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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday January 14th 2022. I am John

Pudhorex the editor of commentary to our surprise nor Rothman back a day earlier than we thought

was I was in back next week but here he is associate editor no Rothman high Noah. Hello

happy to be back uh senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi John executive editor

Abe Greenwald hi Abe hi John and joining us today tech commentary columnist and longtime

magazine editor uh savvy New York publishing guy James B. Max hi Jim nice to be back I uh I bring up

Jim's long experience in magazines because we are sitting here reeling from the unexpected untimely

and tragic death of our longtime colleague Terry teach out commentaries critic at large um who uh

passed away uh totally unexpectedly in his in in in his sleep at 11 a.m. Thursday morning um just a

few weeks shy of his 66th birthday. Terry uh has been a monthly contributor to commentary for a quarter

century which makes him the most prolific contributor to the magazine in its 76 year history serving as

its classical music and music critic for the first 13 years of his tenure as a monthly contributor

and then since my ascension as editor in 2009 is critic at large writing essentially about the

history of of American popular culture and with a focus on the individuals um who uh performed it

wrote it conceived it created it and promulgated it and um his uh breadth of knowledge his

uh incredibly capacious taste um his interest in uh low middle and high his interesting defense as an

s-thete of the uh of the right that we should all have to enjoy uh and and profit from and be illuminated

by art without reference to our politics or you know the political concerns of the present moment

um uh he was an extraordinary a person a person of whom you you will find and if you go on to

social media you will find uh it almost impossible to find anyone who has a bad word to say about

Terry uh even Steve Martin tweeted out something about how um uh Terry was a a wonderful writer and

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