Mindless in Gaza, and a Goodbye to Tom Wolfe

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🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The reaction to the violence at the Israel-Gaza border was not a surprise, we say on this week’s first podcast, but the perpetual effort to deny Palestinians human agency and to absolve them of responsibility for the actions leading to the deaths and injuries on the Gazan side never ceases to amaze. And we take the measure of the life and work of Tom Wolfe, dead at 87. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Tuesday, May 15th, 2018.
0:29.8	I'm John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-some-odd year-old
0:33.2	monthly of intellectual analysis, political,
0:35.4	property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
0:39.2	Join us at commentary magazine.com.
0:41.8	We give you a few free reads and then we ask you to subscribe 1995 for a
0:46.1	digital subscription 20995 for an all-access subscription, including our
0:50.4	beautiful monthly magazine. In your mailbox 11 times a year, we just closed our
0:54.9	June issue so it will be in that mailbox next week sometime I believe and it is
1:00.4	online today or not quite today or tomorrow with some really remarkably good
1:09.2	content as we literally say when we're referring to essays, articles, and pieces
1:17.6	of criticism. With me as always, Abe Greenwald or senior editor,
1:22.1	hi Abe, hi John, no arosmen or associate editor, hello Noah, hi John, and senior
1:27.2	writer, Sora Bimari, very relieved and happy to have completed the manuscript of
1:32.7	his forthcoming memoir sent off to his publisher Noah Rossman also has a
1:38.1	book coming out later this year. This is the scary part next year.
1:41.6	Next year, early next year. Yeah, early next year. This is the scary part when you
1:44.9	get your edits back. Oh, that's bad. That's bad. Except of course speaking as an editor,
1:51.8	it's bad. So of course, I just finished reading, I'm finished, John is book.
1:58.5	John Goldberg, you might not know, John Goldberg has a book. Yes, he wrote a book,
2:02.9	did he? And one of the lines in there is that the editor chopped half of the
2:10.1	thing right off and I kind of would like to see the outtakes of what we have
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