Condolences for Evil

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Why did American institutions express sorrow at the passing of Iran's monstrous president? Why does anyone pay attention to the International Criminal Court? Why is an awful academic named Dov Waxman running a Jewish studies program at UCLA? Why did Biden say he was vice president during COVID? Why did the judge in the Trump case get all hysterical about a case of "side eye"? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	A first.
0:15.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	The worst of the bad Welcome to the
0:25.2	the Commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Tuesday, May 21st, 2024, although we are
0:31.3	recording this on Monday, May 20th,
0:34.0	20th, 2024.
0:35.0	I say this as I said yesterday because we will sometimes get the days confused as we're
0:40.2	speaking.
0:41.2	Just understand that we are taping this on a Monday that we are
0:43.7	going to hear it on a Tuesday so forgive us if you get a little confused when we
0:47.9	say today because or if we say today we're probably going to mean yesterday if that makes any sense to you we're probably going to mean yesterday. If that makes any sense to you, we're going to be talking
0:55.3	about some temporal confusion, by the way, on this podcast itself. As you'll hear, after I my my co-host here executive editor A
1:05.2	Greenwald hi Abe,
1:06.7	hi ab John senior editor Seth Mandel hi Seth
1:10.6	i John and media commentary columnist Christine. Hi, Christine.
1:14.0	Hi, John.
1:15.0	Look, tragically, men died in a helicopter crash in
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