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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe News Organizations Working With Hamas
Today's podcast begins with a discussion of the Republican debate before we turn to the astonishing revelations that trusted stringers for a series of Western…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDemocrats Have a Good Night
Today's podcast looks at the results of the 2023 elections and show how abortion is still winning for Democrats and how Republicans just keep losing and losing…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Escalation Is Here
Today we talk about the ramped-up anti-Semitic violence exploding almost simultaneously across the country, including the fatal attack on a Jewish man in Los…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Genius Of Israel, Now More Than Ever
Dan Senor joins us to talk about his new book, The Genius of Israel, co-written with Saul Singer, and why its portrait of the war-torn country—finished long…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Tik-Tok War
Meghan McCain joins the podcast to help buck up our spirits about how ordinary Americans really feel about Israel and Hamas as opposed to the elites on…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhere Are the Cops? Where?
Today's podcast takes up the horrible story of the still-unsolved murder of Samantha Woll and the haste with which Detroit police said it had not been a hate…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA World Crisis Demands Serious Politicians
Today's podcast asks what kind of condition the presidential race is in a year before we vote, and whether the gravity of a deteriorating world is being met…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Influence of Hamas and the Grief of Jews
Today's podcast features three listener questions about the success of Hamas's PR strategy, how the Jewish community can protect itself, and whether Jews…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHey, Jewish Organizations: Stop Telling Jews to Hide
oday's podcast takes up the fact that the kosher dining hall at Cornell University was closed yesterday out of an "abundance of caution" because of some online…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGoing After Jews After Jews Are Slaughtered
Today's podcast is about how the idea that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are two different things has been completely demolished by the targeting of Jews…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIsrael Needs to Win
Eli Lake joins us today to continue our conversation about the nature of the rhetorical and protest attacks on Israel and how they are meant to befuddle…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYou Need to Be in the Fight
Today's podcast discusses the psy-op the Left and the anti-Zionists and others are working on everyone who wants the world to stay focused on the threat to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy Is the Pentagon Leaking Against Israel?
Today we talk about the Biden administration's sudden alarm about Israel's war on Hamas. Where is this coming from? Is this what the president meant by…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYou Have to Listen to This Podcast Today
We have with us Michal Cotler-Wunsh, who is Israel's envoy for combatting global anti-Semitism. If there is one COMMENTARY podcast we've ever done that you…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJoe Biden's Disjointed Speech
COMMENTARY senior editor Seth Mandel makes his debut on the podcast to discuss Joe Biden's strange and unfortunate address from the Oval Office last night…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBlowing the Wrong End of the Shofar
Today's podcast looks askance at, and is horrified by, and laughs at, the protest at the Capitol yesterday by "Jewish organizations" working as propagandists…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Are They Waiting For?
Jonathan Schanzer, author of this month's lead article, joins us to discuss Biden's visit to Israel and the seeming delay in Israel's moves to begin the war it…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow to Help Israel, Which Is Helping Itself
We are joined today by the American-Israeli tech entrepreneur Michael Granoff, who is organizing an unprecedented effort to provide Israel with a supply chain…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrauma vs. Toughness: War Responses
Today's podcast raises the question: Are we dwelling too much on the trauma being suffered in the wake of the Hamas slaughters and on the humanitarian-crisis…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan We Bear to Listen to the Testimonies?
Noam Blum of Tablet joins us to discuss Tablet's effort to collect the testimonies relating to the massacre of Jews on October 7. Can we bear to listen? Can we…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Cotton-Eyed View
Sen. Tom Cotton joins the podcast today to discuss Israel's path going forward, the potential inconstancy of the Biden administration in supporting Israel's…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAs Biden Calls Out Evil, the Left Celebrates
Today's podcast commends Joe Biden's speech about Israel and Hamas, worries over the durability of his commitment, and cites the astonishing level of pro-Hamas…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Wobbly Clock is Ticking
Eli Lake joins the podcast to talk about the fecklessness of the Biden administration and how that may have given Iran a sense it could act with impunity—and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Monsters Must Pay
Dan Senor joins today's podcast to mourn with us at the horrors in Israel, to reflect on the burdens and the courage of Israeli people, and worry about the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Return of the 'Dang Fence'
Today's podcast dives deeply into the change in Joe Biden's attitude toward the border wall, noting a promise he made in August 2020 that his administration…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Building a Wall, It's Gonna Be Huge
Today's podcast scratches its head at the news that Joe Biden is...building a border wall? And throwing $9 billion in debt-relief aid at student loans even…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTo The Gaetz of Hell
Josh Kraushaar of Jewish Insider joins the podcast today to survey the wreckage of the House Republicans in the wake of the defenestration of the Speaker…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Impact of Random Crime
Today's podcast looks at three shocking crimes committed in American cities in the past two days and wonders if this might be the turning point for the liberal…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBurning Down the House
Chris Stirewalt joins today's podcast to talk about the House shenanigans over the past week, from Republicans at war with each other to radical Democrats…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGiving Notes on the Writers' Strike
Rob Long joins the podcast to talk about the career of the late Dianne Feinstein, the end of the WGA strike, and the stunning success of Sound of Freedom. Plus…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs It Curtains for Debates?
