Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday November 15th 2018.

I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary the 70 mammolding into the 74th year as the nation's

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beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year we are today closing our December

issue and we'll have it up online in a matter of days including a really remarkable piece by Rabbi

Marisol Ivacic a reflection on the Pittsburgh massacre bringing out some of the weaknesses in the

response to this horror Seth Mandel and the hunger of liberal Jews to excommunicate conservative

Jews in the wake of Pittsburgh and our own Noah Rothman a preview of Noah's book unjust in the

form of an article that we are calling the social justice and justice using the Brett Kavanaugh

case to show the weaknesses of social justice warfare so all of that and more including

sorah are departing sorah bimari's last review as a member of the staff of Frank Foucaillama's

book on identity so it's a great issue and with me for as always the Rothman are

associate or high Noah hi John senior editor Abe Greenwald hi Abe hi John and for the last time

the very last time sorah bimari hold on this isn't working this is wrong it didn't work right I know I

had a whole thing I had a whole thing set up it was going to be so funny and then I screwed up hold on

see it's too boring everything this is what happens when you when you do something without rehearsing

there we go I'm getting seared up it's true who's chopping onions in here it's beautiful

we should have just done a clip show sorah's best moments clip show right what they

like the Michael J Fox family tie shows where you would see remember falling down the stairs and then

you'd see him like crying like the the the real to win the Emmy right so this is just dead time

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