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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Other Insurrection
California Gov. Gavin Newsom easily survives the effort to recall him from office. Are there lessons for Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterms here? Also, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSomewhere Over the Horizon, Lies Are Told
Today's podcast takes up the dishonesties of Secretary of State Blinken, the self-discrediting idea of "over the horizon" intelligence, fake polls supporting a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan the Damage Be Undone?
In the wake of a somber 9/11 anniversary, the COMMENTARY podcast surveys the depressing intellectual and political landscape that typifies American discourse…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Neurotic Pitch and the 9/11 Anniversary
Today's podcast takes up Joe Biden's COVID speech and plans and asks how we are to understand a president who says you have nothing to fear if you're…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSolving the Hostage Crisis You Started
We're back after the Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah break to discuss the Biden administration's negotiations with terrorists and the praise it's getting for doing…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Bad News Bidens
Today's podcast deals with the onslaught of lousy headlines and developments surrounding the president, from horrible jobs numbers to Delta fatalities to polls…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAbortion Comes Roaring to the Fore
Today's podcast takes up the Supreme Court's refusal to stay Texas's new restrictive abortion law and asks whether its existence heralds the beginning of a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastJoe Biden's Disgraceful Speech
Today's podcast takes a long, hard, close, serious, and polemical look at Joe Biden's self-justifying address to the American people on the Afghan catastrophe…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPhilip Larkin and the End of the Afghan War
Today's podcast is about consequences: Who deserves to be held responsible for the debacle in Afghanistan and why. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNo, We Weren't There to Bring Democracy
Today's podcast tries again to take up the ludicrous argument that our purpose in Afghanistan was to install a liberal democracy. We also talk about the labor…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Fails to Meet the Measure of the Moment
On Thursday, at least 13 Americans and over 100 Afghan civilians were killed in two suicide attacks on the outskirts of Kabul’s international airport. The…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Price of Dishonor
The whole crew is back together to discuss an inadvertently telling op-ed by Ezra Klein that defends the dishonorable behavior of the United States in the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Democrats’ Crumbling Legacy
Between the debacle in Afghanistan, the return of pandemic-related pessimism, and what Nancy Pelosi admitted was the “controversial” $3.5 trillion budget deal…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHostages Abroad and Hostage at Home
Author and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, joins the podcast today to talk about the ongoing nightmare in Afghanistan, which is evolving from a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Afghanistan Pullout Fallout Settles on the Biden White House
John Podhoretz is out today enjoying some well-deserved time away from the microphone. The nightmare in Afghanistan continued over the weekend and, despite the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat’s Wrong with the President?
Joe Biden’s behavior over the course of the Afghanistan crisis he precipitated is inexplicable. But we do our best to try to explain it anyway. Also, is there…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Horrible Interview
Today's podcast considers George Stephanopoulos's jaw-dropping interview with the president and his assertions that he knew the chaos in Afghanistan was…
The Commentary Magazine Podcast'You Chose Dishonor and You Shall Have War'
Today's podcast wonders at the bet Joe Biden has placed on the possibility that the chaos in Afghanistan relating to the exit of Americans will be short-lived…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPessimism Abroad, Optimism at Home
The founding editor of National Affairs, Yuval Levin, joins the podcast today to talk about the implosion of Afghanistan and Joe Biden’s shame as well as his…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Fall of Afghanistan
The Afghan government has fallen to the Taliban, and only over the course of a single weekend. The Commentary podcast on the terrible implications of America’s…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDecline Is a Choice, and We’ve Chosen It
Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake joins the program today to talk about America’s decision to scrap 20 years of work and progress in Afghanistan. Why it didn’t have…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoes the Squad Want to Sink the Biden Presidency?
Will the so-called “Squad” of House progressives really want to block the Biden administration’s signature achievement, infrastructure, if they can’t get their…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoes Cuomo Have a Scheme?
Today's podcast brings up the question: Why did Andrew Cuomo date his resignation fourteen days away? What is this Machiavellian schemer up to? And as the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastEMERGENCY PODCAST: Cuomo Resigns!
We've reconvened today to offer our quick thoughts on the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, the bipartisan nature of sex scandals, the way people try to save…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYou Say You Want a Revolution?
Democrats are placing a big bet on the American voting public’s desire for a radical transformation of the social compact with their $3.5 trillion…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Belle Tolls for Andrew Cuomo
Today's podcast takes up the desertion of Andrew Cuomo by his closest aide, the unfolding horror in Afghanistan as America bugs out, and the COVID panic. Give…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAll Culture, No Punditry!
Today's surprising podcast doesn't feature the news of the day; instead, we talk about Smokey and the Bandit. And Last Exit to Brooklyn. And 42nd Street. And…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDo Unconstitutional Things, Mr. President! That's a Squad Order!
Today's podcast takes up the glee with which Democratic legislators greeted Joe Biden's decision to...usurp legislative authority. What's going on here? And…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Psychopathy of Andrew Cuomo
Karol Markowicz joins us today to discuss the damning report on Andrew Cuomo's behavior toward women, the meaning of the victory of the less radical candidate…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy the Elite Want You to Panic This Time
James B. Meigs joins the podcast today to talk about, what else, the bizarre behavior of the CDC in relation to the pandemic. And we have a fun argument about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Lunatics Running the COVID Asylum
Today's podcast is a threnody of denunciation: Of the CDC, of the Biden administration's haplessness, and of the seemingly deliberate disinformation regarding…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs the Spending the Problem?
