Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, July 6, 2021.

I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald Hyab.

Hi, John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen, hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

No, a Rothman is out this week.

I don't know how we're going to function or how our rhythms are going to are going to

function here without Noah, who had various concerns that he was expressing over the weekend

about many things, but could cannot join us for the podcast about the bug out from Afghanistan

and the abandonment of Bogrom Airbase about about Fauci about all kinds of stuff.

So we will endeavor to show, you know, soldier on without him reflecting his, his, his, his

anger.

One thing I will say is he wrote a very good blog post on the, it's on, it's a commentary

magazine.com about two, two things last week.

One was, hey, liberals, if you want to left us, if you want to surrender patriotism to

the right, if you actually want to go anti patriotic and, you know, and, and, and, and say that

all of the symbols of American greatness are poisoned and terrible, go right ahead.

Like we're happy to take them from you just like we did 50 years ago.

And then the other was a, an elaboration of what we talked about on the last podcast,

which was this astounding NPR segment, in which rather than simply reading the Declaration

of Independence, which they have done every fourth of July previous for the last um, teen

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