Shows / The Commentary Magazine Podcast
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary is America's premier monthly magazine of opinion: General, yet Jewish. Highly variegated, with a unifying perspective.Listen to The Commentary Magazine Podcast, along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com. No paid subscription required.
Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Does It Mean to Be a Woman?
The disparity between the Omicron variant’s apparent severity and the public health response to it suggests that the pandemic isn’t really about the pandemic…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJussie Smollett and the Democratic Crime Crisis
Today’s podcast takes up the larger meaning of Jussie Smollett’s attempt to use the criminal-justice system as his catspaw and how it reveals a crisis in the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWait—Did Trump Just Expose a Colossal Security Crisis?
On today’s podcast, we discuss Donald Trump’s oddly casual revelation that he believes Russia stole our hypersonic technology research—and then that research…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt’s Over, Omarova
Did Senate Republicans make a mistake by giving in to a one-time debt ceiling increase that circumvents the legislative filibuster? Is Biden responding with…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOmicronic Fatigue
A report out of South Africa confirms the rumors: the Omicron variant is less severe even though it is more contagious. That is good news, so why isn’t it…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Democrats’ Perpetual Pandemic Trap
Daniel Casse, president of the G100 Chief Executive program, joins the podcast this morning to discuss the trap in which Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFolksy Impotence
The Biden administration is improvising its way through a new Covid panic, projecting impotency along the way. Speaking of impotency, Russia is sending signals…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill Abortion Tear the Country Apart?
Constitutional law scholar Adam White joins the podcast today to discuss the abortion rights case before the Supreme Court, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Fate of Chris Cuomo and CNN
It’s a busy podcast today as we take up the limited evidence that the new variant justifies the draconian measures now being imposed in Europe and being…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Threat of Om… Omni… Omnicrom…
The podcast wonders at Joe Biden’s inability to pronounce the name of the variant he went on national television to warn against—and tries to sort through what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOmicronic Condition
Today’s podcast asks whether there’s a crazed overreaction to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. We then discuss the car that killed people in Waukesha…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBad Prosecutors, Bad Laws, Bad Anti-Patriots
Today’s pre-Thanksgiving episode offers our own crushingly morose tribute to the United States as we battle the phenomenon of prosecutors letting people loose…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAmerican Adhocracy
The Biden administration is making the strategic petroleum reserve available to the markets seemingly only in response to his sagging polls, which observers…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrashing the Jury System
On today’s podcast, we discuss the reaction to the Rittenhouse verdicts, the continuing effort to talk up the Biden social-spending bill, and the horror in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Book of David
David Bahnsen joins the podcast today to talk about the Build Back Better bill and why its passage in the House might be at best politically meaningless for…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Have We Voted Ourselves?
Did Paul Gosar deserve to be censured for tweeting out an anime video that appeared to threaten his colleagues? Does Lauren Boebert have a point about Eric…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhere is Biden on COVID?
Yuval Levin joins the podcast today as we mark the fact that 70 percent of the population of the United States 12 and over is fully vaccinated—a point when we…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Media and Academia Circle the Wagons
Today’s podcast takes up the question of what the mainstream media deem permissible and praiseworthy when it comes to political coverage—and how discipline is…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Biden People Just Keep Getting More Bad News
Today’s podcast examines the Washington Post-ABC poll that has Democrats curled up in a fetal position today and the efforts to happy-talk it down. Will they…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Pincers Problem
The podcast today takes up a new poll that suggests Democrats and independents are entirely at cross purposes when it comes to big spending, so if Joe Biden…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastInflation, COVID, and Rittenhouse
Today’s podcast takes up the political fallout from inflation and continued COVID restrictions and the surprising events in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. Give…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Real Story of The Israel-Gaza War
The podcast crew is joined today by our pal Jonathan Schanzer, whose illuminating new book Gaza Conflict 2021 provides an eye-opening account of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHere Comes the Durham Investigation
Eli Lake joins the podcast crew today to talk about the stunning developments in the investigation into the 2016 efforts to demonstrate the Trump campaign’s…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJudging the Democratic ‘Comeback'
Should we eat crow because Democrats did pass a big spending bill? We say we have no crow to eat, but you might disagree! Give a listen. Source Learn more…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Bill House Democrats Want Will Destroy Them
Today’s podcast goggles at the prospect of Democrats in the House passing a gigantic spending bill that will be dead on arrival in the Senate—and hand…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's Even Worse for Democrats Than They Know
Chris Stirewalt joins us on the podcast today for continued analysis of the electoral trainwreck for Democrats this week and what on earth they think they’re…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWow. The Elections. Wow.
The startling results in Virginia and New Jersey—not to mention on Long Island and in Buffalo and Minneapolis—mean that we’re living in a different country…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan't Anybody Here Play This Political Game?
More evidence of Democratic disarray in Washington yesterday, and the confusing apparent decline of Democratic hopes in the Virginia governor’s race, bring to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLet's Go, Brandon?
