Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, August 6, 2018.

I'm John Putthor. It's the editor of commentary, the 70-some odd year old,

the monthly of intellectual analysis, political,

property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you

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We are closing our September issue this week. It is a treasure trove. It is

overflowing with stuff, including the first commentary appearance of yes,

Alexander Solzhenitsen, more and that later. With us as always,

Avery Mulder, Senior Editor, Haye. Hi, John.

No arosmin, Associate Editor, Haye Noah, Haye John, and Senior Writer,

Sora Bimari. So guys, a lot of the week in the world of

journalistic Twitter and people like us and all this have been consumed with the

New York Times' hiring of the firebrand opinion writer Sarah

Jong, who's incendiary six or seven years of tweets against white people and

men and journalists who said things like the Rolling Stone story about

Sabrina Ernie about the evil Fratboy was fabricated and all sorts of

stuff. So this has been a consuming issue for this class of people.

And she's been attacked by the right and by a lot of people in the middle and

then she's been heatedly defended by people on the left on the grounds that

she deserves no criticism and cannot be criticized because as a woman and as a

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