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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday October 12, 2022.

I am John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always

executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Abe is the author of a brilliant review of

Senator Tom Cotton's new book in the November issue of commentary which should be going up at

some point online in the next 24 hours or so along with media commentary columnist and AI

fellow Christine Rosen's piece in the November issue which is about Christine. About a what seem

to be a mild kerfuffle at the Los Angeles Times but turned into a sort of fascinating story about

how a billionaire newspaper owners woke daughter wreaked havoc at a hometown newspaper.

And about in general the fact that as has often been the case in history that newspapers are the

province of wealthy men who want to have influence in the communities that they live in but in

this case this is a wealthy man who decided he wanted his he wanted to give his daughter a little

playground to play in and she started scoring around with the LA Times coverage of crime and race

and other things. So it's a fascinating story. Hi Christine. Hi John. And associate editor and

author of the rise of the New Purins. Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. Joe Biden went on the inaugural

episode of Jake Tapper's show 9 o'clock PM show on CNN that is the replacement for Chris

Squamos long running show. And I think we can all be comforted by the fact that the president of

the United States said no there's not a recession. Every six months they say there's going to be

a recession but there hasn't been a recession but if there is a recession it'll be a very

a slight recession. I just want to remind people that according to the what has been the standard

definition of recession we were we were in recession in the second quarter of 2022.

We had two straight quarters of negative economic growth from the time that I was a lad that's all

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