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Welcome to the commentary magazine, the early podcast today's

Thursday, January 19th, 2020, three, I am John Pudhord, it's the

editor of commentary magazine, urging you to go to commentary.org

and sample the contents of our February issue, our own Noah

Rothman on the worldwide COVID revolts. We have an example of

another casualty in the COVID regimes of our time, the, the

self exiling of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, one of

the heroes of the restrictive, the world of COVID restriction, who

yesterday announced that she doesn't have any more gas in the

tank. And after six years as the world's youngest or second

youngest Prime Minister, she is just resigning because she's

done, she's had it, that's it, she's over. This is like

quite quitting acceptance, very loud. Anyway, if you want to know

the kind of circumstances that led to Jacinda Ardern's

resignation, the sort of emotional, political, ideological fall

out from what's happened from COVID, read Noah Rothman's article,

the worldwide COVID revolts in our February issue at

commentary.org. Noah is here, the Arathon, associate editor,

author of the rise of the New Puritans, high Noah, hi, John, also

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