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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump Has a Good Day
Today’s podcast discusses Trump’s trip to the site of the train derailment in Ohio—which came at the same time it began to dawn on those hopeful he would be…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPete, Vivek, and Tim
Today’s podcast discusses the political impact of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, especially as regards Democratic darling Pete Buttigieg…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Trip and the GOP's Reaction
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast as permanent co-host today as we discuss the president’s trip to Kyiv and just what it was Ron DeSantis was saying about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's Noah's Last Podcast
Today we say a fond farewell to our colleague Noah Rothman, who is off to National Review. We do so by discussing his favorite recent story, the continuing…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Phileas Fogg of War
Today’s podcast: More balloons, why is the Right growing pessimistic about Ukraine when the Russians are experiencing catastrophes anew, and the New York Times…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThey Keep Changing the Story
Today’s podcast finds us all feeling gaslighted by the blizzard of weird and contradictory details coming out about the UFO incursions. We also discuss whether…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNikki Haley Enters the Arena
Today’s podcast examines former South Carolina governor/UN ambassador Nikki Haley’s announcement video for her presidential candidacy. Are the themes good…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Balloon Story Gets More Unnerving
Today’s podcast notes three more incidents in which American missiles downed unidentified flying objects and wonders what is worse: That we knew about all this…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDo We Even Have a China Policy?
Today’s podcast asks why the Biden administration declassified information regarding the Chinese surveillance flights via balloon and what they might suggest…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Anti-Republican Election Play
Today’s podcast notes Joe Biden’s pleasure at having drawn Republicans out into yelling at him during the State of the Union and how Bidenites are telegraphing…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Speech and All the Yelling
We analyze Joe Biden’s State of the Union, the Republican heckling, and the interesting response from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on today’s episode…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Will Biden Say About China?
Today’s podcast takes up the coming State of the Union speech and the fact that President Biden will have to make an accounting for himself on the bizarre week…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoes Anyone Know What They’re Doing?
The director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at AEI and National Affairs editor, Yuval Levin, joins the show today to talk about why experts…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat's With the Balloon?
Today’s podcast discusses a Chinese balloon, removing House members from committees, and Russia’s gambit in Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOh, So It Was Your Laptop, Hunter!
Hunter Biden’s legal team not only acknowledges that the “laptop from hell” was Hunter Biden’s but is now trying a newly “aggressive” strategy to go after the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCOVID and Koch
Tevi Troy joins the podcast today to talk about his article in COMMENTARY, “Ed Koch, Ten Years Gone.” And Tevi puts on his health-care hat as a former…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThis Will Leave a Mark
Mark Halperin of Wide World of News joins us today to discuss his must-read newsletter, the probabilities of both Trump and Biden being the 2024 nominees, what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDo They Really Want ‘Police Reforms?’
The brutal beating death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police has reignited the debate around over-policing and race in America. But “reform” doesn’t…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAre the Trump-Skeptics Getting Serious?
The arrest-related shooting of a black suspect has captured the attention of racial activists, but the narrative is complicated by the race of the police…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Committee To Wreck Everything
Today’s podcast brings up good economic numbers and asks whether we’re just now measuring everything badly—and how the political system is uniquely incompetent…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGiving Tanks
Frederick Kagan joins the podcast to help us understand the breakthrough in NATO thinking that has led Germany and the United States to commit high-tech tanks…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFBI-Yai-Yai
Eli Lake joins us to talk about the indictment of the former head of the counterintelligence unit of the FBI in New York and what it might tell us about the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAre Biden's Troubles Reinvigorating Trump?
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The Commentary Magazine PodcastPresident Edith Piaf
Joe Biden says he has “no regrets” about his handling of classified information. Really? Why not? Seems like a big deal to us on the podcast. Also a big deal…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Left's Ideological Enforcers
Today’s podcast takes up the successful war by New York leftists against their own Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, and her choice for chief judge of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastUnpacking the Freak Out over Israeli Politics
Editor, author, and columnist at the Jewish News Service and the Jerusalem Post, Ruthie Blum, joins the podcast today to explain why so many American Jews, in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFighting Vainly the Old Ennui
Today’s podcast asks whether it’s just a January funk or are we in an extended period of American social depression—from quiet quitting to mass shoplifting…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe COVID Revolts and the Biden-Trump Indictments
Today’s podcast takes up Noah Rothman’s lead February article, “The Worldwide COVID Revolts,” and what it says about the political fallout from the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Petard Hanging
Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss the Biden-documents revelations that caused Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special prosecutor to look into…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThere Are No Standards
The allegation that Joe Biden also mishandled classified documents expands to include a second tranche discovered at an undisclosed location, which raises…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFed Up
Today’s podcast considers a startling quote from Fed chairman Jay Powell, the nature of liberal vs. conservative beliefs about government power and regulation…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYes, Republicans Don't Like the IRS. So?
