Race and the Newer Left

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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John Podhoretz is out for this episode of the Commentary Podcast, but he’s with us in spirit as we dive into the controversies of the week, many of which involve ethnicity and orientation. In this episode, the podcast explores the scuttling of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s trips to Israel, the Democratic 2020 field’s attacks on America’s foundational traditions and institutions... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today August 19th 2019.
0:29.4	I am Noah Rothman, the associate of commentary magazine with me is senior editor
0:34.8	Abe Greenwald. Hi, Noah. And on the road in an undisclosed location, Christine Rosen.
0:40.1	Hi, Noah. John Putthoritz is out today. Commentary magazine is the 70-year-old
0:45.8	monthly of intellectual opinion, air-edition, and general perspectives on
0:51.5	philosophy that you must be reading. A, all I've said, subscription is 29, 90
0:57.5	something dollars. How much is it? 29, 95. Digital subscription, 1995. We just
1:03.0	had the September issue come out and it's really fantastic. One of the
1:06.7	articles is actually going a little viral on its own, a article by Abraham
1:12.1	Sorter, reviewing the episode that happened at Oberlin College when there was
1:17.0	an effort to intimidate a local bakery, I suppose it was, and the politics
1:22.0	behind it and the behind the scenes stuff. It is a really fascinating article. It's
1:26.1	doing very well and it merits that you should go check it out also in that issue. A
1:30.3	lead article by Naomi Shafrily about the trouble in which feminism today finds
1:38.1	itself are on Christine Rosen with a review of the Good Fight, not especially
1:43.4	favorable review, right Christine? That's right.
1:45.7	Putting words in your mouth. It's mean stuff. I have a review of the book
1:54.3	American Carnage, which is I think pretty interesting. You might like it. It's
1:58.4	generally a very good issue. So go check it out. But we're not just going to be
2:02.9	talking about our issue all day. We're also going to be talking about some of
2:06.0	the news of the day, including a wild controversy that erupted late last
2:10.8	week when Congresswoman and BDS supporters themselves, Elon Omar and Rashida
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