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Expect the worst. Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Friday, June 12, 2026. I am John

Podhor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine. We are today going to be closing our special

July, August issue, our summer issue, and the over-riding

concept is 250 years of America, 3702 years of American Jewry.

So we are trying to interweave the story of the reasons to celebrate this unimaginably great

political experiment with the unimaginably great way in which this land took the Jewish people to

its heart and its bosom, even with the, uh, horrors that,

uh, we have been greeted since October 7th.

So we, that should be available Monday, uh, morning, uh, Monday sometime, uh, very proud of the

issue, a lot of very good stuff in it. And if you

are a subscriber who gets the hard copy, we have a very, very special cover that I am going to

tease to you because we've never done anything like this cover before. So,

commandeering and helming,

the closing of that issue is, of course,

executive editor Abe Greenwald.

Hi, Abe.

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