Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Podcast.

Today is the 12th of April 2018.

I am John Pudhortz, the editor of Commentary, the 70-some-odd year old monthly of intellectual

analysis, political, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.

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Your mailbox, 11 times a year, we are closing our May issue tomorrow with a lead article

by the Lying Propagandist tool of the political class, Noisee Rothman, late of an encounter

with Tucker Carlson on his television show last night, having written a... an unfriendly

piece about Tucker Carlson's decision to adopt as his view of the potential war in

Syria, the notion that somebody else other than the Syrian regime might have used chemical

weapons in Gouda, Tucker invited Noah on this.

I should say this is a deeply painful moment for me personally, because 20-some-odd years

ago I hired Tucker Carlson, first major job to work as a writer at the weekly standard

and of course three years ago now or two, three, two.

I hired Noah Rothman to be a writer here at Commentary.

And so I feel like the old college dean, the old college mentor who is a writer, who

is seeing his young protégés squabbling and all he wants is for there to be peace,

shallom by peace in the house, but there will be no peace in this house.

So that's of course Noah Rothman or Associate Editor, Hi Noah.

Hi John.

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