The Conspiracists Have Their Day

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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James B. Meigs joins the podcast to talk about the DC plane-helicopter collision and what it tells us about disasters, after which we examine the RFK-Gabbard-Patel confirmation hearings and what they tell us about the state of conspiracy theorizing in the United States. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.3	Welcome to the Comment magazine podcast. Today is Friday, January 31st, 20, 25. We've made it through one month of what promises to be one of the most disruptive political years in American history. I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of
1:12.5	Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor, Aide Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John.
1:18.1	Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mendel. Hi, Seth.
1:24.9	Hi, John. And joining us today, our tech commentary, columnist, veteran journalist,
1:32.0	uh, contributor to the city journal and all around wise man James B. Megs. Hi, Jim. Hi, John. Good to be back.
1:40.1	So speaking as an all around wise man, Jim, a couple of interesting things that have been going on that are, that sadly or tragically are in your wheelhouse.
1:50.3	We have a disaster. We have several disasters. Disasters being a subject that Jim has written about frequently in his column and commentary.
2:00.4	We, of course, had the wildfires,
2:01.8	which we did not get a chance to talk to about, and of course this midair collision a couple of
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