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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Today we discuss the president announcing American escorts for ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the negative reaction by shipping companies and insurers, and how the ongoing war might impact the midterm elections with the rise of radical democratic candidates. 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
0:24.9	podcast. Today is Monday, May 4th,
0:27.5	2026, which of course means
0:30.1	may the fourth be with you.
0:34.3	I'm John Pudhorre. It's the editor
0:36.4	of commentary, and if anybody is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of this show,
0:41.0	it's me. So if you strike me down, Abe will become even more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
0:47.3	That, of course, being Abe Greenwald, our executive editor. Hi, Abe.
0:50.8	Hi, John.
0:53.6	Grogu, Seth, Mandel, our senior editor. Hi, John. Grogu, Seth, Mandel.
0:57.2	Our senior editor, hi, Seth.
0:59.5	Hi, Seth. Hi, John.
1:00.6	And I'm stopping here.
1:03.8	So, so.
1:04.1	Eliana and I will battle it out over who gets to be Leia, who gets to be Ray.
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