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Welcome to the Best and Expect the Worst

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Friday, May 15th, 2026.

I'm John Potth Hortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine.

Sometime today, the contents of our June issue will be available for your perusal at Commentary.org.

You can't read all of it unless you subscribe, so it's time to subscribe, though I will remark

that we're going to be offering a special subscription deal next week, so you could also wait

until next week. But I'll just tell you a little bit about the glories

inside this issue, which is led by a remarkable piece, by a pretty remarkable writer,

a British historian who teaches in Japan. His name is Mike Burke. He's written a couple of things

for us before. But this is, it's called the

covenant and the wooden box and it is about Britain's betrayal of its Jews and the system that

has led to this betrayal and how it reflects the larger decline of England and Britain as a civilization.

I am very proud of this very original piece.

Other other remarkable and unusual pieces in this issue include new contributors, Zohar Atkins, who has written a piece about martyrdom

and about how the difference between pretty much between Jewish martyrdom, Christian martyrdom,

and Islamic martyrdom, or modern political martyrdom, which is to say that the martyr of antiquity, martyrs that we

celebrate and that we remember forever, their deaths are about their deaths. And the modern political martyr, of course, is using his own death as a means or to kill as many other people as possible.

How this happens, how martyrdom was perverted in this way.

Very unusual piece, very original.

As I say, I'm very, very proud of it.

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