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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

When Crime Gets Close to You

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The podcasters today consider crime up close and personal—yesterday I was in proximity to four different acts of violence and another was nearly burglarized. Is there a larger meaning to these actions? Do they connect somehow to the president’s seeming acceptance of the harassment of Kyrsten Sinema? And how are we to understand them in light of the Justice Department’s decision to focus on... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the commentary, magazine,

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the early podcast today is Tuesday, October 5th, 2021.

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I am John Pottcourt, the editor of commentary with me as always, executive editor,

0:34.0

a greenwald hi-ape.

0:35.0

Hi, John.

0:36.0

Senior writer, Christine Rosen,

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hi, Christine.

0:39.0

Hi, John.

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And associate editor, Noah Rothman,

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hi, Noah.

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Hi, John.

0:44.0

You know, the,

0:45.0

anecdote, you know, data is the plural of anecdote.

0:50.0

So two of the four of us have some anecdotes that I think will,

0:55.0

take it together, offer a perspective on what's going on in America right now.

1:01.0

Granted, the anecdotes were about to tell involve things happening in,

1:06.0

in big major cities, not in suburbs, not in small towns.

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So you can take that with a grain of salt.

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I'll just start with my own.

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Our offices are just south of Times Square in, in what's called the garment center.

1:22.0

We are about 50 feet from one of the entrances to the Times Square subway station,

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