How Half-Measures Lead to Half-Nelsons

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🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On the first COMMENTARY podcast of the week, the crew takes up the Trump White House’s move on the Iran deal, its declarations on health care, and its shifting policies on immigration and “Dreamers” and how they reveal that this revolutionary administration is actually engaging in half-measures that are designed to make everybody miserable. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast.
0:25.5	I'm John Pudhoritz, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:28.4	Today is Monday, October 16th, 2017.
0:33.1	With me as always, a Greenwald, our senior editor, Hi Abe.
0:36.3	Hi John.
0:37.3	And Noah Rothman, our associate editor, Hi Noah.
0:39.7	Hi John.
0:40.7	Commentary Magazine, the almost 73 year old monthly of intellectual
0:45.3	probity, political analysis, and conservative criticism from a conservative
0:50.0	criticism.
0:52.9	Not exactly the right way to put it, and critical commentary from a conservative
0:57.9	perspective.
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1:03.7	to subscribe.
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1:10.6	our beautiful monthly magazine.
1:12.0	In your mailbox, 11 times a year, we are closing the November issue today with a package
1:17.4	on taking President Trump seriously and remarkable essay by the University of Pennsylvania
1:22.8	Law School Professor Amy Wax on inequality and the top 20 percent, a brilliant piece by
1:33.0	Terry Teachout on the theater of Trump, a wonderful piece by Andrew Ferguson on the Washington
1:40.8	Memorist Sally Quinn, Christine Rosen on the use of the white man as villain.
1:48.9	So Rob on Teach for America.
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