Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday April 21st, 2023.

I'm John Pothor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A Greenwald Hyab. Hi John. Washington commentary columnist and American enterprise Institute

fellow Matthew Kahnetti. Hi, Matt. Hi John. Christine Rosen is out today. I'm happy

to report. I learned this morning from Twitter that the paperback edition of Matthew Kahnetti's

the right of 100 year battle for is an American conservatism or just conservatism. American

conservatism is now in his hands and can be in your hands if you want to go to Amazon or

Barnes and Noble or whatever and order it with a new update with a forward. No, it's an

afterward. An afterward not a fool that kind of carries the story through the 2022 midterm

elections. You know, the maybe the problem with with writing contemporary history is

you know, as soon as you're done updating, you have to update again because a lot has

happened even in the six months since the 22 midterm election. But the book which is very

attractive. I recommend everyone buy at least two copies does take the story through the semi

disappointing results for Republicans last year. Maybe the best reviewed book on the not only

about the right, but on the right published last year. So that's Matt Kahnetti's the right.

Speaking of the right and how much we criticize our own side and are disappointed about our own

side, we have to it's good to be reminded every now and then of what we're battling not only

in the most profound ideological sense, like the redefinition of what it means to be a human being

and what it means to be a man or a woman. But even in just the attitude of liberal governance when

it comes to supposedly helping people and how to use the levers of power to help people by putting

a greater burden on people who are already helping themselves. And I'm referring to this

banking rule that is apparently about to be imposed on May 1st that will literally charge people

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