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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday, December 15,

2021. I am John Poghore. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always,

executive editor Abe Greenwald. I didn't get a high John, but I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got

I got a confess. I was up most of the night. We have a new puppy. It's a hominise. She's like

10 and a half weeks old. And when people said it's like having a baby, it really is like having a

baby. So I am I am the worst for wear. And I sound vaguely inebriated. And I'm mostly just

beyond exhausted. So mostly that's why I didn't say that's why I didn't say hi Abe. Though I meant to

say hi Abe, though I also meant to say my life isn't worth a plug nickel, but okay.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John, you cannot create trade in your children. I'm

just making sure our listeners understand that distinction. Yes. Yes. Well, that that ship has

sailed. And associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah. Hi John. And joining us today are our

old friend Commentary contributor Wilford Riley, author of Hate Crime Hokes's and taboo and

I have fourth coming. You have some forthcoming stuff. Yeah, well, got it. Is it titled?

Oh, no, not yet actually. Okay. I have two more books probably coming out next year,

but we're still in the in the contract stage for those. Okay. Well, I hate you because you have

two more books coming out. And I have no more books coming out. Noah has a book coming out,

but neither Christine will have a book coming out. I don't have a book. Abe doesn't have a book.

So we're we envy. We envy you and we're hostile toward across the board soon. Okay, but we're

hostile toward you. You're coming into a hostile podcasting environment, which which brings up.

We like to talk to about everything, but and of course everybody on the right in the podcasting

world has been talking to you, Wil Riley, though Commentary was the first to publish you on this

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