The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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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
Is the Biden Administration…Dumb? Hear Us Out.
Today’s podcast takes in the horrible news about America’s shrinking GDP and the Biden administration’s responses to things over the past couple of weeks and asks the question we’ve been circling around for months: What if the top dogs in the White House are… stupid? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Biden Blew the January 6th Opportunity
Today’s podcast takes up the new taped revelations about Republican leaders worrying over the role Republican elected officials may have played in the January 6 insurrection—and how they show the kind of chance Joe Biden had to revise the boundaries of American politics and failed to do it. Also on tap: J.D. Vance’s surge in Ohio and what it might portend. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Musk's Big Play
Today’s podcast revels in the anti-Musk tantrums being thrown by establishmentarian liberals and leftists while pointing out that he didn’t just spend $20 billion of his own money on Twitter to promote free speech. What is he up to? And is the fact that Trump’s favored gubernatorial candidate in Georgia cratered in the latest poll a sign that the ex-president is refusing to engage with the issues... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Commentary After Dark
When the sun goes down, the Commentary podcast gets loose. In today’s episode, the hosts convened after dark to talk about what Emmanuel Macron’s victory means for Western populist movements and debate the merits of Ron DeSantis’s shot across woke corporations’ bows. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Biden's Confusion and McCarthy's Mendacity
Today’s podcast asks which is the bigger story: Biden unable to tell the difference between border problems and mask mandates or leading House Republican Kevin McCarthy proved to be a liar when it comes to January 6. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Didn't Prepare for This Show!
Today’s podcast is totally raw. We didn’t even discuss what we were going to talk about. And yet talk we did! Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mask Chaos, Saudi Chaos, Disney Chaos
Today’s podcast discusses the nationwide confusion over the meaning of the mask decision, the Biden administration’s mishandling of Saudi Arabia, and Ron de Santis going after Disney. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Throw Those Extra Masks in the Garbage
Adam White, legal guru, joins the podcast today to discuss the stunning decision of a Florida district judge to end the Biden administration’s mask mandate. Were the grounds sufficient? What will the political fallout be? And why is New York City maintaining the mandate with 87 percent of its residents vaccinated? Then we talk about the administration throwing environmentalists under the bus. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Debating Debates, and the Times's Anti-Semitic Barbarity
Today’s podcast discusses the decision of the RNC to pull out of the presidential-debate commission system before we rise in outrage at the disgusting pre-Passover op-ed in the disgraceful New York Times about how Judaism is supposedly a celebration of mass murder. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Minor Annoyances and Major Backlashes
Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake joins the podcast in John Podhoretz’s absence. Today, we discuss the shift from asymmetrical warfare in Ukraine to conventional battles, the perpetual state of Covid emergency, and the many minor irritations imposed on voters by progressive activist politicians that, cumulatively, will produce a major backlash. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playing Small Ball During a Tsunami
Today’s podcast explores the fact that on this date in 2018, Donald Trump’s approval rating was 42.8 percent—and today Joe Biden’s is 40.6 percent. The Republican Party was battered in the 2018 elections, but Biden and the Democrats are still hopeful they can ward off disaster through “small ball” tactics. We examine them, and the continuing madness of the CDC’s efforts to keep masks on Americans. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Subway Shooting and What It Means
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to talk about the larger meaning of yesterday’s horrific subway shooting—and why the media are unlikely to make hay out of it because the key suspect doesn’t fulfill a liberal narrative. And then we discuss Matt’s seminal article, “Is There A Right Left?,” from the May issue of COMMENTARY. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Increasing Desperation of the Bidenites
Today’s podcast discusses the gimmicky measures a panicked Biden administration is throwing at the inflation/economic crisis and why on earth they think they’re going to help. And why on earth is Philadelphia reimposing a mask mandate? Do that city’s Democrats want to elect a Republican to the Senate in 2022—because that could be the result? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fauci Concedes, DeSantis Triumphs, Jeffrey Goldberg Defames
Today’s podcast takes up the latest COVID numbers and how they reveal the end of the pandemic—so much so that even Anthony Fauci is effectively saying so. Then we talk about astounding Ron De Santis fundraising, French politics, and a disgusting assault on student journalists by the editor of the Atlantic. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biden Family Business
Today’s podcast takes up the revisionism in the mainstream media when it comes to the chicanery of Hunter Biden and his uncle—and asks what did his father know? And we delve deep into this week’s descent into Obama nostalgia and why such good feelings on the part of Democrats are unwise. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Commentary in Palm Beach!
Today’s podcast is only our second before a live audience. Dan Senor joins us to talk about Israel’s collapsing government and the electoral prospects for the GOP in November. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Loan Me Your Votes
Today’s podcast takes up the Biden administration’s strange decision to use COVID-19 as an excuse to continue a “student loan moratorium”—and we ask what good this will serve and what the political fallout might be. Then we discuss the upcoming elections as a possible binary choice between bad Democratic policy and crazy Republican politicians. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Is Elon Musk Up To?
Jim Meigs, our Tech COMMENTARY columnist, joins us today to explore the motivations of Elon Musk in taking the largest single ownership stake in Twitter. Why do people hate him so much? Is it just envy? And then we talk about cyberwar. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They Can't Believe Ukraine Is Winning
Today’s podcast asks whether establishment opinion is now beginning to turn slightly against Zelensky on the grounds that he really needs to have a path to surrender—even though Ukraine is winning. Also, why is the tradcon right celebrating the victory of a Hungarian politician who sides with Putin? And why is Disney diving headfirst into the culture wars? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cheaters, Cheaters Everywhere
Today’s podcast takes up the failure of gerrymanders in both Democratic and Republican states, and why both parties are so committed to egregious efforts to tilt legislative maps in their own favor—notwithstanding the real possibility that they will be embarrassed and shot down when they do so. Then we talk about the latest research into the lab-leak hypothesis and the continuing cultural battles... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crisis Management, One Stunt at a Time
Bloomberg columnist and host of the upcoming podcast, “The Reeducation,” Eli Lake joins the show today in John’s absence. We talk about the news from the front in Ukraine, Joe Biden’s releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the Democrats in genuine disarray. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Liberal Economic Panic
Yuval Levin joins today’s podcast, a very special episode in which we delve deeply into a revelatory conversation between the New York Times’s Ezra Klein and leading liberal economist Larry Summers—in which Klein reveals his horrified discomfort at the fact that many of the policies he thought were going to save America are instead driving us into an economic ditch. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices