The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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The Democrats Shout ‘Run Away!' from Joe Biden
The podcast takes up a shocking New York Times poll that finds the president’s approval rating at a catastrophic 33 percent, with nearly two-thirds of Democrats wanting another candidate in 2024. And what’s this about the January 6 committee not bothering to ask Trump’s White House counsel what he might have said on that day? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Did the AP Just Trash a Man Who Was Assassinated?
Today’s podcast concerns the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe—and takes particular note of a shocking Associated Press piece about him and his death. Is there no decency left anywhere? Also, why the good jobs number is also bad. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ouster of Boris Johnson
Peerless historian and political analyst Andrew Roberts joins the podcast today to give us the skinny on Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister of Great Britain—what occasioned it, what Johnson might do now, and who will succeed him. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They're Turning on Biden
For the first time, we have two guests on the podcast—Eli Lake and Eliana Johnson—to talk about the strange emergence all at once of anti-Biden stories in the mainstream media and what they portend. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Tragic Fourth of July
On the publication day of Noah Rothman’s The Rise of the New Puritans, Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to discuss Noah’s book, the horrible massacre in Highland Park at the July 4th parade, and the troubling news out of Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deferential No More
The Supreme Court’s final day of a consequential term ended no less consequentially. Legal scholar Adam White joins the podcast once again to break down the Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency and its sweeping implications for the administrative state. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
‘Stranger Things' in Ukraine and America
Today’s podcast ranges unusually from the coming release of the last hours of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things—and its welcome embrace of anti-Communism—to the expansion of NATO in the wake of the war in Ukraine and why Joe Biden can’t figure out how to take political advantage of the one thing he’s actually done well. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Allegations Left Unanswered
Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony before the January 6 committee contained many new details about Donald Trump’s conduct during the riots. Some of her claims have been disputed. Many others have not yet been even contested. But if the president’s allies don’t want her testimony to stand, someone close to him is going to have to testify. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Clarence Thomas Is Up To
Adam White, legal scholar extraordinaire, joins us to discuss the impact of the Dobbs abortion decision and why we should credit and take seriously the concurrences by Justices Roberts and Thomas—and what Clarence Thomas’s program as the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court actually is. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Christine Is Back!
Today’s podcast features the return of Christine Rosen, who was set to be gone all summer but who has returned early due to popular demand—and helps the rest of us continue to come to grips with the Dobbs decision and how it might affect American society and our elections. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Into the Post-Roe Unknown
The Supreme Court has overturned the precedents in Roe and Casey and sent the issue of abortion back to the states to decide. What comes next? We haven’t the slightest idea. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Second Amendment Is Not a Second-Class Amendment
Today’s podcast takes up the historic Supreme Court decision on guns today and asks what it might portend for the American political system in its wake. And we discuss Biden’s latest stupidity. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will the Gun Deal Go Through? Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Break Through?
Today’s podcast explores the political ramifications of the gun legislation that seems to have had a bipartisan breakthrough in the Senate, and also considers the horrifying details laid out in yesterday’s hearing on the January 6 riot. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bibi's Audacious Gambit—and Food, Inglorious Food!
We welcome Dan Senor to today’s podcast to explain the collapse of Israel’s government and how it represents a brilliant new political play by Bibi Netanyahu. Then we talk about our own Noah Rothman’s lead essay in the July-August COMMENTARY, “You Are What You Don’t Eat.” Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Do Republicans Really Want?
