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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's Worse Than That
A landmark podcast episode in which we all take turns claiming the situation between America and Israel and between college campuses and the rest of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Least He Could Do?
Was Joe Biden's at-long-last three minute statement about the unrest on college campuses sufficient for the moment, or the least he could do, or not even the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump Makes His Move
Donald Trump is solidifying his case against Joe Biden, and it's eerily similar to Joe Biden's case against Donald Trump in 2020—there's chaos everywhere and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFinally, Someone Does Something
The Columbia encampment is shut down and the students who occupied a campus building are charged with burglary. A mile north of Columbia, cops are attacked by…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Torment of Israel
Dan Senor, co-author of The Genius of Israel, reports on his recent trip there and how torn the Israeli people are between the fate of the hostages and the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump, SCOTUS, and Immunity
Today Adam J. White joins the podcast, and first we discuss whether the pro-Hamas cry-bullies will have the ability to function in life beyond the campus. Then…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs Hamas Brilliant?
Noam Blum joins the podcast today to discuss the strategy Hamas is pursuing to stave off the Israeli action in Rafah—the use of a hostage video to freeze…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLimousine Liberals for Hamas
Today we discuss the state of play between universities and the pro-Hamas encampment movement, and we consider Mike Johnson's seeming declaration of a counter…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Horrors at Columbia
The refusal both of Columbia University officials and New York City's mayor to confront and end the siege of the school's campus and the open threats to Jews…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIsrael Hits Iran and Columbia's Turn
Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast for an immediate after-action report on the details of the Israeli strike on Iran, whether deterrence has been…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIsraelis Need to Watch 'The Godfather'
That's the advice of podcast guest Liel Leibovitz, zooming in from Tel Aviv to discuss the Columbia hearings before the House yesterday and how the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump at the Bodega
Joe Biden is having a good month at the polls, but Donald Trump is finding new and inventive ways to campaign for president despite his humiliating courtroom…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastReturn of the Weathermen?
Yesterday's protests in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle suggest again that the pro-Hamas Left is moving into a new and more dangerous phase, one…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Iran Attack
A full house of COMMENTARY podcasters today as we try to reckon with the many possibilities relating to Iran's repelled attack on Israel—and the fact that…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOJ's Nightmarish Legacy
The death of OJ Simpson this week prompts us to discuss everything that changed in the wake of the murders he committed, the escape he bungled, and the trial…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Iranian Threat
Iran is said to be preparing or on the verge of a direct strike on Israel, and it's not clear Americans know about it. They will when it happens, and we…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 5 Percent Fantasy
Joe Biden tells an interviewer Israel should do a unilateral ceasefire for six to eight weeks. Tom Friedman of the New York Times explains there's a 5 percent…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump's Abortion Buzzsaw
Did Donald Trump help or hurt his chances in November with his statement yesterday that he did not want federal action on abortion? Did Joe Biden help or hurt…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Dark New Reality
Today's podcast tries to make sense out of the Biden administration's now-undeniable harsh turn against Israel and the incomprehensible behavior of the Israeli…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Makes Israel the Bad Guy
Today's podcast reels in horror from the administration response to the tragic errors that led to the Israeli attack on a food convoy and how it represents…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Incoherence Exposed
Today we talk about the increasing failure of Joe Biden's contradictory position on Israel. He's now all but accused Israel of a war crime but will continue to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Israel Pile-On
Today's podcast takes up the question of the Biden administration's problematic response to the tragic strike on a food aid convoy in Gaza—something for which…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Unforgivable and the Forgivable
Today we discuss unforgivable acts of Jew-hatred—including a riot outside a synagogue where money was being raised to help a Jewish burial society—and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy the Delay on Rafah?
Today Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to talk about what's been going on in public and behind the scenes between American and Israeli officials regarding a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNo Excuses for Sam Bankman-Fried
Today's podcast takes up the 25 year sentence for the $8 billion fraud committed by "effective altruist" Sam Bankman-Fried, and what his law-professor mother's…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Lieberman Legacy
Today's podcast pays tribute to the life, times, and political wisdom of Joe Lieberman, who died yesterday at the age of 82. What was so special about him and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBridge Over Troubled Nation
Today's podcast talks about how the bridge collapse in Maryland may accelerate the trust crisis in the country, already accelerating because nobody really…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Biden Turn
Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss the American abstention from yesterday's UN Security Council ceasefire resolution. Why is the Biden administration saying…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe No-Congressional-Body Problem
Today's podcast considers the terrorist attack in Russia and what it means for the war in Ukraine—and what the chaos in Congress means for the war in Ukraine…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Pursuit of Happiness
Today we start out discussing a new Pew poll that shows, contra Chuck Schumer and others, American Jews overwhelmingly approve of Israel and its efforts to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Stakes in Gaza
Today's podcast takes up a conversation between Israeli official Ron Dermer and our friend Dan Senor in which Dermer says a failure to secure victory in Gaza…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAn Anniversary of Sorts
Today we note that it was just about four years ago that this podcast went daily, and we consider the lasting impact of the pandemic and the prospects of a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Biden Breakdown and the Middle Class
Today's podcast begins with the Biden administration's increasing schizophrenia on the Gaza war and then proceeds to a powerful discussion of the elite war on…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBloodbathing
Today's podcast takes up the weekend kerfuffle over Donald Trump's use of the word "bloodbath" and how quickly his opponents in the media and elsewhere rose in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGround Chuck
Dan Senor joins the podcast to discuss the politics behind Chuck Schumer's dumbfounding speech calling for the deposition of Benjamin Netanyahu. What does it…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe TikTok Political Earthquake
James B. Meigs, our tech columnist, comes on to discuss the amazing rapidity with which a bipartisan coalition formed around the idea of forcing the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAnd Now, the Threat from the North
Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to note how, just in the last week, things have been heating up between Israel and Hezbollah on the northern border of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs Trump Being Railroaded?
