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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The indelible Chris Stirewalt joins us to discuss the overwhelming power disparity in the Iran war in contrast to its negative coverage in the media, and how the perverse incentives for partisan nastiness prevent progress on broadly popular policy measures. Plus, what Zohran Mamdani hosting Mahmoud Khalil says about the real intentions of those claiming to merely be "pro-Palestine," and the modern relevance of the 1933 novel The Oppermanns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8	Hope for the best.
0:38.3	Expect the worst.
0:40.3	Some drink you're paying.
0:42.3	Some die of first.
0:44.3	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:48.3	Hope for the best.
0:50.3	Expect the worst.
0:52.3	Hope for the best. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:56.8	Today is Wednesday, March 11th, 2026.
1:00.3	I am John Podhor.
1:01.5	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
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