Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Monday June 22nd 2020. Welcome to summer. I am John Pothoritz, the editor of

commentary magazine, the 70-odd-year-old monthly event election analysis, political

property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you

as always to join us at commentary magazine.com where we give you a few free

reads and ask you to subscribe. Our July August issue is up on Friday if you were

listening and our largest podcast audience yet was on listening and listened to

us over the weekend with Wilfred Riley, the author of our cover story America

run. Riot, three commentary, three authors of important articles in the issue are

with me today. For example, senior editor Abe Greenwald author of our

editor's letter, we must stop the great unraveling which is creating an

internet sensation Abe Greenwald-High Abe. Hi John. Christine Rosen author of

two articles in the issue one on the policy of liberals never letting a crisis

go to waste and the other on the cancel culture of American journalism and

the virtue signaling and death of the efforts of objectivity. Christine Rosen

our senior writer, Hykristine. Hi John. And no, Rosman with the most controversial

article we published in quite a while the war on vaping and an article about why

vaping actually was a remarkably successful smoking cessation tool that has

now become that just got in the crosshairs of the other virtue signolars and

possibly the tobacco companies that wish to make sure that it did not take up

too much of their market. Associate editor Noir Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. Thank

you for shielding me from all the hate mail. Yeah sorry. You're you're screwed. The

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