Forlorn on the Fourth of July?

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Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Today's podcast takes up the question: Why are progressives so sour on the idea of American progress? Aren't they believers in progress? Well, not really any longer, and we try to explain why. Also, why do we know that cocaine was found in the White House? And why did a judge block the Biden administration from consulting with social-media companies? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach and pain, some die of thirst.
0:14.6	The way of knowing which way it's going, oh for the best, expect the worst.
0:23.2	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
0:28.1	I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor
0:32.8	A. Grimald.
0:33.8	Hi, John.
0:34.8	Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen, hi, Christine.
0:37.8	Hi, John.
0:38.8	And Washington commentary columnist Matthew Kahnetti.
0:41.6	Hi, Matt.
0:42.6	Hi, John.
0:43.6	Happy day after July 4.
0:47.8	Everybody.
0:48.8	I wanted to start with a more general conversation relating to July 4th that was stimulated
0:57.6	unexpectedly for me by the leftist, populist corporation hating columnist and substacker
1:12.8	Matt Stolar.
1:14.6	Matt Stolar whose main issue is the deep importance of unionization and the idea that all American
1:23.6	businesses now become essentially monopolistic and that all business needs to be somehow broken
1:29.4	up no matter whether they are formal monopolies or not, they're all effectively functioning
1:35.7	as monopolies in every field and we must do something about it.
1:42.0	Stolar sent out an email yesterday called the long annoying tradition of anti patriotism,
1:50.4	which is not something that I would have expected to see from Matt Stolar.
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