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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Searching for Distractions from the Pandemic

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The single, all-consuming story of our time continues to dominate the press, but there appears to be an increasing hunger among news consumers for distractions from it. And, so, we discuss them. Trump’s aggressive behavior on Twitter. Viral videos. Joe Rogan and the backlash to his success. We discuss it all. Source

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0:00.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, May 26, 2020.

0:29.9

I am John Puthhord's the editor of commentary magazine the 70-odd year-old monthly of intellectual

0:35.6

analysis, political, provody and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.

0:40.4

We invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and ask you

0:47.1

to subscribe.

0:48.1

Our June issue is up and available for your perusal as I was telling you last week with some

0:53.8

really extraordinary articles among them.

0:58.4

Terry Teachout's account of his remarkable marriage to Hillary and her passing during the

1:10.2

pandemic article called My Gallant Gall.

1:14.2

So please take a look at that.

1:16.6

You can take a look at Noah Rothman's personal account of the madness of living under quarantine

1:23.8

with two small children called the quarantining and Christine Rosen on the double standard

1:33.5

pertaining to accusations of sexual assault in the media when the accused is a liberal

1:42.5

Democrat running for president.

1:46.0

And many other things.

1:47.8

So please take a look there.

1:50.6

And as I mentioned, Christine Rosen's senior writer is here with us today.

1:56.0

Hi Christine.

1:57.0

Hi John.

1:58.0

And of course Noah Rothman, our associate editor, Hi Noah.

2:01.9

Hi John.

2:03.0

And the man who shepherded those pieces into print and online senior editor, Abe Greenwald.

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