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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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Episodes
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy Is Rita Moreno Apologizing?
Today we begin the podcast with talk about Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin before getting to the hot topic of the day—an apology proffered by a showbiz legend for…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Listener Protests!
Today’s podcast features a response from all of us to a great letter from a listener who believes John is far too harsh about the question of who gets…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden in Europe, Critical Race Theory, and Where Is Fauci?
What did Biden say about the GOP and Vladimir Putin on foreign shores? Attacked one and praised the other? We talk about that on today’s podcast, as well as…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBibi Goes Bye-Bye
Bret Stephens joins the podcast crew today to discuss the change in Israel’s government—and the complex legacy of Benjamin Netanyahu. Then we talk NATO, Biden…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Inner Toobin
Does Jeffrey Toobin deserve to be treated with compassion and forgiveness when woke culture is busy showing the opposite of both to anyone that crosses it? And…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Democrats Saving Joe Biden from His Party
The progressive left is having a fit over its more moderate members, who have failed to support their transformative designs. But aren’t they saving Joe…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastVoting Myths and the Woke Aristocracy
Chris Stirewalt joins us today to discuss his brilliant COMMENTARY article, “Republicans, Stop Believing Your Own Election Myth,” before we get to the question…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Democrats’ Kamala Harris Conundrum
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a hilariously bad response to NBC’s Lester Holt when she was asked why she hadn’t visited the border yet amid her…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSex, Lies, and Basil
Today’s podcast points out our continuing cultural confusion when it comes to political correctness, law, and the mistreatment of women before moving on to the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLiberal Pieties, Meet Hard Facts
The disappointing jobs report will be answered by an explosion of cliches, we say on today’s podcast, but the ability of the Biden administration and liberals…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Terrible Consensus
Tech Commentary columnist James Meigs joins the program to talk about his latest piece for the magazine “Thank God for Big Pharma.” We discuss the “lab leak”…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDishonesty and Deflation
Financial guru David Bahnsen joins us today for a deep dive into the COVID numbers and offers his fascinating take on why the threat to the future is not…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe End of COVID Is Nigh
The numbers don’t lie. We’re weeks away from the pandemic being over in the United States, and yet the bitter clingers still threaten our future. Why? And why…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Chinese Dragon’s Missing Scale
The rehabilitation of the “lab leak” theory of COVID-19’s origins in the press is now accompanied by the Biden administration calling for an investigation. But…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYou Like Us! You Really Like Us!
We channel Sally Field’s notorious Oscar speech in offering thanks to listeners for their kind words in response to our inquiry yesterday about whether we…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Decline Mentality
Though it is particularly true of New York City, it’s apparent across this country: The political class has lost its enthusiasm and affection for the nation…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Pandemic’s End
New positive COVID tests are at or approaching historic lows across the United States. Deaths and hospitalizations are reaching rates associated with a typical…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt's the Pick-Your-Own-Topic Show!
Today we try something new: Each panelist chooses a topic. We talk about the effort to equate anti-Semitism with Islamophobia. We talk about whether the Biden…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Violence Against Jews and the Democrats’ Complicity
Street violence targeting American Jews is on the rise across America. It is being provoked and condoned by progressives within the Democratic establishment…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGaza, Commissions, and Pipelines
Today’s podcast goes over the latest in the ideological war of the Left against Israel, the political hijinx over the January 6 commission, and what on earth…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCommentary Podcast
All the news is good. All the trends are great. Why are the media focusing their sympathetic attention on people who seem to want to live in perpetual…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGaza Madness and Masking Madness
The first podcast of the week takes up the continuing assaults on Israel’s defensive action against Hamas in Gaza and the continuing confusion over the lifting…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTake Off Your Masks, America!
Today’s podcast asks what changed that made it possible for the president to announce the end of masking for vaccinated Americans? Was this the result of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastInflation at Home and Conflation Abroad
Inflationary signals are glowing red hot, and it’s starting to scare the markets. Will the Biden administration and Democrats be similarly spooked? Also, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIsrael Under Attack—from Hamas and Liberals
On today’s podcast, I read my exchanges yesterday with my sister from her bomb shelter in Tel Aviv to give listeners a real-time sense of what it’s like to be…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe So-Called Experts and Their Lack of Expertise
Today’s podcast takes up the catastrophic error made by the Centers for Disease Control in assessing the risk from outdoor transmission of COVID, as detailed…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Numbers Are Really Good
Today’s podcast exults in what can only be called exit-velocity numbers about the pandemic and a shift in tone from the panjandra of the public-health…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Consequences of Bad Policies
On today’s podcast: Unfortunate job numbers—job creation expected to be around 1 million coming in at 266,000 instead—may be the perfect expression of how…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Biden Plan to Kill the Golden Goose
Joe Biden’s administration has inexplicably decided to abrogate the intellectual property rights of vaccine manufacturers to satisfy a fringe progressive…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastA Vaccine Strategy Revamp? What Vaccine Strategy?
