Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Wednesday, August 18, 2021. I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of Commentary

Magazine. We have our September issue up and available for your perusal at commentary.org

where we give you a few free reads and ask you to subscribe and you know you should subscribe.

So go subscribe. You really ought to. It's one way you can support the podcast if you, if

that's the main element of your enjoyment of commentary.

But we have a remarkable issue up one of our biggest in years, 72 pages in print with

Yuval Evans masterful article we talked about yesterday on what we got right in the COVID

fight, our own Christine Rosen, two pieces in the same issue, one on the question of whether

there's going to be a parents movement in the United States and the other about the continuing

war on objectivity on the part of the mainstream media. We have Joseph Epstein writing about

cats for those of you who love cats and I'm not talking about the musical cats. We'll

talk about a lot more that we have have in the issue Ed Kozener on the 30 year anniversary

of the Crown Heights program. Brendan Stewart on the 20th anniversary of 9-11 and the efforts

to retcon 9-11 into an American imperialist aggressive act or something that that was

conveniently used by American imperialists to in the in the minds of leftist journalists

to allow America to work its imperialist will and why this is an evil idea as we can see

we're about to talk about with Afghanistan. Right now, Noah Rothman picked one thing that

happened in the last 12 hours that particularly horrified you, surprised you were called to

want one incident because we have incidents all day for the you know in the 24-hour since

we talked last. Yeah, just one. That's a struggle. Well, we're going to keep it. It's actually

not. It's actually not. Can we just pull it up because I want the exact wording. And

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