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

Oh, for the best, expect the worst.

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday, May 11, 2023. I'm John Pudhworts, the editor of commentary magazine.

Today, if it's not up already, it will be up later. I believe we will have our June issue, which is centered on a conversation about Israel at 75, a conversation between commentary magazine contributing editor Brett Stevens, commentary magazine board member Dan Sinow,

commentary magazine columnist mayor Sullivan, our friend Ben Shapiro, our friendly Alibavits and me. And that conversation is really about whether Israel is a providential nation or a purpose driven nation is there an unseen supernatural hand that guided Israel into existence and is protecting it or can we simply attribute Israel's own nature and the world is a natural natural nature.

And we attribute Israel's success and relative longevity as a new state of the 20th century to its human capital and that conversation, I think is very interesting.

And following along that, we have a remarkable piece by Jonathan Schanzer, which is, which was we put up online yesterday about the multi front war against Israel that Iran may already be staging as witness as witness the rocket attacks this week, Jonathan and others discern an Iranian hand in four fronts, first time since 1973 in the homekeeper war.

That Israel seems to have multiple hostile actors acting potentially in concert to come at it. That's an extraordinary piece, another extraordinary piece by Seth Mendel on how the DEI campus industry is fomenting, encouraging and indeed nurturing anti-Semitism on college campuses,

and a really fantastic review by Kevin Williamson about a very bad book that sort of goes into that just plays away at this book until its skeleton is revealed in all of its disease, the book by Alyssa court.

And Christine Rosen, our own Matt Continental Rob Long, of course there and Mayor Sullivan, with a column and Jim Megs with a column. So that's what we got for you in this issue.

Go to commentary.org and subscribe if you are not a subscriber, it's time for you to subscribe. That's a way of supporting this podcast and getting the most authoritative content that we produce this, of course, is sort of daily fish wrap in some ways and we're going to get to the daily fish wrap right now.

Discussing last night's fish wrap, which was Donald Trump's appearance at the CNN Republican Town Hall in New Hampshire.

Okay, I've talked enough somebody else take it from you didn't introduce you know intros.

Oh my God didn't introduce you.

So wrapped up in this excellent issue. So excited about the issue with me as always executive editor, a Greenwald hi, John.

And media commentary columnists, the American Enterprise and Sue fellow Christine Rosen, high Christine.

Hi, John.

And Washington commentary columnists and American Enterprise and Sue fellow Matthew Continental. Hi, Matt. Hi, John.

Okay, now that I've introduced you, Matt, formally to our listeners, perhaps you can take it from here on Trump at the town hall.

Well, I'd be happy to, you know, I have a very early bedtime. So I did not actually watch the Trump town hall. I know Abe did.

I did. I watched you five o'clock this morning. You've been a gotten up. You put a gun for Trump.

And then I was a time seven for Trump. No, it was on an eight. Yeah, I was a beginner as I was reading Joan Didian.

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