The Crime Issue Roars Back
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today's podcast begins with a horror story from Chicago—a criminal run amok just a day or so after a judge released him on his own recognizance—and broadens it out to wonder whether the seeming halt in the Democratic polling surge is due to Republicans hitting them hard on crime. Then we get pretty dark about the possibility of bad stuff happening with nukes in Ukraine. It's crushing morosity! Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | music. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to the commentary magazine The Elite Podcast today is Friday, September 30, 2012. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm John Baudhoort, the editor of Commentary Magazine. |
| 0:34.2 | Christine Rosen is out today. |
| 0:36.0 | So it's just us three guys. |
| 0:38.8 | Abe Greenwald, our executive editor, Hi Abe. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:45.2 | And our husband, our associate editor and author of Brzezl and Appearance. |
| 0:49.9 | Hi Noah. |
| 0:50.6 | Hi John. |
| 0:51.6 | And me. |
| 0:52.4 | So we are, we are stagged today. |
| 0:56.7 | And we are short, short staffed and retired. |
| 1:00.4 | And so both, both know and I have, have, have dogs that have misbehaved in the middle |
| 1:06.0 | of the night causing us to have to do cleanup. |
| 1:08.8 | And that of course, interferes with one's capacity to think clearly in the morning. |
| 1:14.9 | So I, I thought about bringing up to you guys a pretty remarkable, horrible story about |
| 1:25.1 | Chicago. |
| 1:27.1 | Of course, you know, decided by conservatives constantly as, you know, sort of this epicenter |
| 1:33.9 | of crime under, under Mayor Lori Lightfoot and under the previous Mayor, Rama Manual, |
| 1:41.5 | as a kind of urban playground for criminals. |
| 1:46.2 | And a remarkable, the unresponsive political system dealing with the, the torment that |
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