Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Thursday, April 15th, 2021. It is not tax day. Tax day has been postponed for a month.

At least one knew that the odds of April were the most nightmarish day of the calendar year for many people.

And now that has apparently been been postponed because of the pandemic. So it's just another ordinary day.

I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor,

a Greenwald Hy-Abe. Hi John. Associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hy-Noah.

Hi John. Christine Rosen still out and joining us today is National Affairs Editor and American Enterprise Institute,

Panjandrum, Yuval Levin. Thanks for coming Yuval. Thanks for being here.

You didn't come anywhere except to your own basement I think. That's true. Thanks for coming to my basement.

You're very welcome. And Yuval, you wrote a piece for Commentary in 2016 that formed one of the

formative ideas, let's say, of your most recent book. And the piece was called Congress's Week

because its members want it to be. And right now we were just discussing how the Democratic

Congress, the theory of that piece was that Republicans in particular are using Congress as a platform

rather than as a body to get things done, to make themselves stars. And we can go into some of that.

But we were just discussing how you have the smallest margin in recent political history

in the House, Democrats up by five or six in the House depending on how you count it.

And yet they are going absolutely hog wild with legislation. We have just today, we hear they

are going to put up a bill to expand the Supreme Court to 13 from nine.

Various other things we should get to in detail. So I'm wondering is the Congress's week

because its members wanted to be a species of Republican governance because of course the

Republican Republican Party does not is not like in love with legislation and doing lots of things.

But that this is not true of the Democrats who want institutionally to take Congress and use

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