Today’s podcast takes up the bizarre accusations against the GOP that it is somehow acting in an illegitimate way by fulfilling a campaign promise to stand…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGood Luck, Kevin McCarthy
The podcast today asks what exactly the future holds for Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans in the wake of McCarthy’s 15th-ballot election as House…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe ‘Democratic' Republicans
Today’s podcast considers the argument made by the House rebels that they are merely practicing “democracy” as it was meant to be practiced—when, in fact, they…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 'Democratic' Republicans
Today's podcast considers the argument made by the House rebels that they are merely practicing "democracy" as it was meant to be practiced—when, in fact, they…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Horror of Portlandia
We’re joined today by the journalist Nancy Rommelmann, whose shocking article, “ A Murder in Portland,” exposes the nature of the existential threat posed to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Washington Blank Show
Matt Continetti joins the podcast to talk about Kevin McCarthy’s horrible day and what that day portends for the Republican party over the next days, weeks…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe GOP House Meltdown
As the new year begins, the podcast looks with wonder and horror at the really insane start of the new Congress, in the hands of a tiny Republican majority—and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Trends of 2022
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The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Bright Side of 2022
It turns out 2022 wasn’t entirely irredeemable. We reflect on some of the year’s silver linings and positive developments. Noah: The revitalization of NATO…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Movies We Loved in 2022
The gang discusses the movies they enjoyed (or really didn’t enjoy) in 2022. Abe: “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Moonage Daydream” Christine: “Top Gun…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Television We Loved in 2022
Today, we dive into the television shows we watched and loved—or, at least, liked—in 2022. John: “1883” and “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Abe: “Mr. Inbetween”…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Books We Loved in 2022
To open up a week of special Christmas week podcasts, we talk about the books we read and loved in 2022. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe January 6th Report
The podcast today asks whether the January 6 report is an example of overreach or whether its findings may be morally merited if not a proper legal blueprint…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Tale of Two Flags
Volodymyr Zelensky came to the nation’s capital, and, in our nation’s Capitol, he crushed it with a speech that was both substantive and heartening. We break…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastZelensky Comes to Town
Today’s podcast looks at the rank politics being played around the visit of Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Zelensky’s stunning one-day trip to Washington to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Last January 6th Hearing
Was it just grandstanding, or did the committee make its case for the criminal referrals it made to the Justice Department relating to Donald Trump? And does…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastEven Corporate Media Can't Ignore the Border Any Longer
Today’s podcast looks at the accelerating crisis at the southern border of the United States, and the fact that the Biden administration is putting its head in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs Musk Sucking Up All the Trump Oxygen?
Today’s podcast points out that Donald Trump’s bizarre announcement that he’s selling NFT images of himself was completely overshadowed later in the day by…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe GOP’s State of Nature
From Rep. Ralph Norman’s calls for “marshall law” to prevent Republican officials from certifying 2020’s election results, to House Republicans’ attacks…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastShould the Vaccines Be Investigated?
With Ron DeSantis pretty firmly taking the lead in 2024 matchups against Donald Trump, there also comes news of DeSantis seeking to convene a grand jury to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried
James B. Meigs joins the podcast today to talk about his January COMMENTARY column, “Twilight of the Tech Gods,” and how the collapse of the cryptocurrency…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTechno-Ambivalence
There has been a breakthrough in the development of sustainable fusion-generated power. Will this be a welcome development, or will there be a backlash? Also…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNever a Dull Day
Just when you thought it was safe to stop thinking about politics, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona shows up and throws a wrench into Joe Biden’s Democratic machine…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Happy Biden Problem
AEI fellow and author Matthew Continetti joins the program today to talk about the deal that has freed WNBA player Brittney Griner from Russian captivity…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSurveying Trump's Wreckage
Get ready for some harsh language as we discuss the final nail in the coffin of the Republican wave and the question of whether the GOP is on the verge of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTasting Neon
The podcast welcomes Tablet Magazine‘s chief technology officer and co-host of the “Ambitious Crossover Attempt” podcast, Noam Blum, to the program. We discuss…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Constitution Shredder
Does it matter that Donald Trump explicitly called for extra-Constitutional means to reinstall him as president somehow? Does it matter that Republicans aren’t…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Enabling of Jew-Hatred
Today we discuss the horrifying Kanye West interview with the horrifying Alex Jones and how nearly two decades of treating West with kid gloves has led us to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe Don't Know What the News Is Anymore
Today’s podcast points out that for the first time since 2015, every piece of American news doesn’t somehow revolve either directly or indirectly around a…