Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Friday June 16th 2023. I'm John butthorets the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor a greenwald hi Abe hi John.

Media commentary columnist Christine Rosenhyk Christine hi John and Washington commentary columnist Matthew continuity hi mad hi John.

We have just put to bed our July August double issue. And it is a summer books issue we have remarkable reviews in this issue Gary Saul Morrison on Joseph Epstein's brief for the novel Wilford Riley on the new biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Sally Satel on Jonathan Rosen's memoir of friendship and madness the best minds Naomi Riley on Gene Twingies generations.

They've helped me out here. I'm trying to think of because we have like seven or eight reviews we've got.

I don't want to I don't want to offend anyway Seth Mandel and Rick Richmond's book about eight personalities that shaped

Israel. And I

Again, I apologize I should have had should have listened from me but

And articles in the issue aside war not war not on the Bernie Michael but Michael war not fun on

Los Angeles lawyer on Bernie Sanders hatred of capitalism

Um and our own our own Macon netty and Christine Rosen in the in the issue but um as well as articles by Hannah Myers on the kind of related to Sally Satel's review of Jonathan Rosen on on our refusal to take seriously the need for serious reform of our criminal justice system as it relates to the mentally ill

And Talf Fortgang on two kinds of inclusion a good kind which he calls collaborative inclusion and the bad kind which he calls imposed inclusion and why one is okay and one is really really really bad.

But the lead article in this issue is by our own eight Greenwald who has a habit actually over the years of writing our July August lead article as his

Blockbuster piece. Yes, this is a revolution three years ago

Uh suggested and here we are now in July of us 2023 this piece is called the trust crisis and it is uh it will the general approach of the piece will not come as a surprise to regular listeners of the podcast as it deals with the question of what it means to live in an America that is increasingly becoming what you might call it

a low trust

society with with

vast numbers of people on both sides of the political spectrum

feeling

skeptical to outright hostile to the

institutions traditions

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