What the 2024 Republican presidential primary with Donald Trump in the race could look like, and what the Texas GOP tells us about the mood among party activists. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Open Secrets
James Kirchick, author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, joins the podcast today to discuss his book as well as the January 6 Committee’s ongoing hearings and the revolt of the “woke” in the workplace. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're Just Wild About Harry
CNN data guru Harry Enten joins the podcast to talk about polls, numbers, and the history of midterms and parties. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elections, Hispanics, and the Coming Wave
Today’s podcast takes up the results of last night’s primaries and elections and wonders at the Democratic head-in-the-sand reaction to the way Hispanic voters are moving to the Republican party. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Case for Economic Pessimism
The Bahnsen Group’s David Bahnsen joins the podcast today to talk about the bear market, inflation, energy geopolitics, and why we may be overly optimistic about our long-term economic fortunes. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Inflationary Shame Spiral
Democrats are attempting to convince voters that inflation is A) everyone else’s fault and B) something that Republicans could do something about if they had a plan. Will it work? Also, Ron DeSantis’ impressive showing at the Jewish Leadership Conference and the January 6 Committee’s unwise decision to set high expectations for their performance. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do the January 6 Hearings Matter?
American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Matthew Continetti joins the program today to break down the January 6 Committee’s first hearing. What did we learn? What did the Committee prove? And what does it matter? Also, what the firing of Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez says about the future of “wokeness.”... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Heated Rhetoric and High Expectations
The January 6 Committee holds a primetime hearing tonight to make the case for conspiracy. What can we expect to see from the proceedings? Also, the assassination attempt targeting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the need to take the temperature down. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The California Political Earthquake
Eli Lake joins the podcast to talk about the staggering results in the California primary last night, in which a progressive prosecutor was recalled and an all-but-in-name Republican came in first in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
That's Not Funny, It's a Firing Offense
Today’s podcast takes up the punishment of a Washington Post reporter for the crime of retweeting a provocative joke—and what it says about journalism, the Post, and America. Plus: what Georgetown Law School hath wrought in its treatment of a conservative scholar. And we talk January 6. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biden Excuse Machine Grinds On
Today’s podcast examines exculpatory articles about Joe Biden’s troubles and the Democratic Party’s “messaging” and asks the following question: Are you kidding me? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is Emotion Enough?
Joe Biden’s speech lobbying for new gun laws was emotional and affecting, but is that enough to convince the Senate to enact his policy preferences? Plus, good jobs numbers and student loan debt relief as evidence of the White House’s ideological capture. COMMENTARY tech columnist James B. Meigs joins the show today to talk about all this and more. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
So Now Biden Wants to Make Nice With the Saudis?
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to talk about OPEC’s move to release more oil just as Joe Biden is “considering” a visit to Saudi Arabia. Gee, we thought Saudi Arabia was beyond the pale! And we talk baby formula, abortion, and guns, so you know nothing controversial will be said. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Can't Stop Talking About How Weird Biden Is
Eliana Johnson of the Washington Free Beacon joins the podcast today to talk about Joe Biden’s walk-back of his firm statement—on Monday!—that the U.S. wouldn’t supply Ukraine with certain weapons. Why does he keep doing this? What on earth is going on? Plus, what happened with the John Durham investigation? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Poor Joe Biden, Nobody Gives Him Credit
Today’s podcast takes up an NBC News story about how Joe Biden isn’t getting enough credit. Credit for what, you may ask? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Are We Doing to Ourselves?
The new timeline of events in Uvalde, Texas has upended the debate over what can be done to prevent another massacre like it. Also, New York City’s surrender to the opioid/opiate crisis. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is America a Sick Society?
Yuval Levin joins us to discuss what larger meaning may or may not attach to the horrific mass murders afflicting the United States. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Moral Crisis or Moral Panic?
Today’s podcast discusses how we should view the Texas school massacre and to what extent the actions of its perpetrator serve as an indictment of American society and American policy. Then, what did Tuesday’s primary results say about Donald Trump’s hold on the GOP? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Evil at Princeton
Today’s podcast takes up the horrific story of the firing of tenured Princeton professor Joshua Katz—defenestrated for holding views considered unacceptable by the university leadership, which then went on a hunt for pretext to fire him. The question: What good are universities any longer? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When Biden Speaks, Does He Change Policy?
