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The Editors

Episode 839: All Eyes on Iran

The Editors

National Review

Rich Lowry, Conservatism, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review, Conservative, Noah Rothman, Policy, Current Events, Jim Geraghty, Government, Madeleine Kearns, News, Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Michael Brendan Dougherty

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, Trump hit Iran, and is Jerome Powell going down?

0:20.3

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Larry, and I'm joined as a woods by the right, honorable, Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor at Oroofman and the Sage of Authenticity Woods. Jim Garrity, you are, of course, listening to a National Year podcast. Our sponsors this episode are the University of Austin with the Witherspoon Institute, Strawberry and Vare, more about all of them, and due course, and for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way. You can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple podcast. If you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything.

0:55.6

So before we get into it in earnest here, let's hear a message from our friends at the University of Austin.

1:01.1

You know college is broken.

1:02.9

Activist professors, seminars that feel like struggle sessions, $80,000 a year to hear a Moss chance on the quad while being told America is evil in class.

1:12.9

So what's the alternative?

1:14.1

There's a new university in Texas that's doing the opposite.

1:17.1

It's called the University of Austin or UATX.

1:20.3

At UATX, students read the great books of Western civilization to learn from them, not tear them down.

1:25.8

They build actual companies on campus with

1:27.9

mentorship from a vast network of top entrepreneurs and investors. You can be openly Christian or Jewish

1:33.1

without apology. And when you walk into the main atrium, there's a giant American flag. UATX

1:39.4

admits students based purely on test scores, so the application takes just five minutes. And thanks to patriotic donors, tuition at UATX is completely free forever to apply to the

1:49.7

University of Austin, visit u-Austin.org.

1:52.1

That's U-A-U-S-T-I-N.org.

1:56.0

Please check it out.

1:58.1

So Jim Garrity, we have Fermat in Tehran and around the country in Iran.

2:04.6

These protests seem to be growing. It's a little hard to tell because there's been a media

2:08.6

blackout imposed by the regime. And the reason why there's been a blackout, this is now

2:14.2

a tried and true MO from this regime.

2:20.9

You block everyone's internet access, et cetera, and then you kill a bunch of people.

2:22.8

Not clear how many people have been killed.

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