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🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:24.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Monday, December 27th, 2021. |
0:29.7 | I am John Poghurt, the editor of Commentary Magazine. We're going to do something a little different this week. |
0:36.1 | We're not talking about the news. We're going to talk about matters of culture, matters of intellect and |
0:45.4 | intellection, give you some of the benefit of our wisdom on books, movies, television shows, |
0:53.5 | and other products that we enjoyed or hated or studied or considered in the year 2021 to give you some |
1:02.2 | guidance on how you might want to spend your holiday week if that is something that you need from us. |
1:12.5 | And we're also doing this in part because I didn't want to go dark this week because I wanted to come |
1:17.6 | and Shnor. I wanted to handle you. I wanted to ask you if you would please, please donate to |
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2:10.4 | every day next year if we can continue to do it with the refunds and with the refunds with the |
2:16.7 | resources and funds that we have. Okay, so 2021, we thought we would start by talking about |
2:25.9 | books that made an impact on us in 2021, not books of 2021, of which I read many and got to admit |
2:36.4 | that I can't say that I profited from much of what I read this year in the calendar year, but |
2:45.2 | read many things this year that were a profit that didn't come out this year. So I thought maybe |
2:50.7 | we would start Christine. Why don't you start and tell us what you read this year that made a |
2:56.7 | particular impression on me? Sure, I'm going to be obnoxious and I can't pick just one. I'll save the |
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