There is a bipartisan infrastructure deal, and it looks likely to pass. The smorgasbord of other progressive wish list items that was supposed to follow its…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Awfulness of the New COVID Mandates
Today’s podcast takes up the fulfillment of what we’ve been warning against—the public-health people are lowering the boom again in a self-defeating effort to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Anti-Patriotic Olympics
American athletes are having a tough time at the Olympics. On today’s podcast, we suggest various causes, among them that there is no longer a psychic benefit…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThey Want Emergency Powers Permanently
As the pressure grows to return America to a condition of mini-lockdown, we examine the words and ideas of the public-health bureaucracy that is horrified by…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Coming Revolt of the Vaccinated
With municipalities around the country reimposing indoor masking recommendations or even mandates, no one seems to be asking whether the fully vaccinated will…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs Pelosi Brilliant or Blowing It?
Did Nancy Pelosi make a mistake by rejecting two more pro-Trump Republicans from the January 6 commission? Or is she once again making a strategic blunder?…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrashing the Explorers
Today’s podcast continues our conversation from yesterday about the Jeff Bezos expedition and the hunger among elite liberals to heap scorn and derision upon…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe Should Be Proud
Today’s passionate podcast features praise for the American people when it comes to vaccination and serious querying why we are turning this amazing national…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan the Vaccine-Hesitant Be Convinced?
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review joins us today to discuss his controversial NR piece, “Convincing the Skeptics,” which caused a firestorm on…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCuba, and Masks, and Throuples—Oh, My!
Today’s podcast features COMMENTARY columnist Matthew Continetti joining us to ruminate upon the Biden administration’s response to the events in Cuba, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Dems Are Not Playing 4-D Chess
The podcast crew expresses skepticism at the notion that Biden and the Democrats have a brilliant strategy to get their $3.5 trillion spending bill passed. And…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's Not Manly to Refuse the Vaccine
James B. Meigs joins today’s podcast to discuss the Delta variant surge and the continuing refusal of many on the Right to act to contravene it. We also talk…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRun Away! Run Away!
Washington Free Beacon Editor-in-Chief Elianna Johnson joins the program today in Christine Rosen’s absence to talk about Texas Democrats’ tactical retreat…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSurges and Purges
Noah Rothman is back after a week away from the podcast to offer his two cents on the Delta variant surge and how it’s affecting conservative media and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBug Juice and Bugouts
Today’s hodgepodge of a podcast takes up our personal histories of summer camp, Joe Biden’s speech on Afghanistan, the conversion of COVID into a seasonal flu…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCOVID, Class Action, and Clowns
We talk about the recent uptick in U.S. COVID cases, the ever-elusive end of the pandemic, and the skepticism around vaccines and lockdowns. We touch on Donald…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNew York Politics, with Steve Kornacki
Our friend Steve Kornacki joins the podcast today to talk about the results of the New York City primary in the Democratic party and what they say about the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLiberals are Gaslighting Themselves
The leftist attacks on America around July 4 may prove to be the unforced error of all unforced errors, or so we say on today’s (sadly Noah-free) podcast. We…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAmerica the Wonderful
It’s the Fourth of July weekend and we spend the podcast defending America from the nonsense of NPR, the liberal notion that America is a bad actor on the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Legacy of Great Men and Awful Men
On today’s podcast: What happened in the Bill Cosby case? How best can we discuss the extraordinary life of Donald Rumsfeld, RIP? What is ballot harvesting?…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBlue States Are More Incompetent Than Red States
Today’s podcast looks at the disaster of the New York Democratic mayoral primary and what it says about the way liberal cities and states work. And more…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMel Brooks, COVID and Iran (But Not In That Order)
Today’s podcast concludes with a commemoration of the life and career of 95-year-old Mel Brooks and what they have to teach us—and how we need to restore what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden, Aliens, Angels, Demons, DeSantis
Matthew Continetti joins today’s podcast, which features a conversation about aliens and God so deep that you may think we were high or drunk while recording…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDid Biden Just Torpedo His Own Bipartisan Promises?
On the final podcast of the week, we try to make sense out of Joe Biden praising bipartisan dealmaking before promising to pass everything left out of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHe's Not FDR. Maybe He's Jimmy Carter.
Today’s podcast takes up the conundrum of the politics within the Democratic Party that led to fantasies of a new New Deal, which have been subjected to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLiberals Talk Themselves Into a Frenzy
Today’s podcast tries to make sense out of the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating from Democrats about the failure of their largely unconstitutional voting bill…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLabs, Leaks, Politics and Pandemics
James. B. Meigs joins us again to discuss the important question of just why it was the idea of COVID originating from a lab leak was deemed undiscussable. We…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPeople Who Want to Stay in COVID Jail
The evidence is everywhere: An extraordinary number of people seem to prefer living under masks rather than accepting the data that say the pandemic is over…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhen Will Liberals Get Off the Party Line?
Today’s podcast discusses the amazing fact that conservative justices on the Supreme Court often go against what people say their political allies demand of…