The long knives are out for Liz Cheney within the GOP, but does ousting this meddlesome priest from her role in leadership really serve Republican interests…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLeaving Biden Behind in the Race to Reopen
Blue states like New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are following the leads set by Texas and Florida and racing to reopen, regardless of the Biden…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe New Silent Majority?
Is wokeness creating anew the force Richard Nixon called the "silent majority"? And why are fully vaccinated people still wearing masks after the CDC said they…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDissent Is Patriotic
According to Joe Biden, wearing a mask even if you’re fully vaccinated and everyone around you is fully vaccinated, is now patriotic. But is patriotism so…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Bidding War Presidency
Joe Biden made a lot of promises in last night’s semi-State of the Union address, most of which involved spending vast sums of money. But will this promissory…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho Is Still Listening to the CDC?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their long-anticipated masking guidelines for the fully vaccinated and it turns out that your…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho’s Doing the Culture Warring Here?
The podcast discusses a heartening display of defiance in France to protest the unjust verdict rendered in the anti-Semitic murder of Sarah Halimi, which…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastUnmasking the Oscars and John Kerry
Today's podcast discusses what it means that the Oscars were so badly executed, whether we're about to be released from having to wear masks outside, and what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Wild and Unachievable Ambitions
The podcast takes up Joe Biden's determination to cut carbon emissions in half in nine years and what such a ludicrous promise means politically. What does it…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBelieve Your Own Eyes
The COMMENTARY gang expresses its shock and disbelief at the ability of liberals and the Biden White House to disregard the unmistakable evidence in the police…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSecond-Guessing the Chauvin Jury
A jury of 12 peers listened to the evidence and rendered a verdict. Before the verdict, the jury's impartiality was questioned by the Left. After, it's being…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBack In Studio!
The first COMMENTARY podcast in 14 months with three regulars in our podcast studio at our New York offices! Is normalcy returning? Ehhh.... not really. Give a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho's Naming and Shaming?
Why does Rep. Maxine Waters get to call for "confrontation" in case the verdict in the George Floyd case doesn't go the way she wants? Shouldn't she be named…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhen They Say 'Don't Panic,' Maybe You Should Panic
Is inflation coming? The answer is "yes," but the experts are saying not to panic. Really? Ever lived through an inflationary spiral? We discuss that, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Yuval Levin Show
Our friend Yuval Levin joins the podcast today to talk about Democratic House members moving to pack the Supreme Court and pushing an extreme agenda in…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Is It Good For?
Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake joins the podcast today to discuss Joe Biden’s plan for withdrawing all NATO forces from Afghanistan on, of all dates, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe .00000088 Percent
James B. Meigs joins the podcast today to discuss the news that the FDA and CDC have "paused" the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and what it might mean. We also…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan We Remain Calm About Cops, Iran, and Variants?
Eliana Johnson of the Washington Free Beacon joins the podcast today to discuss the recent shooting near her hometown of Minneapolis, the worry about the South…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Truth About the George Floyd Trial
Today's podcast looks at the media coverage of the murder trial of police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis with the clear suggestion that the full story of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Great Overreach
On guns, illegal immigration, and schooling, Democrats from Joe Biden to Stacey Abrams to Andrew Cuomo to Randi Weingarten are pushing policy prescriptions and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Iran Deal Is Back—And So Is Crime
Today's podcast takes up the moves by the Biden administration to reopen talks with Iran, as well as the evidence that the crime spike of 2020 was not about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDid Anyone Sign up for This?
The gang engages in a series of generalized rants about the class-based COVID theatrics to which some are more committed than others and Joe Biden’s…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe '60 Minutes' Slander
Today’s podcast takes up the outrageous “60 Minutes” effort to defame Gov. Ron DeSantis and the vaccine rollout in Florida before we go on extended rants about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Big Government Bet
Noah Rothman returns from vacation to help us make sense of the Biden administration’s claim we need trillions in “infrastructure” spending at a time when job…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastStraight Talk About Race
Wilfred Reilly, author of this month’s COMMENTARY cover article, joins us to talk about “The Good News They Won’t Tell You About Race in America.” Give a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIsrael: Great Vaccinations, Horrible Elections
We’re joined today by Israeli journalist Ruthie Blum to discuss the bizarre phenomenon of Israel likely heading toward a fifth election in two years despite…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy Are the Bidenites Embracing Gloom and Doom?
Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss the interesting decision of the Biden administration to go apocalyptic about the COVID threat even as…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Chauvin Trial Begins
Today we take up the dangers posed by the trial of Derek Chauvin, charged with the murder of George Floyd, and the controversy over so-called “vaccine…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Beats the Press
How did President Biden do at his press conference? What went on at the Journal of the American Medical Association that will horrify you? Most important, how…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Will They Ask Biden?
A press conference is coming. How will the media try to shield the new president? What questions will they ask—and won’t they ask? Give a listen. Source Learn…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan Anyone Feel Shame Anymore?
The news that former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell is arguing that no one should have taken her claims regarding election fraud seriously suggests an…