Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday June 15, 2020.

I am John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary with me is always senior editor

Abe Greenwald Hi Abe. Hi John. See you right

of Christine Rosen, Hi Christine. Hi John. An associate editor, no

Rothman, Hi Noah. Hi John. We are closing our double July August

issue today. So things should be going up on the website in the next 48 hours

among them a pretty remarkable piece by Wilford Riley. Abe you want to talk a

little bit about Riley's piece because I guess we're going to try to have him on

the podcast to talk about it also but yeah he just he goes into how a lot of the

narratives around what happened in Minneapolis and what followed have been

sort of faulty from the start beginning with police data and the makeup of

police departments and who the protesters were and sort of all the misleading

narratives surrounding the the current convulsions. Right we also have Steve

Hayward, a professor at Berkeley talking about his cancellation at Berkeley which

is a pretty great piece. We have a the first I think serious philosophical

argument that is being made with the enormously best-selling analyst of human

nature Yuval Harari. We have Noah our own Noah on on vaping and the war on

vaping and our own Christine on never letting a crisis go to waste Christine you

want to talk a little about that. Well it seems like an like an eon ago but it's

actually about the COVID pandemic and about how very early on opportunistic

progressive seized upon the pandemic as a means to pursue agenda items that

voters had either soundly rejected or were ambivalent about and so and kind of

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