Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday, October,

11th, 2018. I am John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as

always senior editor Abe Grunwald. I am losing it today. I called Noah Seth. I

don't know what's going on. Abe Greenwald. Hello Abe. Hi, John. I work for a man

named Henry Grunwald once. Did you like him? That's that's the Freudian question

here. Well, the great story about Henry Grunwald who is the editor in chief of

time magazine is that he went to visit the offices of the newest magazine in the

time in the time ink family called TV cable week which blew through $50 million

in three months and was closed in 1983 and he went to visit the offices which were in

white planes not in midtown Manhattan and he walked through for about 15 minutes and then he

said to his aide, get me my helicopter because he'd had it on him. He couldn't take a cab,

couldn't take a car for 45 minutes from white planes to back to midtown. Back in the

time. That was Henry Grunwald. That is not his helicopter. He doesn't have a helicopter.

Not yet. Right. Okay. And associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi. I'm good. He doesn't have

a helicopter either though he could use one because his commute from New Jersey can be kind of lengthy

sometimes. Indeed. We are so our memory is not with us again today. He is often Israel. So we are

holding down the fort here at the 70 odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis political

property and cultural criticism. We invite you to join us at commentary magazine.com where we give

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we had a printing error. We had to correct at the very last minute ordinarily. They come

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