A Bridge Colby Too Far?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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A full house today takes up Pete Hegseth's speech on American defense and the national security strategy document released by the administration—Good? Bad? Ugly? And how about that New York Times story revealing the way the Biden administration self-destructed on immigration? Plus, I recommend (with the provisos that it's very very very long and very very very violent) Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair—a merger of his two Kill Bill films from 20 years ago. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	well for the best expect the worst some drink some drink champagne some die of
0:13.7	no way of knowing which way it's going oh Oh, for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.3	Oh, for the best.
0:24.9	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:28.2	Today is Monday, December 8th, 2025.
0:31.2	And we are brought to you today by our friends at the University of Austin, also known as UATX.
0:39.2	Look, you know you've been excited by the creation of this brand new university since you
0:46.4	heard about it a couple of years ago.
0:48.8	Imagine a university, a place where students turn down the University of Chicago, my alma mater, and flee Columbia's Hamas rallies to read great books,
1:00.0	both the great source of the reputations of the University of Chicago and Columbia, the great books courses,
1:06.5	in small seminars where they discuss the Bible and politics with commentary contributors like
1:12.9	Leah Leibovitz and Mike Durran and apprentice with America's top entrepreneurs.
1:18.1	This place exists.
1:20.6	Our friend Barry Weiss co-founded it.
1:22.8	We're talking about the University of Austin, UATX.
1:25.7	While Harvard hands out A's like candy,
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