Make Them Retire?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today we ask whether a proposal by Rahm Emanuel for a mandatory retirement age for politicians and judges makes sense and whether it might be a populist issue that could really gain traction—along with, maybe, pardon reform. Also, why do people who work at CBS News think their dumpster fire of an organization should be run the way it was being run when it was being run into the ground? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hope for the best.
0:38.3	Expect the worst.
0:40.3	Some drink your pain.
0:42.3	Some die of thirst.
0:44.3	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:48.3	Hope for the best.
0:50.3	Expect the worst.
0:52.3	Hope for the best. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. Today is Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. I'm John Pudhor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me, as always. Executive Editor Aide Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. Senior editor, Seth Mandel. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Social commentary. Collinness, Christine Rosen, hi, Christine.
1:12.5	Hi, John.
1:13.4	Senior editor Seth Mandel.
1:14.8	Hi, Seth.
1:16.0	Hi, John.
1:16.6	And Washington Free Beacon editor, Eliana.
1:18.8	Johnson, hi, Eliana.
1:20.1	Hi, John.
1:21.9	So a lot's not happened.
1:26.2	The War over Greenland is over before it began and apparently we're
1:35.0	getting everything we wanted, which we could have had before any of this happened. And so
1:41.5	congratulations to everybody on the great victory of not winning anything that wasn't already in our pocket.
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