Firing a Cannon at the Canon

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Today's Noah-less podcast features the Commentary crew's horrified disbelief at Alex Ross's astounding claim in the New Yorker that American classical music originates from white supremacy, moves on to the justice or lack thereof in the coming ban on Chinese social media platforms in the United States, and then judges Joe Biden's town hall performance on CNN. Give a listen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday September.
0:15.1	What is the date 18th?
0:17.2	2020.
0:19.2	Error of Russia Shana.
0:20.5	So happy new year to all my to all my peeps out there.
0:25.2	I'm John Pajor.
0:26.2	It's the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald.
0:30.4	Hi, John.
0:31.4	Senior writer Christine Rosen.
0:33.3	Hi, Christine.
0:34.3	Hi, John.
0:35.3	And no, Rothman is off today.
0:36.7	So it is just the three of us to discuss all kinds of interesting material in Christine's
0:46.4	wheelhouse.
0:47.4	I want to begin though.
0:48.4	I said it was going to be over something else, but something I sent you guys earlier this
0:53.2	morning, which is a quote from an article by Alex Ross who is the music classical music
1:00.0	critic of the New Yorker.
1:03.0	And probably now the dean of classical music criticism in the United States.
1:09.6	And I'm now looking for this.
1:10.9	I'm sorry I should have done this better.
1:13.7	So he has written a piece about systemic racism in the classic world of classical music.
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