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welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast the final podcast of 2021

Today is Friday, December 31st, New Year's Eve. I am John Pauldhorts, the editor of Commentary

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executive editor, a green walled hype. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen,

heikrstein. Hi John and associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi John. So this week we have talked about

movies that we wanted to recommend books wanted to recommend TV we wanted to recommend.

Now I can't remember what the fourth was. Holiday holiday holiday holiday holiday stuff we wanted

to recommend. Today we want to talk about culture and I'm slightly more political context.

Vizavi the culture war. You know how liberals like to say that there isn't a culture war and the

conservatives are the only ones who say that there's a culture war. And of course this is the

ultimate act of gaslighting because the culture war is being fought by the left against the right

and against uh sort of American norms and bourgeois norms and Western norms and that is the major

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