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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. I don't I'm not even sure I know what the day is

who's got the date. March 16th. March 16th. Thank you Christine. March 16th 2020. I am John

Budhwards the editor of commentary and all the days are starting to feel the same.

This is of course the 70 odd year old monthly intellectual analysis, political

probity and cultural conservatism from a conservative perspective or whatever

or whatever it is I say. You can join us at commentarymagazine.com. We give you a few free reads and

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our beautiful monthly magazine in your inbox 11 times a year. We have closed the April issue.

It will be online today. There is so much good stuff in it that since we all have nothing but time

I expect everybody out of my voice to read every goddamn word in the April issue and then report

back to me on Thursday. I'm talking about the people who are on this podcast Abe Christine and

Noah who of course have read everything. I'm talking about everyone who is listening.

Among other things a masterpiece of an article by the screenwriter and director Andrew Bergwin

called the boys from lap time which is about his father and the Hollywood pioneer Carl Lemley who

is one of the world's great savers of Jews from the Holocaust. But there's tons of other stuff.

Christine has two pieces in the issue. Two including her new we have shifted her column. Her column

social commentary is now going to focus on the media and she has written a fantastic piece on

the media slavishness toward Elizabeth Warren and how it continued even after Elizabeth Warren

revealed herself to be a hollow shell of a candidate. So there's many other things anyway. So

Christine Rosen in Washington how are you under lockdown? On COVID-19 lockdown day one we are

hanging in there so far. Thank you. Okay Abe Greenwald where are you as we speak? I am in

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