Welcome to the last commentary podcast

of 2017. I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary magazine, the 73-year-old monthly of

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With me in the holiday spirit on this the shortest day of the year,

eight greenwald our senior editor, hi, hi, John I'm always in the holiday spirit.

You are you are mister you are there's mistletoe hanging above your head right now.

No, a Rothman or a sociadier, hi, Noah. Hi, John.

Not many much holiday spirit.

No, nothing too, you know, I'm happy.

Aimen I don't have Christmas trees, but you have a Christmas tree and I'm like full brimming

with Christmas spirit here.

Believe the brimming, I think we'd be off-brand and we've got to have the morocity somewhere.

That's right and and and newly minted Christian Sauravamari or a Justinian writer.

Yes. Finishing up his memoir in coming weeks and months on his conversion to Catholicism,

is that correct? That's right. So another glorious event of 2017.

Noah Rothman has finished a book which will be coming out next year.

So this is a very productive, we're in a very productive frame of mind here.

Cheerful, we're happy, we're excited, we got vacation coming up next week so we won't have

shows next week. I'm taking the family to Paris so I'm excited about that.

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