Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today Friday, May 13th, 2020.

I am Noah Rothman with us as always is executive editor, Aid Greenwald Hygiene.

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Senior writer, Christine Rose and Hy Christine.

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And joining us on the podcast for the first time in her illustrious career, Naomi Schaeffer

Riley, a commentary contributor for over 20 years and a senior fellow at the American

Enterprise Institute.

She is the author of No Way to Treat a Child, How the Foster Care System, Family Courts

and Radical Activists are wrecking young lives, timely work on what amounts to a conspiracy

within the child welfare system to rob children of permanent and stable homes.

I recommend you go out and get it.

But first listen to her on this show Naomi.

Thank you for joining us.

Thanks Noah.

So we've been talking often on this week about the passing of intellectual giant author

editor and the mother of John Pluthoritz, Mitch Dechter.

We've been talking about her work for her expansive career over the course of this week.

But we haven't really talked much about the ways in which she's touched on the lives of

those of us at commentary.

She's very obviously integral to the operation of this magazine and those of us who are at

her service on Wednesday were privileged to watch John deliver a particularly moving, expansive

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