Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Friday April 16th 2021. I am John Pudhord. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine,

the 75-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political, property, and cultural criticism.

From a conservative perspective, we have our main issue up online today. We do not have

it up yet. It's not up yet. No, you're up in Mejara.

Is up. Okay. So my lead article, the air of the government is back is up and Jim Megs

article, the infrastructure bill is not about infrastructure. They're up the rest of the

issue will be up presently. And that panicked reaction came from executive editor,

A. Greenwald Hyab. I'm here and I'm ready to panic. Okay, John. That's good because,

you know, that's that's I'm about to talk about panic in a minute. Returning after a

week's vacation in sunny Florida and not dead from COVID as a result of being in Florida.

Senior I, Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi, John. How is sunny Florida? It's amazing.

It's wonderful. It's people are living their lives as if, you know, life could go on.

Yes. Great. And and in New Jersey, epicenter of COVID, we we have associate or no Rothman.

I don't know. Is it the epicenter or is Michigan the epicenter? It's like close, right?

They're like they're like neck and neck. No. Oh, not at all. Michigan's way out there.

New Jersey and New York are in the case rates are receding at this point. They were never

especially high. Right. Compared to the winter search. But anyway, hi, John. Hi, hi,

no. So let's talk about panic because, you know, there are these journalists who sort of represent

conventional opinion in its most distilled form. One of those journalists, at least in in in economics,

is Felix Salmon, who has basically had a job everywhere over the last 10 years. And it's one of

these guys who rode the bubble of of the content, boom of the of the 2010s going from place to place,

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