Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach and pain, some tiredness, the way of knowing which way it's going.

Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some poor, the bad.

Welcome to the commentary magazine, Daily Podcast. Today is Tuesday, April 11, 2023.

I am John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary magazine. We are closing our may issue today.

I think owing to the last, the final two days of the Passover holiday,

we may not have the issue up for you online, maybe until Friday, but maybe earlier.

I'm not quite clear yet. Abe is silting his head back and forth in comparable confusion.

But we have a dazzling piece. I'm now pitching to the dazzling cover piece,

which is called the return of paganism by Leo Liebowitz. It is a small masterpiece.

Please look for that. I have mentioned his name, so I will now formally introduce executive editor,

Abe Greenwald-Hye.

Hi, John.

Media commentary, columnist, an American Enterprise Institute, fellow Christine Rosen-Hye

John Matt Contanetti is out today in a fan favorite guest, Mark Halperin, author of the wide world of news newsletter,

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Hi, Mark.

I'm no Contanetti, but I'm happy to be here.

Well, that's no one is.

That's true.

He's irreplaceable, and yet here you are replacing him at least for the day and your seven-day week newsletter,

the wide world of news, a must read for everybody who pays attention to politics and America and everything else that is important.

In the world, I just want to throw out to people your first item today, which is that the new leaked US national security documents keep being exposed to fresh and damaging exclusives,

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