The Search for Strategy

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Has the state of lockdown become a strategy for coping with the pandemic in the absence of any real substantive guidance from public officials? The COMMENTARY podcast discusses the backlash against those who question lockdown orthodoxy and asks if those voices have a compelling and rational point? Also, a bit of background on Noah Rothman. Source

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0:00.0	This is one by one
0:30.0	where it's the editor of Commentary Magazine, the 70-odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,
0:35.4	probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective we invite you to join us at CommentaryMagasing.com
0:42.1	where we give you a few free reads and then ask you to subscribe now more than ever.
0:47.8	With me as always, Senior Editor Abe Reenwald, hi Abe.
0:51.5	Hi John.
0:52.5	Senior writer Christine Rose and Hi Christine.
0:55.2	Hi John.
0:56.0	And associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.
0:58.5	Hi John.
0:59.5	So we are experiencing some technical difficulties today.
1:04.8	I hope everything will be fine probably if we have the technical difficulties.
1:10.2	I think we're having you won't even hear me saying this because it means that we won't actually be taping the program.
1:16.2	Noah is shaking.
1:17.0	He's headed me remotely over Skype.
1:19.1	He's giving me a thumbs up.
1:20.4	So forget the whole, forget I said anything as Rich Lowry says on the editor's podcast.
1:26.8	Excuse me a second.
1:28.5	Okay now, Ari Schoenman of the New Atlantis, Christine's old colleague at the New Atlantis,
1:37.8	who has, who is, shall we say, somewhat apocalyptic about the coronavirus and its effects and planning and all of that,
1:47.4	made a point last night on Twitter that I thought it was valuable to explore.
1:55.6	Our other old colleague, our old colleague, Bethany Mandel, got herself into a host of controversy yesterday on the Twitter's by saying,
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