Hope for the best.

Expect the words.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024.

I think it's the first time that I've actually used the word 2024 the term or whatever you would call it

Out loud

So that's very exciting. I'm John Pothortz the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

Hi, Seth. Hi, John.

Christine Rosen is sadly felled by a case of laryngitis and is out today, but with us of course is her

colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, our Washington commentary columnist Matthewist Matthew Kontetti.

Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

I want to say that we are going to take on the enormous amount of news

coming out of Israel, Gaza, and the Israeli political situation, but we are going to do it tomorrow because we will be joined by the genius of or about Israel himself Dan Sinenor to handle the subject so today we're just going to do

raw naked American politics but before we do that I just wanted to share with you guys.

You know, it's rare that the dumbest op-ed in a year

will be published on the first day of the year.

That's really kind of like a gift because you set a bench line, a bench. of the New York Times published a benchmark that few things could possibly match.

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