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🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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0:00.0 | Music |
0:24.0 | Welcome to the first commentary magazine podcast of the new decade if you accept that the |
0:28.1 | decade begins in 2020 and not 2021. I'm agnostic as to this controversy but I will go with it because |
0:36.0 | this seems to be the brand of the day. I'm John Pudhorz, the editor of Commentary, |
0:41.6 | the 70-odd-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political property and cultural |
0:45.6 | criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us as we always do at |
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0:53.9 | 1995 for a digital subscription and 29.95 for an all-access subscription including our beautiful |
0:59.9 | monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. With me as always, senior editor Abe Greenwald |
1:04.5 | Hayab. Hi, John. Associate editor Noah Rothman Haynow. Hi, John. And in Washington, |
1:08.9 | senior writer Christine Rosen-Heikrstein. Hi, John. So it is not a happy new year here in New York City |
1:15.2 | where we are all living stunned with this spate of anti-semitic crimes and attacks, most notably |
1:27.0 | the machete attack about 30 miles north of New York City in the town of Muncie, |
1:34.2 | where a black man came in to a rabbi's house with a machete during a Hanukkah party and |
1:40.8 | slashed at five people before other attendees of the party through chairs at him and |
1:48.3 | bloodyed him and he drove away and was apprehended in New York City later. That evening, |
1:55.6 | following up along the massacre in the three people killed in the Jersey City supermarket, |
2:03.1 | also just outside New York City. And then these almost daily incidents of vicious and |
2:09.3 | unprovoked attacks on the streets, largely of Brooklyn, though also on subways, on buses. |
2:16.0 | Something very, very, very dramatic is going on here. Has been going on really |
2:22.0 | for the last year, year and a half, but it is accelerated and as our own Abe Greenwald |
2:28.0 | detailed in a brilliant blog post, it has been very difficult for the mainstream media to cope with |
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