The Left’s Activist Problem

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the last of the week’s COMMENTARY podcasts, Abe Greenwald and Noah Rothman (John Podhoretz returns on Monday) explore the rising radicalization of the liberal left and the Democratic Party’s efforts to rein in its more self-destructive impulses. Also, North Korea’s provocative missile launch leads to increasing resignation to the nuclearization of Japan, but few have considered the pitfalls... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is August 31st, 2017.
0:29.1	I'm Noah Rothman with me as always is our senior editor, A Greenwald.
0:34.3	I know it.
0:35.6	John is out at an undisclosed location and a domestic sort of facility with his family
0:43.0	enjoying himself and we will leave it at that.
0:45.5	He will be back next week.
0:46.5	Actually domestic facility sounds suddenly very suspicious.
0:49.6	I mean, that's true.
0:51.6	Minimum security.
0:52.6	Don't worry about him.
0:54.2	He's doing just fine.
0:56.5	Come and join us on commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and then we
1:00.4	ask you to subscribe 1995 gives you a digital subscription 2995 gives you an all access
1:06.0	subscription and are beautiful monthly print magazine in your mailbox join us at commentarymagazine.com.
1:11.7	Well, you can read me as well as many other luminaries in the field of cultural and political
1:17.5	analysis.
1:18.5	It's worth your time.
1:20.1	We're going to begin today with a little story that is not being covered to the extent
1:26.2	that it should be, which is the forthcoming corruption trial of New Jersey Senator
1:32.2	Bob Manandez.
1:35.3	We're not going to talk too much about it because there's not a lot to talk about, but this
1:38.8	week the prosecutors put forward their allegations against the senator and they are eye popping.
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