The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Waterways and Means

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips
The U.S. is negotiating with Pakistan after its foreign minister called Jews a cancer and cockroaches.
Podhoretz turns a YouTube subscribe plea into a dry joke about scary systems running the show, then brings in Abe Greenwald and Seth Mandel for a clipped panel.

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A hard-nosed Iran discussion that treats the Strait as a global shipping choke point.

Jon Bodhoretz, Abe Greenwald, and Seth Mandel spend much of the episode on Iran's leverage over the Strait, and the discussion works best when it turns a strategic standoff into something tangible: shipping lanes, toll booths, and a world that cannot simply put the card back in…

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Why you'd press play

You want the Strait argument, with the room doing its best to keep the shipping jokes under control.

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