Was Life Better 50 Years Ago?

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today's podcast takes up a Pew Research poll showing a majority of Americans believe things were better 50 years ago than they are now. Why would people say this about a time when America was sunk in a losing war, living under wage and price controls, and dealing with Watergate and an oil embargo? And in our new "Commentary Recommends" feature, I make the case you should read Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:22.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.
0:24.8	Today is Friday, May 5, 2023.
0:27.2	I am John Pauldhorns, the editor of commentary magazine with me is always executive editor
0:31.6	A Greenwald.
0:32.6	I Abe.
0:33.6	John.
0:34.6	Matt Kahnetti is out today.
0:36.3	Back with us is media commentary columnist and American enterprise institute senior fellow
0:41.2	Christine Rosen, high Christine.
0:42.6	Hi John.
0:43.6	Oh, I don't know what to talk about today.
0:47.6	So I'm going to default instead of sort of chasing the news.
0:51.2	I'm going to default to something that one Benjamin Carlson put on Twitter today, which
0:58.2	I found stunning and fascinating.
1:01.6	A Pew survey from March in which a majority of Americans say that life today in 2023 is
1:14.7	worse than it was half a century ago in 1973.
1:21.8	First of all, I just want to say that since a Christine Rosen was born in 1973,
1:27.4	this is a terrible infamy because obviously life on earth is better because Christine
1:32.7	Rosen is with us.
1:34.5	But I assured in an apocalypse of sorts.
1:36.4	Clearly.
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