Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday, August 17, 2020.

I am John Poghorets the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

a greenwald high a hi John associate editor noir Rothman high Noah hi John Christine

Rosen is off today commentary is of course the 70-odd year-old monthly of intellectual analysis

political property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective we invite you to join us

at commentary magazine.com we give you a few free reads we ask you to subscribe you have a digital

option you can get our print magazine we have just closed our September issue of the print magazine

and there is so much good stuff in it I can't even begin to tell you because not only do we have

Abe Greenwald's blockbuster piece I guess this is a revolution we have Michael J Lewis on the statue

destruction frenzy we have Matt Kunt netty on the school wars we have Tull Fortgang on whether

they're the incremental or revolutionary change is good or bad we have a great piece by Matt Shapiro

on the horrible misreporting of COVID data and we have an amazing piece by Bob McManus my old

colleague on the New York post editorial page called the resistible rise of Andrew Cuomo and

not to be outdone Naomi Riley a remarkable first person account of how her kids fancy prep school

in westchester county went crazy with the racism agenda and drove her and her kids out of the school

pretty much rob long on dolly part and then why we should celebrate her Terry teach out on Isaac

Stern just so much good stuff so that's the commentary September issue you can access at a

commentary magazine.com but the more you access it the more you're going to hit that pay well asking

to subscribe and you really should Abe Greenwald author of the blockbuster lead piece of that issue

stuff happen over the weekend that just confirms our sense that a revolution is going on in this

country violent revolution in certain parts and we are seeing some pretty hideous examples of

what happens when revolutions happen no. Yeah it's just very blunt sickening mass violence in the streets

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