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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday June 12, 2020.

I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary magazine the 70-odd year-old monthly

event election analysis political, probity and cultural criticism from a

conservative perspective. We invite you to join us at commentary magazine.com

where we give you a few free reads and ask you to subscribe with me as always

senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine,

hi John, associate editor no Rothman, high Noah,

hi John, and senior writer a senior editor a Greenwald, hi Abe, hi John,

we are closing our double summer double issue in the next couple of days with

some extraordinary stuff we will be laying out to you. I do want to mention one

thing for listeners of the podcast and readers of the magazine. We are

instituting a new monthly column to be called tech commentary by James B.

Meag's who wrote the extraordinary piece we published in the May issue I think

about elite panics in the face of disasters and how the refusal to trust the

public with its own care and self-protection at the time of a crisis is a an

enduring problem for elites in the country who think that what they should do with

these moments is lie and pretend to be more in control than they are and all

sorts of things and we have a prime example of this in this pretty amazing

Wall Street Journal piece that came out yesterday a huge investigation into the

New York State and New York City coronavirus response that should if anything

is fair destroy the reputation the unwanted unwarranted unearned and

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