A Statement of Purpose

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The COMMENTARY podcast expounds upon the principles set forth in a rare editor’s letter published in the upcoming issue of the magazine: “We Must Stop the Great Unraveling.” A political and legal philosophy that reduces individuals to the categories they were assigned at birth and treats them as representatives of a collective has once again risen to the fore. It must be stopped. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday June 16th 2020.
0:28.9	I am John Puthworth the editor of commentary magazine with me as always senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:35.7	Hi, John.
0:37.2	Senior writer Christine Rosen.
0:39.4	Hi, Christine.
0:40.5	Hi, John.
0:41.6	And associate editor and a Rothman high nela.
0:45.2	Hi, John.
0:46.2	We begin today with the editor's commentary that we have published that we are publishing
0:54.7	on our July August issue, which is now up on our website entitled We Must Stop the Great
1:02.6	Unraveling drafted by our own Abe Greenwald.
1:06.6	I want to read part of it to you guys.
1:09.7	I've never really done this before, but this is a statement of principles and a purpose
1:14.9	that I'd like to share with you.
1:17.1	I hope you'll go read it.
1:18.1	I hope you will share it with as many people as possible.
1:22.3	So I'll begin across the United States.
1:24.4	A great unraveling is in progress, a rolling crime wave.
1:28.8	Under the guise of social activism has left city after American city shattered and smoldering.
1:34.6	Armed anarchists have seized territory inside Seattle with the blessing of local government.
1:39.4	In Minneapolis and other cities, a campaign to infeal or eliminate the police has gained
1:43.7	full legitimacy.
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