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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday December 13th 2021.

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I'm so excited to talk about the topic of and Sv Wolfe who I met last night and who are just a it's very important that I do this because they can't decide whether they like our podcast better or Ben Shapiro's podcast better and so in a in a in a direct assault on Ben's popularity.

So I'm in order to win this small skirmish and otherwise unwinnable war with our with our good friend Ben Shapiro with me as always executive editor a brainwalled high a.

John senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi John associate editor Noah Rossman high Noah hi John.

So we want to talk today at some length but I think maybe we'll try to just talk about whatever's in the political ferment first but we want to talk about Christine's lead article in the January commentary which should be up online now or what time you're listening to this called the new massage and a very important very original piece and very provocative about the ways in which trans trans ideology.

And now, is now sort of becoming something that early, early feminists early supporters of equal rights for women and egalitarian standards between women and men who would never conceivably recognize the kind of abolition of

as a as a as a genuine Stark human category. So we will we'll go into that in a

bit. Once again, I think we find ourselves in the Omicron situation where the

entire world is going bananas. Britain is like locking down. Boris Johnson is

an apparently a heap of trouble because of the discovery that that he threw

an unmasked party at Christmas time last year when they basically cancelled

Christmas like Alan Rickman and Robin Hood Prince of thieves. The sheriff of

Nottingham cancelling Christmas and yet he decided that you know the student

applied to him. I don't know what is and what is not

survivable in a country like that. That's pretty pretty bad and the idea that

he would attempt to respond to this by cracking down on human interaction in

England because of Omicron. I don't know. I'm a very amused by Boris. I

you know I'm I think I've told this anecdote once that when I met him he's

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