Multipolar Disorder

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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FDD's Jonathan Schanzer is back to discuss yesterday's chain of events involving Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran, and the stream of contradictory media reports and remarks from admin officials. Plus, more on the miscalculations in conducting the war and what the endgame might look like, and a check in on Graham Platner. 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 reach and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of birds.
0:14.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:17.0	Hope for the best.
0:19.0	Expect the worst. Welcome to the Comment magazine daily podcast. Today is Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. I am John
0:28.3	Podhorst, the editor of commentary. Extending to you, our invitation, first-time readers, first-time
0:35.8	subscribers, go to commentary.org slash offer, and you can subscribe to
0:41.0	commentary, commentary.org and the commentary archives for 1995 a year. That's 1995 a year. Savings of 80%.
0:49.1	We have had just an avalanche of orders since I began talking about this last week.
0:55.3	Join the throng.
0:56.6	It's exciting.
0:57.8	You're never going to get an offer like this again.
1:00.2	Commentary.org slash offer.
1:04.0	And we are excited today to discuss our bipolar reaction to yesterday's news with senior editor Seth Mandel.
1:15.1	Hi, Seth.
1:16.5	Hi, John.
1:18.1	Washington Free Beacon editor Eliana Johnson.
1:20.9	Hi, Eliana.
1:22.4	Hi, John.
1:23.9	And our contributing editor, Puba, at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and
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