Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Thursday, July 15th, 2021. I am John Puthhordz, the editor of Commentary

Magazine Returning to our microphones. It's Senior writer Christine Rosen,

Hi Christine. Hi John. Having spent two days away doing a chat talk,

and if you don't know what that means, you haven't read enough history of self

help in America in 19th century entertainment. This is a big thing that happened in

19th century entertainment, which were lengthy speeches by important people

given in giant amphitheaters, in particular in upstate New York. And there you

were, and what were you speaking on? I was speaking about free speech and

cancel culture. It was really fun. It was actually an honor to be invited. It's

a wonderful audience of people who some of whom go for the summer and stay and

listen to all sorts of different speakers and do all kinds of activities. It was

a lot of fun. I enjoyed myself a lot. And of course, here holding down the

fort with Christine Gone and back with us today as ever, executive editor, a

Greenwald Hyab. Hi John. And associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hi Noah. Hi John. So

I don't even know where to begin. There seems to be yet again one of these

overly elaborate theories of political gamesmanship according to which the

Democrats are playing for dimensional chess. Once again, with Bernie Sanders

disingenuously demanding $6 trillion in budget spending so that it can look

moderate for Biden to come out with three and a half Biden and Schumer. And the

Democrats have come up with three and a half trillion dollars in budget spending.

So Bernie doesn't really mean it and he knows perfectly well that three and a half

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