Attacks and a Tax
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the best. |
| 0:07.0 | Expect the words. |
| 0:10.0 | Some drink and pain. |
| 0:12.0 | Some die of birds. |
| 0:14.0 | The way of knowing which way it's going. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh for the best. |
| 0:19.0 | Expect the worst. Oh for the best. Welcome to the Comment and spend the worst. |
| 0:20.9 | Oh, for the best. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. |
| 0:25.5 | Today is Tax Day, April 15th, 20206. |
| 0:30.3 | Do people even think about this as Tax Day there? |
| 0:32.6 | It was once one of the biggest days of the year. |
| 0:36.6 | Like people would, I remember driving to the post office before midnight. |
| 0:41.7 | There would be a huge traffic jam around the central post office in Washington, D.C., so that everybody could get their tax form in stamped with the thing before 11.59 p.m. |
| 0:53.2 | I get the sense that this, because most people file electronically |
| 0:56.8 | now, or at least enough people file electronically, that this isn't even an issue anymore. But it was |
| 1:01.8 | such a big day. And here it is. It's tax day again today. But maybe it's, this is just like a |
| 1:08.4 | relic of a previous hysterical time. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm John Pod Hort. |
| 1:12.4 | It's the editor of Commentary here on Tax Day with Executive Editor, Abe Greenwald. |
| 1:17.6 | Hi, Abe. |
| 1:18.4 | Hi, John. |
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