Responding to Parkland: Amend the Second Amendment?

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🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For those who want radical changes in the way the United States handles guns and shooters, what else can be done but amending the Constitution to supplant the Second Amendment? That’s the question John Podhoretz asks Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald on this edition of the COMMENTARY Magazine podcast, which also addresses rising Republican fortunes in national polling. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:27.1	Today is Thursday, February 15th, 2018.
0:29.8	I'm John Puhhortz, the editor of Commentary, the 73-year-old monthly of intellectual
0:34.9	analysis, political, property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
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0:50.0	our beautiful monthly magazine.
0:52.3	In your mailbox 11 times a year, we are just closing our March issue, which has, among
0:57.8	other things, an extraordinary memoir about music and faith and fatherhood and marriage
1:06.6	by the singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman, the very unusual piece for us.
1:13.1	But that'll be online probably by Tuesday, I guess.
1:17.8	And it's pretty extraordinary, an amazing piece by Ruth Weiss about the lingering intellectual
1:26.1	and philosophical after effects of Hanna Arnt's notorious Ikeman in Jerusalem essay and
1:35.8	book.
1:38.9	A remarkable piece by a remarkable person to appear in commentary, the Israeli New
1:45.3	historian Benny Morris on the first important American diplomat in Israel in the late 1940s.
1:53.7	A lot of good stuff in this issue.
1:56.4	Great piece by Andy Ferguson on the movie The Post.
2:01.0	A great piece by Christine Rosen on the hot philosopher, Dijor Jordan Peterson, Matt
2:11.4	Contnetti on the creation of the Stalinist, Jewish-A star, Kim Yo-jong, which is up now
2:21.6	on our website.
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