The Great Mysteries of 2022

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Democrats find themselves increasingly confounded by the mysteries of political life in 2022. Where did all the gun crime come from? What’s the Republican Party’s plan to address inflation? Why can't Joe Biden manifest his will like the Green Lantern? It’s all an irresolvable riddle, especially when you have no intention of solving it.

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0:00.0	music
0:24.2	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today may 11th 2022 I'm
0:29.8	Noah Rothman and with us as always is senior writer Christine
0:34.8	Rosen, I know a executive editor a brainwalled I A.B. I know John is
0:41.3	still out, but we are in the saddle as always before we begin in a
0:46.5	illustrious show full of stuff we've definitely prepared because we've
0:50.1	spent a lot of time preparing today promise you'll see a quick note
0:54.5	yesterday we ended the show with a series of shameless plugs
0:57.9	hawking our wares mine in particular my forthcoming book coming out
1:02.0	and just said you know give it a give a shot pre-order if you could I've
1:05.7	really appreciated it matters a lot to the publishers and you guys really
1:08.6	delivered when I checked Amazon yesterday morning the book which isn't even
1:13.4	out yet so it's expected was somewhere around like 400,000 in the books that
1:18.2	exist on Amazon and as of this morning it was around 12,000 that's a lot of
1:23.5	movement and it's all due to you listeners so pat yourselves in the back I
1:28.9	really appreciate it and why we will never let our advertisers or anyone else
1:33.2	forget the extent to which this show moves units which is a big deal I really
1:39.3	appreciate it. I want to start I suppose with yesterday's speech by
1:44.4	President Joe Biden we got a brief we got a brief preview of it via the
1:51.4	Reuters news service it was a political speech it was billed as a political
1:56.8	speech it was all about inflation but the Biden administration's intention
2:01.6	now is to stop focusing on the gimmicky piecemeal efforts they're doing to
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