Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Tuesday, October 22nd, 2020.

I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary, the 70-odd year-old monthly

intellectual analysis, political property and cultural criticism from a

conservative perspective. As always, we invite you to join us at commentary magazine.com,

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that will be up, but it should be up sometime in the next month and maybe as soon as

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all kinds of better navigation, all kinds of things. With me as always, your

friends from the commentary magazine website, associate editor Noir Rothman,

Hi Noah. Hi John. Senior editor, a green walled author of the great post this

weekend or whatever it was called. There is only one trump. No, there are not two

dummets. There are not two Donald Trumps. And of course, senior writer Christine

Rosen, who is joining me in a deep shodden Freud over the cancellation of the

publication of Naomi Wolf's book, which apparently hinged entirely on a

misunderstanding of the phrase death recorded. She wrote an entire book about

how homosexuals are being put to death left and right in Victorian England and

she went on a radio show six or eight months ago where the person on the show said,

you misunderstood death recorded in these forms meant that you were not put to

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