Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday February 21st 2019.

John Poghord is the editor of commentary that 70-odd year old monthly of

intellectual analysis political, property and cultural criticism from a

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last podcast we now have our March issue up on the website with fantastic

stuff all over the place John still Gordon on what makes America exceptional

Matt Contanetti on the conservatives pounce meme in the media Andy Ferguson on

Howard Schultz's salesmanship Abe Greenwald sitting next to me on Saul

Bellow's declining years Terry T. Jettin Oscar Levent Josh Morovczyk on Venezuela

Michael Mandelbaum on my game channel bound two cheers for regime change there's

something you're not gonna read anywhere else and our own Christine Rosen on

Christine wacky Instagram friendly politicians and why we should be suspicious of

them okay so that is Christine Rosen are seeing your writer of course you just

serve from a Greenwald our senior editor and across from me after his absence on

the last podcast no Rothman associate editor author of course of the book

unjust which you must go order on Amazon we have just come fresh from the

Chicago PD press conference laying out the actually didn't really lay out the

charges against okay how are we gonna pronounce his name small let but his

last name is Smolette is a Jesse or Jesse Jesse okay we're gonna say

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