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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The Mechanics of ‘Popularism'

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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A discussion about the lingering and unknowable negative health effects of mid-pandemic mitigation measures that may not even be fully visible to us for years. Also, the center-left’s new obsession with the political strategist David Shor and his prescription for Democratic success: “popularism.”... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday October 13th, 2020

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on one I am John Puthwords the editor of commentary magazine here to tell you that our November

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issue we are closing today and we'll be sending to the printer and we are very proud of it.

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It's one of the best issues we've ever done. It is a special issue dedicated to wokeness,

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woke the threat is the overall portmanteau for the package. Some of the articles in it

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include Sam Abrams and Jack Worthheimer on the woke threat to America's Jews Wilford

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Riley on the whiteness of wokeness David Zucker the director of airplane and the writer

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of airplane and the director of scary movie and other great comic masterpieces on the

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threat to comedy from wokeness we have Michael J Lewis of Williams College on the language

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of wokeness we have Barry Weiss on what needs to be done to combat wokeness I'm sure I'm leaving

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a couple of petevi Troy on medicine and wokeness and Jim Megs on the original woke the original

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expose of wokeness from an academic setting Alan Sokol's famous hoax article about how gravity

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is a construct from 1996 and how and how it he won the battle because everybody recognized

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the thing that he was making fun of and lost the war because everything that he was making fun

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of has come to pass in the 25 years since anyway we're going to be talking about it over the

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course of the next month hopefully we'll have a bunch of the writers of these pieces on the

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podcast to talk about their specific findings and their specific analyses this some that should be

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up maybe later today maybe tomorrow I commend it to your attention at commentary dot org where we

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give you a few free read and ask you to subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet subscribe to read

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woke the threat I can't stress this enough this is remarkable stuff that we've produced here and

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that you really need to read the person who is shepherding that into print is my colleague executive

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