Today’s podcast asks how seriously we are to take President Biden’s flat statement that we would be involved if China attacked Taiwan, and also how seriously we are to take his new economic initiative with eastern nations. Plus, immigration, racism, and Georgia! Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The End of the Right’s Russia Delusions
Eli Lake, the host of “The Reeducation” podcast, joins the show today to talk about Congress’s provision of $40 billion in arms and aid to Ukraine, and why the ascendant populism on the right failed to derail that effort. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Economic Chickens Come Home to Roost
The podcast today regards the coming of the bear market and the increasing signs of economic turmoil with horror and interest, wondering at their political effect. And we discuss disinformation and baby formula. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Mixed-Bag Primary
Today’s podcast examines the fascinating and complex results of last night’s primary elections across the country before delving into the Ukrainian ways of war—both on the battlefield and on the airwaves. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Everybody Is Going Extreme
Today’s podcast examines the changes in the electorates on the eve of primaries across the country, and wonders why people are so addicted to theories about America rather than looking at the evidence of their own eyes. And we discuss baby formula again. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Moment of Thanks and a Day of Horror
The podcast today opens with thanks for kind words about the passing of Midge Decter before turning to the evil perpetrated by a mass shooter in Buffalo and what the larger political impact will be. And we discuss the baby formula shortage and abortion polling. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rejecting Your Own Liberty
Commentary contributor and author Naomi Schaefer Riley joins the podcast today to discuss the life and work of the late Midge Decter, her signature on an open letter defending liberty from its many detractors across the political spectrum, and the last vestiges of Covid mania. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Democrats are Delusional. Republicans Are Nuts.
National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar joins the Commentary podcast today to break down what we’ve seen so far from Democratic and Republican primary voters, and what we can expect their choices will mean for the 2022 midterm elections. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Great Mysteries of 2022
The Democrats find themselves increasingly confounded by the mysteries of political life in 2022. Where did all the gun crime come from? What’s the Republican Party’s plan to address inflation? Why can’t Joe Biden manifest his will like the Green Lantern? It’s all an irresolvable riddle, especially when you have no intention of solving it. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erasing the Divide Between the Personal and Political
The program welcomes contributing editor Eli Lake back on the show to discuss the new lend-lease legislation providing arms and aid to Ukraine and the air of menace around the homes of the Supreme Court’s justices. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Protesting Harm or Help the Pro-Roe Cause?
Today’s podcast looks at the weekend’s direct action against the homes of Supreme Court justices and asks whether those engaged in such protest understand what it looks like and feels like to the average American. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Liberals Don't Care About the Threats to Conservative Justices
Today’s podcast notes that all the talk of the Supreme Court now being illegitimate because of the expected overturning of Roe v. Wade has triggered defensive actions to ensure the safety of the justices. Where’s the outrage? Why aren’t liberals more exercised by this? Why, in fact, are some of them actually tickled? Also: Who benefits from the leak of information about American intelligence being... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America the Distractable
Will voters become as consumed with the issue of abortion rights in the same way the political class has, even to the detriment of more urgent issues like inflation and crime? We discuss and debate. Also, the perpetual Covid mitigation regime in Democrat-dominated locales, the New York Times’ failed hit on Elon Musk, and why we know what we shouldn’t know about Russia’s war on Ukraine. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vance Advances: Earthquake, Day 2
Adam White joins the podcast—a blockbuster of a podcast, by the way—to discuss JD Vance’s victory in the Ohio Republican Senate primary and the continuing fallout from the Supreme Court leak. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Abortion Earthquake
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to talk about the unprecedented leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. We discuss the immediate politics, the constitutional logic, and the meaning of the leak itself. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What’s the Market for Madness?
Kentucky State University Professor Wilfred Reilly joins the podcast today in Christine’s absence to discuss his new piece in COMMENTARY¸ “The New Definition of Racism,” and why Democrats have made neurosis into a political brand. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Left's Projection Crisis
Today’s podcast provides a litany of examples of liberals and the left giving themselves permission to do brazen and sometimes outright illegal things because, in their view, conservatives did them first and not to do them also would be a form of unilateral disarmament. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices