Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Tuesday September 3rd 2019.

I am John Pudhoritz the editor of commentary the 70-odd year old monthly of

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always senior editor A. Greenwald Hyab. Hyjon associate editor Noir Rothman.

Hyjon. And in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen Hykristin. So Christine as

our resident native Floridian with Hurricane Adorian moving apparently like one

mile an hour toward Florida unless it turns or something like that. My question to

you is why does anybody live in Florida? That is an existential question that I

ask myself often when I was a child and I answered it by no longer living in

Florida but it's a constant battle with nature if you live in the state the

interesting thing about this particular hurricane is how the politics of

hurricanes in Florida are vast and long-standing so there's this ongoing

debate about how much information should be shared by the governor with

residents of the state and with law enforcement and Dessanktus is now the

governor of Florida yeah he the current governor of Florida who who ran as a

pretty pro-tum guy is sharing more information from his briefings with the

public which the public likes but then his predecessor then Rick

Saturday from Florida exactly so there's always politics involved when it comes to

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