Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday, August 14th

2023. I am John Pajor, it's the editor of Commentary and magazine with me as always,

executive editor A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Hey, let me just interrupt the proceedings to

point out that our September issue is now I believe fully available on our website at commentary.org

or if it's not, it will be, it is probably whether it's okay, it's all there. And I just want to tell

everybody that it is a harvest of riches. And if you are not subscribing, now I'm not going to

insult you and call you a, you know, a free loader and a scuffle on all of that. I'm going to say that

you are, you are damaging your own enjoyment, pleasure, ability to understand the world and all of

that. If you don't subscribe and dig deep into this issue, the September 22 not only our cover

story, Oppenheimer was a communist and eye opening and very important piece about a very important

work of popular culture that is both impressive and distorting. We have Eli Lake, why Democrats are

all in unprotecting Joe Biden, very important piece. We have the Biden turn against Israel by former

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Alan Carr, who was the anti-Semitism czar in the Trump

administration, Elliott Abrams on the increasingly fashionable idea that United States should cut off

aid to Israel and why that's a bad idea. A brilliant personal essay by David Margolan called the

Jews and Defiance of History about Stalin's shooting grounds. Joseph Epstein, our longest

live active contributor, 60 years, writing for commentary, whatever happens in culture by Joseph

Epstein, our own Christine Rosen, whom I will interview, interview, introduce and do course

on the New York Times and others continuing to try to cover up for the lies that are being told

that we now know we're being told by the COVID researchers at the beginning of the pandemic

and Mayor Sullivan-Vechick on the hysterical comparisons of the current situation in Israel

to the destruction of the temple or the two temples. And also with us today, and about to be

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