Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Tuesday, September 1st, 2021. I am John Poghord. It's the editor of

Commentary Magazine with me as always, executive editor Abe Greenwald-Hyeb.

Hi, John. Senior writer Christine Rosen-Hyecristine.

Hi, John. An associate editor. Noah Rothman, I am proud again to commend to you.

The October issue of commentary now available for your reading pleasure at

www.commentary.org. One of the best issues we've ever done.

Neat, compact, full of brilliant articles, Brett Stevens, Eli Lake, Jonathan

Schanzer, our own Christine Rosen, Mayor Sullivan Hick, Terry Teachout, our own

Abe Greenwald on Ben Shapiro's book The Authoritarian Moment, Adam White on

the Texas Abortion Bill, Rob Long on the Neelson rating system, Jim Megz on

renewable energy and why we've spent 40 years looking at it in the wrong way

and Matt Contnetti, as we talked about yesterday, on the subject of Biden, the

incompetent. Biden will speak after we finish taping the podcast, Biden will be

speaking at the UN General Assembly attempting to turn the public attention

in foreign policy terms away from the Afghanistan debacle to something else.

Noah, I want to commend to you your contempt yesterday. I want to sort of

praise you for the contempt you showed yesterday about all the concerns and

worries about the French and their bad feeling about the submarine deal.

There is a great column today by Walter Russell Meade in the Wall Street

Journal that sort of echoes Noah's point about like this is exactly what we

should be doing if we want to be serious about China. We want to shore up a

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