What Are You, Crazy?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today's podcast asks whether the people who really decide elections—the ones in the middle—look at partisans and ideologues on both sides and ask whether their visions and descriptions of American life as it is lived day to day are accurate or bonkers. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:24.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.1	Today's Thursday, August eleventh, 2022.
0:29.8	I am John Puthore, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always, executive editor
0:35.2	Abe Greenwald.
0:36.2	Hi Abe.
0:37.2	Hi John.
0:38.2	Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen, Hi Christine.
0:42.2	Hi John.
0:43.4	An associate editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans, no arosment, I know
0:48.1	I.
0:49.1	Hi John.
0:51.1	So, we're kind of dealing with the same stories we've been dealing with all week.
0:58.9	We have, we have Trump in the fallout, not only from his, the raid, Amar Alago, but
1:09.7	he is taking the fifth in the case regarding his taxes in New York.
1:16.1	We have the Inflation Reduction Act and a growing controversy over the empowerment of the IRS
1:26.2	to collect hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue to offset the cost of the climate
1:32.2	change provisions in the bill, thus allowing it to be named the Inflation Reduction Act.
1:40.2	And not that we've been talking about it, but the simultaneous word that the Iran nuclear
1:47.0	deal is back on the table in a big way in negotiations even as we have an indictment of an Iranian
1:58.8	agent for the attempted or planning of the assassination of our old friend, commentary
2:06.5	contributor and former national security adviser John Bolton as well as news that former
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