Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday April 17th, 2023.

I am John Pudhord's the editor of commentary magazine. I commend to you are may issue online at commentary.org

with a brilliant lead piece called the return of paganism by liel, leave of its pieces by our own Matt Contnetti, Christine Rosen, Jim Megz,

you heard talk about his piece about recining the lab leak lies last week. Adam White on James Rosen's book on Nino Scalia.

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archives. So with that, let me introduce a green walled executive editor, hi Abe.

Hi John and thanks.

Christine Rosen are media commentary columnists and American Enterprise Institute fellow high

Christine. Hi John.

And Matthew Contanetti are tech, not tech are watching. Can you come and fix my?

Can you? What is Jack to share? I'm the information systems support.

Just wait until they are also. Yes, also the founding editor of the Washington freebiegan and many

other things I'm at. Hi, John. We got a lot to talk about. So the Jack the aforementioned Jack

to share will be arraigned, I think on Wednesday, he was actually taken into custody and did not plead

like there's something we don't know. We don't know where he's going to come out on this and how he's

going to how he's going to react in and also is a military court is a foot. We don't know. We don't

actually know what's going to go on with him. But a lot of interesting developments in relation to

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