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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPoor 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMoral 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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 Commentary Magazine PodcastWhen 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRejecting 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDemocrats 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastErasing 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLiberals 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAmerica 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastVance 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat’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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMusk'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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCommentary 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden'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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMask 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThrow 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDebating 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMinor 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPlaying 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFauci 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCommentary 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLoan 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThey 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCheaters, 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCrisis 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe 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…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy Are We So Fascinated by the Slap?
Today’s podcast wonders at the fact that 36 hours after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, the world is still obsessed with the story; could it be that we are…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhen There's a Will, There's a Slap
Matt Continetti joins the podcast to discuss the Oscar slap and what larger meaning it might have, before we discuss what larger meaning Joe Biden improvising…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThere Will Be a Reckoning
Covid may not be at the forefront of most voters’ minds anymore, but has the frustration with the mitigation measures imposed on the country faded? Or will…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow Dare You Ask Ketanji Brown Jackson Any Questions!
Today’s podcast expresses aghastness at the very idea that this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings were somehow more unfair than the ones in 2018…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastServants of the People
The podcast today takes up the fascinating fact that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was not a biologist and therefore could not define…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBelieving the Bad Guys
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to discuss his COMMENTARY column, “Believe Them.” We also talk about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first day of confirmation…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhose Ox Is Gored?
Did Volodymyr Zelensky commit a tactical error in his address to the Israeli Knesset? Has Russia’s advance in Ukraine stalled out? And will Republicans…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLaptop Claptrap and Swimming While Male
Today’s incendiary podcast goes after the mainstream media’s (and social media’s) disgraceful handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story before moving on to an…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Russian Decimation—and the Vindication of Neoconservatism
Today’s podcast discusses the astounding death and casualty estimates relating to the Russians in Ukraine and what they portend. Then we talk about my article…
The Commentary Magazine Podcast‘Glory to Ukraine'
Today’s podcast features an insta-reaction to Wlodymir Zelinskyy’s speech to Congress and what effect it will have on the already overwhelming American support…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho Is Bracing for Covid’s Return?
The news of a “stealth variant” emerging in Asia has news media on edge, but are they the only constituency left in America who is still bracing for renewed…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe New World Under Assault from the Old
Iran’s missile attack on U.S. positions in Iraq only highlights a problem the West has been reckoning with since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; that is the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat to Do Now That The World Has Changed
Newly minted COMMENTARY contributing editor Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss his blockbuster article, “The World Has Changed and We Must Change Along With…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCasually Pondering the Unthinkable
The Biden administration’s response to the crisis in Europe goes wobbly. Between the administration trying to demonize fossil fuel producers even as they…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs the January 6 Committee Blowing It?
The January 6 committee’s signal that it’s going to try to criminalize the very notion that the 2020 election was stolen suggests a temptation toward…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoes Saving Europe Require Sacrificing the Middle East?
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy’s Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to discuss the state of play in Ukraine and the West’s headlong rush into a…