What on earth did we see last night at the Reagan Library? Did it change the race at all? Who, if anyone, benefitted from the shambolic but dull second…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill the Debate Consolidate?
Dan Senor joins the podcast to talk about the upcoming Republican debate and what the strategies of the various debaters should be, what they should talk…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJoe Biden Looks for the Union Label
Today's podcast examines Joe Biden's trip to Michigan to stand in solidarity with the United Auto Workers strikers and how it might affect his standing with…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastVictims of Crime and the Left of the Right
Today's podcast takes up two important articles in the new issue of Commentary—Christine Rosen's "Criminals and Their Apologists" and Matthew Continetti's "The…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGarland in the Hot Seat
Today's podcast assesses Merrick Garland's appearance on Capitol Hill, the continuing Democratic conviction that someone somewhere needs to shut Donald Trump…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastUnited Nations General Nonsense
Today's podcast takes up three speeches at the UN this week: there's the one by President Biden, there's the one by Iranian thug Ebrahim Raisi, and the one by…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDo Dems Get a Pass on a Government Shutdown?
Today's podcast points out that while all the talk of a government shutdown centers on Republican infighting in the House of Representatives, the idea that the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhen Politicians Behave Like Trash
Today's podcast finds commonalities in a congresswoman's disruptive conduct at a Denver theater, a would-be Virginia politician's selling sex acts on a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Presidency in Meltdown?
The podcast takes up the Hunter Biden indictment and how it's just the latest bad news for a presidency that seems awash in bad news and increasing fears among…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIsrael's Crossroads
Dan Senor joins the podcast today to give his view of both the domestic and foreign-policy challenges and opportunities facing the state of Israel over the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDo I Dare To Impeach?
Today's podcast tries to suss out the political motivations behind House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's "authorization" of an impeachment inquiry and what they say…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy Does Biden Lie So Much?
The podcast takes up the president's latest whopper, about being in New York on September 12, 2001 and seeing the wreckage of the Twin Towers. We all know…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThey're Coming After the Constitution
Today's podcast notes the remarkable confluence of two events. First, an appeals court finding that the Biden administration staged what a lower court judge…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRunning Scared
Mark Halperin joins us to figure out why Democrats are scared to step up and challenge Joe Biden even as Democratic voters beg for an alternative. And why are…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs This Another Sweetheart Deal for Hunter Biden?
Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss the news that Hunter Biden will be indicted...on a gun charge, and not on anything that has to do with influence-peddling…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSo Do We Stop Worrying About Medicare Now?
Yuval Levin joins the podcast to discuss an extraordinary piece in the New York Times alleging that the cost of Medicare has fallen radically to such an extent…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOK, Is It All Over?
Today's podcast takes up the stunning WSJ poll that has Trump up 46 points over DeSantis and asks whether, five months before the first electoral contest in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOur House Is A Very, Very Costly House
Today's podcast considers the weak job numbers and the persistence both of inflation and higher interest rates and asks whether Joe Biden is making a mistake…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Disaster Artists
Today's podcast asks what political benefits or liabilities a politician can accrue from their behavior in the wake of a natural disaster, with specific…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFallout From the Pull-Out
James Kirchick joins today's podcast to discuss the overdue outrage about our botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and a new book that's surprisingly critical…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Crisis Is Coming
The podcast today worries over the fact that the judge in the January 6 case set Donald Trump's trial date for the day before Super Tuesday next year, and what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDebating the Debate
Today Eli Lake joins the gang to consider what some of us got wrong about last week's Republican primary debate. According to polls, Ron DeSantis did himself a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe War on Drugs, the Death of Local Politics
On the last day of listener-questions week, we take up the war on drugs. Was it doomed? Have we surrendered? What are the consequences? Then we respond to a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHaley Dazzles, Vivek Annoys Effectively
We interrupt this week's listener-questions podcasts with our analysis of last night's Republican debate. The talk centers on Vivek Ramaswamy, and as such…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAI, Yai Yai
On today's listener-questions podcast, we first discuss efforts on the right over the past 20 years to address issues of concern to working-class Americans and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow to Read
Today's listener-question podcast finds us discussing how the COMMENTARY crew gathers the information we gather during the day and how and when we read books…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow to Maintain Friendships Across the Political Divide
Today's podcast marks the first in a week devoted to listener questions. First up: How do we manage to stay friends with people we disagree with so strongly—or…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Else Are We Gonna Talk About?
I start today's podcast saying I'm sick of talking about Trump and then...we talk about Trump. Which is suggestive of everything about American politics at…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWith Special Guest Star Noah Rothman!
Yes, the original Commentary podcast band is back together for one night only! Noah Rothman joins Abe and me for a delightfully crushingly morose hour of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMeatball Sub
Chris Stirewalt joins the podcast today to examine Donald Trump's immediate future in the wake of the latest indictments and whether they make it more likely…