500 Episodes and Reckoning with Meritocracy

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The COMMENTARY podcast takes a look back at where it all began on this, the 500th episode. Also, an exploration of the demands for social leveling inherent in ideas promoted by those advocating a national racial reconciliation and why they may have a point. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday June 25th, 2020.
0:30.0	I am John Pudhordz, the editor of commentary magazine and you are listening today to the 500th
0:37.5	commentary magazine podcast.
0:41.6	This we began, no arothman, what date did we begin podcasting?
0:48.0	February 4th 2016.
0:51.0	Right, we began with just Noah and me and then I think on our seventh show Abe Greenwald
1:00.3	Hyab.
1:01.3	Hi John.
1:02.5	Join us later, Sora Bimari on staff of commentary for a year, a little more was a regular
1:12.4	and our first guest on the commentary magazine podcast later became a regular and then
1:21.6	a staff member of commentary senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.
1:26.5	Hi, the guest to overstate.
1:28.5	That's right.
1:29.5	So yeah, Christine joined us permanently in December of 2018 and it was I believe at the beginning
1:38.2	of March, somewhere in March that we went from twice weekly to daily to deal with the
1:46.7	news of the virus and the result I have to say seemed to confirm the validity of supply
1:54.7	side economics or rather the field of dreams theory that if you build it, they will come
2:01.6	because since we began the daily podcast, our audience has tripled and we have just received
2:11.0	numbers from a podcast measurement firm called Chartable that tells me that we are in a category
2:20.8	they call USA News Trending.
2:24.5	We are the number one trending podcast in the United States.
2:29.0	We are the 15th largest podcast in terms of USA News Reach.
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