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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Contributing editor Jonathan Schanzer joins us on this episode (recorded Thursday night) to discuss whether the announced ceasefire in Lebanon heralds a positive outcome for the region or holds Israel back on the brink of a victory over Hezbollah, and how this connects to the ongoing Iran conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.
0:18.0	Hope for the best.
0:19.0	Expect the worst. Welcome to the best and spend the worst.
0:21.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast being recorded at night, which is one of the reasons that I look as though I have just emerged from Dracula's tomb.
0:33.6	That's not really because of night.
0:35.0	It's because of the room that I'm in in my house doing this on
0:37.9	Thursday night because we were unable for scheduling reasons to do it as we ordinarily do it in the
0:43.0	morning. So this podcast for Friday, April 17th, 2026 is being recorded on Thursday night, April 16th,
0:52.9	2026. I'm John Podhorst, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me.
0:57.5	As always, Executive Editor, A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe.
1:00.3	Hi, John.
1:01.2	Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth.
1:04.2	Hi, John.
1:04.9	And joining us today are contributing editor Puba at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's host of his own
1:11.2	thrice weekly news briefing at 830 in the morning available to you at FDD or on Twitter all
1:19.5	over the place. Jonathan Chanzer. Hi, John.
1:23.0	Hi, John. Jonathan Chanzer has a piece in the current issue of commentary, now available at
1:28.7	Commentary.org. This is our May issue. I'm very proud of it. And Jonathan has a piece that
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