had to sort of go back

0:57.0

to an earlier backup version of the site that sort of lost three weeks of material.

1:06.4

And we're trying to figure out why it happened and prevent it from happening again.

1:11.0

But I thank you for your patience if you were attempting to visit the site.

1:17.4

With me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald-Hye Abe.

1:21.3

Hi John.

1:22.3

Senior writer Christine Rosen.

1:23.3

Hi Christine.

1:24.3

Hi John.

1:25.3

And associate editor Noah Rothman.

1:26.9

Hi Noah. This is Noah's.

1:28.9

Oh, you can respond. No, I'm sorry.

1:31.1

Hi John. This is Noah's going on vacation. This is our last show with Noah for 10 days.

1:41.8

Yes.

1:42.8

Okay.

1:43.8

Back on the fourth show.

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