Andrew C. McCarthy joins the podcast today to talk about how the prosecutions of Donald Trump may be violating critical Constitutional and procedural…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJoe Balaam
Eli Lake joins today's podcast to discuss the world's now-most-prominent "AsAJew," the writer-director Jonathan Glazer, who "refuted" his "Jewishness" on the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSo He Did OK!
Chris Stirewalt joins us for our State of the Union recap, including the "how do you build a pier and a road without having someone on the other side to sink…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden, Israel, and the SOTU
Ruthie Blum joins the podcast from Israel to discuss the Biden administration's rough treatment of Benny Gantz, ceasefire negotiations, Bibi's political…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNot-So-Super Wednesday
The podcast takes up the Super Tuesday results—the beginning of the Palmer era in American Samoa! No, seriously, the national race begins today and Biden is…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSCOTUS, Trump, and the War on the Jews
Adam White joins us to discuss the Supreme Court's seemingly authoritative (9-0!) and confusing (5-4) ruling that willl prevent any efforts to keep Donald…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDid Kamala Turn on Israel?
Today we take up the very confusing statement by Kamala Harris yesterday that the media are treating as a change in administration policy with its seeming call…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMen at Work
Today David Bahnsen joins the podcast and we talk about the aid-convoy stampede in Gaza, the career of Mitch McConnell, and finally David's new book…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAre We Overreading Primary Results?
Steve Kornacki joins the podcast to explain how we might be reading too much into Nikki Haley's support in Republican primaries, and he breaks down the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho's Afraid of the 'Uncommitted'?
Today we take up the puny results of Michigan's "Uncommitted" campaign against Joe Biden and his handling of the war in Gaza. Is a 13 percent protest vote what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's Almost Government Shutdown Time
Yuval Levin joins us to talk about how, on Friday, a quarter of the government is going to shut down and a week from Friday, the rest of it will—barring a deal…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump's Got Some Trouble
Henry Olsen, election-watcher extraordinaire, joins us today to analyze the results of the interesting South Carolina primary and the fact that across three…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTwo Years of Putin's Monstrous War
Today's podcast points out that, as we move into the third year of Russia's effort to swallow up Ukraine whole, the great dysfunction seems not to be taking…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan We Trust 'Confidential Sources'?
Eli Lake joins us today to discuss the bomb dropped in the middle of the Joe/Hunter/Jim Biden investigation with the indictment and arrest of a confidential…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Is Nikki Haley Up To?
The podcast today takes note of Nikki Haley's interesting announcement that she will be staying in the GOP race until she is mathematically eliminated. What's…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill Navalny's Death Change Things?
Today's podcast asks what the practical effect of the murder of Alexei Navalny might have on the general debate over how to handle Vladimir Putin and the war…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Cross of Gould
An essay in New York Magazine that tells the story of a 40something writer and the mental breakdown that leads her to want to divorce her husband tells the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSpace, Gaza, and Lina Khan
Adam White joins today to discuss his article "The Power Broke Her," about the powerful Washington bureaucrat Lina Khan and her agenda. We begin, though, with…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Rs Lose a Seat
The special election in New York not only went to Democrat Tom Suozzi—he also won by eight points. We debate whether this means Republican hopes for…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAmerica the Evil Dad?
Tucker Carlson went to a conference in a Mideast oil city and announced that America was the dad of the world and was perpetuating evil the way a dad would if…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSuperbowling for Dollars
Was the RFK Jr. Super Bowl ad good or bad? Was the game good or bad? Was Biden's effort to get himself into the news on Super Bowl Sunday without being…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden and the Roosting Chickens
Today's podcast examines the consuming disaster that was Biden's day yesterday and what on earth will happen going forward. Can he stay on the ticket? Will…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe COVID Reckoning Needs to Happen
James B. Meigs joins the podcast today to discuss new revelations about the possible cover-up of the origins of COVID and the role of leading figures in…