Today’s podcast covers a panoply of topics, from the foolishness and corruption of the “Lincoln Project’ to whether a three-word slogan should be considered an…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe Told You It Was Going to Be a Disaster
Today’s podcast features a cautious victory lap from the crew—who pretty much predicted the slapstick collapse of Joe Biden and the Democrats yesterday on…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Great Democratic Faceplant
On Tuesday, Joe Biden and his allies sent political observers into a frenzy with the announcement that a deal had been reached on a social safety net bill. But…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Eternal Return of the Democrats’ Infrastructure Debacle
The Democratic Party is flirting with failing to meet a deadline to pass both physical and social infrastructure in precisely the same way they failed weeks…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTake Their Money and Run!
Today’s podcast takes up the so-called “billionaires tax” that is the hot topic in Washington and subjects it to scrutiny—is it constitutional? will it…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe COVID Story Is Coming Out
James B. Meigs joins today’s podcast to discuss his two articles in the November issue of Commentary. One, “COVID and the Authorities: It’s Even Worse Than We…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat It Means to Be Courageous
Bari Weiss joins the COMMENTARY podcast to discuss her article in the new issue: “We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out With Courage.” She outlines the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho's Laughing Now?
Can laughter survive the scrutiny of self-serious social justice activists? Director, producer, and screenwriter of such hits as “Airplane!” and the “Naked…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFirst, Do No Harm
The podcast welcomes former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Tevi Troy back to discuss his article in the latest issue of COMMENTARY, “Wokeness…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat George Orwell Knew About Wokeness
Wilfred Reilly joins the podcast today to talk about his essential article, “The Whiteness of Wokeness.” As we discuss the phenomenon of well-to-do Caucasians…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastColin Powell, American
Today’s podcast pays tribute to Colin Powell’s extraordinary American story and asks why his memoir isn’t taught in schools while memoirs about racial…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNow They're Trying to Cancel Netflix—and Space Exploration!
The last podcast of the week finds us in a ruminative mood as we discuss Dave Chappelle’s controversial special and the finger-wagging response to it—and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump Threatens the GOP
Today’s podcast takes up Donald Trump’s statement that Republican voters will not turn out to vote unless the 2020 vote is somehow resolved in his favor. What…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Mechanics of ‘Popularism'
A discussion about the lingering and unknowable negative health effects of mid-pandemic mitigation measures that may not even be fully visible to us for years…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastVaccine Mandate Craziness
The podcast crew takes up the new effort in Texas to prevent private businesses from requiring employees to vaccinate, and what it says about the politics of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Agonistes
Liberals are beginning to panic about the decline of Joe Biden’s popularity and what it might mean, and we’re there to help explain it to them! Also, what’s…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastKicking the Debt Limit Can Down the Road: Who Benefits?
Today’s podcast takes up the question of whether McConnell blinked, why Schumer attacked a deal that gave him a face-saving way out, why Manchin put his head…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs He a Fool or an Idiot?
Today’s podcast looks at a Quinnipiac poll that has very bad news for Joe Biden in it and wonders at the choices he’s made that have led him to this pass. How…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Wrong Way to Deal with Facebook
Today’s podcast takes up the charges of the Facebook whistleblower and asks whether her perspective is the right one or whether she misunderstands the nature…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhen Crime Gets Close to You
The podcasters today consider crime up close and personal—yesterday I was in proximity to four different acts of violence and another was nearly burglarized…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWait, Why Are They Saying It's Good They Failed?
The podcast crew expresses puzzlement at the Democratic party spin that the failure of both big spending bills this weekend needs to be viewed as some kind of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLosing Is Winning, Spending Costs Nothing—and Other Liberal Delusions
Today’s podcast notes that liberal opinion seems determined to cast the left’s refusal to spend $1 trillion because it wants to spend $4.5 trillion as some…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastProgressive Failure Is Manchin's Success
Today’s podcast explains why Joe Manchin will never, ever, ever, ever do anything near what the progressives in his party want—because it would be the end of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAre Politicians Lying More?
The revelations yesterday that emerged from Congressional testimony featuring two top officials involved in the Afghanistan debacle reveal Joe Biden to be as…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe Need Our Own ‘Music Man’
Between rising crime rates and contradictory reporting on how the Afghanistan pullout failed so spectacularly, the COMMENTARY podcast could use what Donald…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden, AOC, Trollope, and the Tonys
Today’s podcast asks the question: What do America’s most famous leftist member of Congress and Anthony Trollope’s fictional 19th-century political character…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastConstitutional Crisis, Shmonstitutional Crisis
Today’s podcast takes up Robert Kagan’s much-discussed Washington Post piece claiming a Trump constitutional crisis is already upon us. Is it, though? Give a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastShould Republicans Pop the Popcorn?
Today’s podcast asks whether the signs of Democratic crackup are so pronounced that those who oppose Biden and Company should just sit back and watch in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSuppressing Speech and Going After Israel
Today’s podcast points out the continuing scandal of the media’s and Big Tech’s efforts to suppress stories they don’t like—both about Hunter Biden and about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's Not All About the Base
Today’s podcast asks why the Biden people immediately assumed horseback Border patrol officers trying to deal with the overwhelming problems in Texas were…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Cascade of Bad News
Today’s podcast takes up Biden’s horrid Friday afternoon, with three bad pieces of news in an hour—and the coming crisis within the Democratic party over its…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Lost Thread
Today's podcast looks at the increasing Republican-conservative tendency to support the actions of the mob on January 6, the consequences therefrom—and asks…