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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Will the Gun Deal Go Through? Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Break Through?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast explores the political ramifications of the gun legislation that seems to have had a bipartisan breakthrough in the Senate, and also considers the horrifying details laid out in yesterday's hearing on the January 6 riot. Give a listen.

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0:24.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday June 22nd 2022.

0:29.4

I'm John Boutor, it's the editor of commentary once again,

0:33.4

commending to your attention or July August issue at commentary.org.

0:38.6

We talked yesterday about Noah Rothman's spectacular cover piece. You are what you don't eat.

0:44.8

But let me let me tell you about some other stuff in the issue. We have a fantastic piece by Jim

0:49.6

Megs or tech commentary columnist on Biden's obsession with electric cars and why electric cars

0:55.6

aren't the panesia that he and so many people on the left think they are. We have

1:02.2

Christine Rosen pointing out that the mainstream media are now

1:08.4

are now highlighting the consequences of the pandemic on children without any reckoning of their own

1:15.4

role in furthering the interests of the people who actually ruin the lives of children and teenagers

1:22.6

during the pandemic and acting as though somehow the media were not complicit in the policies

1:29.5

that led to such unfavorable mental health and educational outcomes.

1:35.1

We have Tom Lindbergh on the fascinating question of whether or not the increasingly bloody struggle

1:41.1

in Ukraine has had the consequence of saving the idea of the West

1:46.9

which was coming a cropper and coming apart over the last decade. Adam White on a very important

1:55.9

topic raining in the bureaucrats there is going to be a major Supreme Court decision any day

2:03.1

on matters relating to the administrative state and he talks about how litigation is increasingly

2:10.4

or Supreme Court and the public court litigation is increasingly raising the question of whether or not

2:16.7

it's okay for executive branch, unelected executive branch officials to be making

2:23.8

policy that really should be made by legislative bodies. My sister Ruthie Boulou making her

2:31.2

made an appearance in commentary as an author of a feature on the distortion surrounding the death of

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