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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRedacted and Retailed
Today, we’re joined by the great Chris Stirewalt to discuss the media frenzy over the redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit, the transformation of the news business…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSteve Kornacki on the Big Momentum Shift
Today’s podcast features political-data sage Steve Kornacki as we try to make sense of the very clear change in the direction of the 2022 elections and why it…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe High Price of Debt Forgiveness
Today, we take up the matter of Joe Biden’s executive order on student loans. How bad is the policy? How good is the stunt? How cynical can you get? And…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNobody Knows Anything
Eliana Johnson joins the podcast today to talk about the verrrry interesting results in last night’s primaries and special elections and what they portend for…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThat's a Lot of Money
Matt Continetti joins us today to talk about the $1.6 billion donation to a new conservative entity to push conservative ideas and how it still doesn’t come…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastUnworkers of the World, Disunite!
Today’s podcast takes up the question of what people mean when they refer to “threats to democracy,” Anthony Fauci’s resignation, and what the whole “I don’t…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Lake Effect
Eli Lake joins us to talk Trump, FBI searches, attorneys general, stupid ideas about classification, and how the media aren’t dealing well with good news from…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan the CDC Fix Itself?
Today's podcast takes up the stunning news that the Centers for Disease Control is going to undergo a complete overhaul. The question is: Is this the right…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Night to Remember
Today's podcast was recorded last night—which led to ruminations on friendship, obnoxiousness, principle, conflict, and how these things might help explain the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill Trump Pony Up?
There are early indications that Republican candidates and campaign committees are languishing in the fundraising department, which could put a damper on their…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFishing Expeditions Sometimes Catch Big Marlins
Today's podcast takes up the highly volatile political situation of the past week following the warrant search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago and the monstrous…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRelease the Warrant!
What we know (and what we don’t know) about the warrant that justified the search of Mar-a-Lago. Is Donald Trump being targeted unjustly, or is there something…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Are You, Crazy?
Today's podcast asks whether the people who really decide elections—the ones in the middle—look at partisans and ideologues on both sides and ask whether their…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Comeback
The Biden administration tries to convince you that inflation came in at “0%,” and Donald Trump’s persecution narrative sets the stage for his political…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Mar-A-Lago Goat Rodeo
A fiery podcast today in which we take up the FBI search at Mar-A-Lago and the very real questions it raises about overreach and public distrust in our…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMark His Words, the GOP Candidates Are Bad
Mark Halperin joins the podcast to talk about the Democratic triumph with its big spending and climate change bill and how it looks like Republican candidates…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs the GOP Going to Blow It?
Matt Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss his piece, "The GOP Summer Swoon." Republican nominees for Senate are running behind, Kansas delivered a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMeghan McCain's True View
This is one for the ages. Meghan McCain joins us to talk about her home state of Arizona and its Republican primary results and then gives us the backstage…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat’s the Matter with Kansas?
In John and Christine’s absence, Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson and COMMENTARY contributing editor and “The Reeducation” podcast host…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRest in Hell, Ayman al-Zawahiri
The podcast celebrates the neutralization of al-Qaeda operative Ayman al-Zawahiri, and wonders where the right is on the global war on terrorism these days…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow Conspiracy Theories Are Born
Tech commentary columnist James B. Meigs is back on the show today to talk about how the scientific community’s conduct creates environments where…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Media's Biden Wishcasting
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss the strange surge of stories about how Joe Biden is on the verge of triumph just as inflation is getting…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNone Dare Call It a Recession
Today's podcast takes up the mainstream media carry water for the Biden White House after the sobering news of a second straight quarter of negative economic…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMayor Pete Beats Biden? Huh?
Today's podcast takes up the absolutely horrible polling for the president this week, showing him at an all-time low for post-war presidents at this stage of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Return of the COVID Psychos
Today's podcast takes up the startling new media tour undertaken by Anthony Fauci and a gobsmacking article in the New York Times that essentially tells…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYou Can’t Handle the Truth
Eli Lake joins the show today to discuss a crisis of legitimacy among elite institutions that don’t believe you can handle the truth. From the economy, to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTwo Sick Presidents
Today's podcast takes up Joe Biden's COVID diagnosis and some of the most appalling moments from the January 6 hearings. Give a listen. Learn more about your…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs the Wave of Madness Cresting?
The various manias that have overtaken popular political culture, which we itemize, are beginning to incur backlashes the likes of which we would not have seen…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhere Did It All Go Wrong?
Partisans on both sides of the spectrum are increasingly disinclined to recognize the legitimacy of political outcomes they don’t like. How did this happen?…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe're Back and It's Hot
After a three-show break, the COMMENTARY crew is back to talk about the crisis engulfing the world of progressives, which is to say, the crisis that crises are…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Inflation Crisis Grows As Biden Lands in Israel
Dan Senor joins the podcast today to talk about the horrible inflation numbers and the meaning of Biden’s Mideast trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Then the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJill Biden's Taco Tuesday
Today’s podcast features Matt Continetti and Jim Meigs talking about Jill Biden’s jaw-dropping gaffe in addressing a “LatinX IncluXion Luncheon” in Texas, Elon…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDid 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThey'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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDeferential 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…
The Commentary Magazine Podcast‘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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAllegations 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastChristine 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastInto 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill 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 Commentary Magazine PodcastBibi'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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOpen 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe'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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastElections, 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDo 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHeated 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThat'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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSo 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe 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…