Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

It is the I's of March Wednesday March 15th, 2023.

I am John Pudhord's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald.

Hi, John.

Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen.

Hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington commentary columnist

Matthew Cunney.

Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

Matt, Christine and I all have pieces in the April issue of commentary.

Now available for your perusal at commentary.org if you are a subscriber to commentary magazine,

which you should of course be if you are listening to this podcast.

Christine, Christine's piece goes into the attack on the New York Times from within the New

York Times for the on the astonishing charge that the New York Times is hostile to trans people

and transgender ideology, which is a little like calling is commentary anti-zionist.

And which then brings me to my piece, which is an effort to explain what is going on in

Israel with these protests, continuing protests against the new government.

And Matt has a piece called the unity that won't last about how there is a weird outbreak.

You wouldn't really know this necessarily from the way social media covers it, but there

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