The Crisis-as-Opportunity Mongers

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In a time of pandemic, the COMMENTARY podcast is here for you. During the acute crisis, the podcast will be producing episodes every weekday. Today, the hosts discuss the efforts of those who want to utilize this moment of national concern to advance their parochial policy objectives. Source

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast.
0:27.1	We are going to try something new.
0:29.9	For the balance of the crisis, if people enjoy it and it seems like we have enough to say,
0:37.2	we're going to go daily with the podcast.
0:39.4	We're going to try to do it in the mornings and release it around noon.
0:43.8	They'll be shorter than the usual podcast has been.
0:48.0	But we figure that we don't have anything else to do and you may not have anything else to do.
0:55.6	And maybe this is a way of keeping community and keeping ourselves sane as things are apparently
1:04.2	just going to get worse before they get better in the coronavirus troubles that we all find ourselves in.
1:12.0	So I am of course John Pajor.
1:13.5	It's the editor of commentary.
1:15.2	Today is Tuesday, March 17th, otherwise known as...
1:20.9	Same Patrick's Day.
1:22.4	But there are no parades which for some of us is a...
1:26.9	Here in New York is a strange, unanticipated blessing of the fact that the city is now ghost town.
1:37.0	With me as always, Abe Greenwald, our senior editor, Hi Abe.
1:42.1	Hi John.
1:42.8	In his home in New Jersey, no, a Rothman, Hi Noah.
1:46.4	Hi John.
1:47.2	And in her home in Washington DC, senior writer, Christine Rosen, Hi Christine.
1:51.6	Hi John.
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