Turning Up the Temperature

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Tech commentary columnist James B. Meigs joins the program to break down Thursday’s congressional hearing on Silicon Valley. How consolidation in the tech world makes disasters more likely. Also, Barack Obama’s politicized eulogy for the late Rep. John Lewis and his naked effort to raise the temperature on a nation already near the boiling point. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is the last day of July the 31st
0:29.5	2020 I am John Pajor it's the editor of commentary the 70 out-year-old monthly intellectual analysis
0:35.3	Political probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us at commentary magazine.com
0:41.0	We'll give you a few free reads and we ask you to subscribe
0:45.6	Christine Rosen is out this week with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald hi Abe hi John
0:52.4	Associated editor no Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John and joining us today tech commentary columnist
0:59.6	James B. Meigs Jim thanks for joining us second time on the podcast. How are you? I'm doing great. Happy to be here great
1:06.9	so
1:08.2	we we will turn to Jim's
1:12.3	Very original writings on these matters of tech in a moment, but first I think it is incumbent upon us given
1:22.8	the
1:23.6	Prashing and we delivered yesterday to the president and his
1:29.7	Insane
1:31.2	postponed the election tweet
1:33.8	To shift gears and then talk about his predecessor Barack Obama's eulogy for John Lewis
1:41.4	at the Ebenezer Baptist Church
1:44.7	Once again a wonderful liberal event where nobody was mysteriously
1:49.9	put in the position of having to socially distance
1:55.1	Because of course it being a
1:57.8	Funeral attribute
2:00.1	Everyone could be within six feet of one another while in many states
2:04.5	No one is it people are still not allowed to have
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