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We're Opening the Mailbag

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JL;DR SUMMARY The Commentary Magazine Podcast team tackles a variety of listener questions in a special mailbag episode, addressing topics ranging from Donald Trump's inaction on entitlement reform to the portrayal of America's virtues by liberals. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Latin AmericaTrumpCold WarJewish SolidarityPolitical PartiesInvasive SpeciesGerrymanderingEntitlement ReformLiberal PatriotismLantern Flies

Places mentioned

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"So I'm going to begin with a letter from Tom Shattuck of Boston, Massachusetts."
Evington, Virginia, United States
"Katie Hacker of Evington, Virginia."
Texas, United States
"But I think it's politics. He looked at the Paul Ryan plan and Mitt Romney choosing Paul Ryan to be his running mate in 2012 and that ticket going down."
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