The Liberal Economic Panic

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Yuval Levin joins today's podcast, a very special episode in which we delve deeply into a revelatory conversation between the New York Times's Ezra Klein and leading liberal economist Larry Summers—in which Klein reveals his horrified discomfort at the fact that many of the policies he thought were going to save America are instead driving us into an economic ditch. Give a listen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.5	Today is Wednesday, March 30th, 2022. I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of
0:31.4	commentary. You got a week to make your mind up about joining us in Palm Beach
0:35.6	a week from today, April 6th, late afternoon for a live taping of the
0:41.8	commentary magazine podcast. Go to commentary.org slash live podcast for more
0:46.4	details joining me then and now executive editor, A Greenwald Hyde. Hi, John.
0:52.8	Senior writer Christine Rosenhykrstein. Hi, John. Associate editor, no
0:57.5	Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. And joining us today, but not next week unless he
1:02.5	you know wants to you know fly down on his private jet. A.I. Puba scholar, author
1:11.6	of many books, commentary contributor, Yuval Levin. Hi, Yuval. Hi, John. Great to be
1:16.3	with you. So Yuval, I wanted to ask you to join us because we're going to do
1:21.9	something a little different today. There was yesterday, as a recline of the
1:29.6	New York Times founder of Vox, probably the most successful amateur
1:38.4	wonk in American history as he started a blog in the early 2000s and emerged
1:46.3	from that blog with a this company Vox that ended up with a valuation.
1:51.7	Somewhere north of $400 million basically as an something that emerged from that
1:56.8	blog and associated things. And he's a classic liberal to progressive
2:04.8	democratic aligned guy who fancies himself something of an economic and economic
2:13.0	savant. And he has a podcast now at the New York Times and the New York Times
2:19.2	runs transcripts of that podcast and his podcast that he released yesterday was
2:25.3	with Lawrence Summers head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, Treasury
2:32.6	Secretary to Bill Clinton and former president of Harvard. And I think a lot of
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