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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 PodcastSocial Anxiety Is Controlling America
Should we feel sorry for the poor Biden people who find themselves on the knife’s edge when it comes to border security? And should we feel sorry for ourselves…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastChina Sandbags the Biden People
The podcast today takes up the alarming spectacle of the first major diplomatic meeting of the Biden administration, at which senior Chinese officials…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat the Killings Say About Us
On today’s COMMENTARY podcast: The mass murder of Asian-American women in an attack in Georgia, the apparently sexual motive behind those killings, and the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Biden Clean-Up Squad
After yesterday's podcast highlighted Biden's homeland security secretary all but inviting illegal aliens to cross the border—but later on–George…
The Commentary Magazine Podcast'Don't Come Now. Come Later!'
The Biden administration's homeland security secretary went on Good Morning America and suggested to those streaming across the border and the parents who are…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Ideas of March
Christine goes to a demonstration. Liberals act like the Biden administration has brought Christmas every day. Andrew Cuomo sends his sub-goon to scare New…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Wants To Tell You What To Do and When
Today's podcast analyzes Joe Biden's speech to the nation regarding the pandemic and asks whether he's remaining funereal about the present and immediate…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Social Media Torture Chamber
Today's podcast reflects on how the purpose of social media is increasingly as a forum for cruelty–and why that is so seductive to so many people. Also, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden the Credit Hog
The popular "relief" bill and the vaccine rollout accelerations put Joe Biden in the catbird seat, setting himself up to take credit both for our emergence…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLiberal Gaslighting
Today's podcast takes up the question of whether Bernie Sanders could have been as functionally left-wing as president as Joe Biden is being. And what is this…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Era of Big Government Is Back
The $1.9 trillion relief and stimulus bill returns us to the era of big government, as we discuss today on the podcast. We also talk about the problems of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCuomo's Tell-Tale Heart
The news just keeps getting worse for New York's governor, with state officials saying they feared for their jobs if they did not participate in a cover-up of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho's Running the Biden Show?
A day of confusion in Washington as the Biden administration says it wants schools reopened but then also seems to implicitly agree with the teachers' unions…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTexas Lightens Up
Today's podcast looks at the decision of Texas Gov. Abbott to loosen all state-level mandates relating to the coronavirus and asks whether this is a worthy…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCuomosexuality
Today's podcast wonders at the possibility of Andrew Cuomo being destroyed not by his nursing-home scandal but because of sexual harassment. What's a bigger…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Good Vaccine News and the Bad Governor
Today's podcast expresses optimism and relief at the continuing good news on the vaccine front and expresses schadenfreude at the continuing troubles of Gov…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Biden Game on Iran and Stimulus
The podcasters end the week arguing over the meaning of the Biden administration's decision to strike Iranian targets even as they attempt to reenter Obama's…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCuomo’s Ugliness and the Horror at Smith College
Today's podcast takes up the consequences of Andrew Cuomo's unambiguously repellent sexual harassment of an Albany aide as well as the nightmarish false…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Seductions of Top-Down Control
With the good news about the vaccine, the question that faces us (and the podcast crew today) is how will the politicians who have exercised such extraordinary…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWoke Self-Destruction: Should We Enjoy It Or Worry?
Today's podcast examines the latest blowup in the Cultural Revolution overtaking journalism, as Slate defenestrates a staffer who actually did something…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhy Do They Want Us to Be Depressed?
The vaccine news, especially out of Israel, is startlingly good—especially as regards the transmissibility of the coronavirus. So why, the podcast crew asks…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCuomo and Cruz: Politicians In a Pickle
The podcast crew enjoys watching Andrew Cuomo's halo turn into a shackle, and wonders at the larger meaning of Ted Cruz's self-inflicted disaster of a trip to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHere Comes the Overreach
Congressional Democrats haven’t even passed their proposed $2 trillion COVID relief package and they’re already talking about teeing up a multi-trillion-dollar…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden's Freezing Out Bibi
Why are Andrew Cuomo's poll numbers still strong? Why is Joe Biden making anti-Israel personnel moves at the State Department and refusing to talk to Benjamin…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump Isn't Going Anywhere
The podcast achieves new heights, or lows, of crushing morosity today as we contemplate the botched impeachment trial—botched by Democrats!—and the new "how to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastImpeach... Cuomo?
Today's podcast looks at the third day of the impeachment trial and raises questions about the effectiveness of the Democratic case. Then we talk about the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Rioters Were Role-Playing
Today's podcast looks at the narrative presented at the impeachment trial and how it reveals the disturbing nature of a riot whose participants seemed to have…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastUnfrozen Caveman Impeachment
How bad were Trump's lawyers? Does it matter? How good were the House managers? Does it matter? Does anything matter? How about opening schools—and why are…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Democrats Are Bailing on Their Own Impeachment
The podcast today takes note of the Democratic hunger to get the Senate impeachment trial over with as quickly as possible so they can hand out $2 trillion…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Super Bowl's War on Fun
Can we ever enjoy ourselves again? That's the question the podcast crew says was raised by the lame commercials at last night's Super Bowl—and by the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoing Too Much and Not Enough
The Commentary podcast on the risks in the new stimulus, Ben Sasse’s admonition of his state’s Republicans, and warmth of the spotlight on public health…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Is the Proper Level of Crippling Despair?
Here’s the good news: The House Republican conference voted overwhelmingly against punishing Rep. Liz Cheney for her vote to impeach Donald Trump in defiance…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Great Escape from COVID
Have liberals finally had enough? Are they going to break discipline once they get the vaccine and stop insisting everyone wear three masks? And why does the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Political Future Is Being Decided Right Now
The podcast says Joe Biden's choice of negotiating with Republicans or ramming his own COVID deal through represents a hinge moment for his presidency only 13…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill Biden Play 'Let's Make a Deal'?
Today's podcast raises the specter of a negotiation between the new president and ten Republicans who offer the possibility of a bipartisan deal on COVID…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGovernor of Doom
The podcast goes at Andrew Cuomo hammer and tong as the whistle is blown by a fellow Democrat in New York state on his handling of the coronavirus. But that's…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIt’s All in the GameStop
The COMMENTARY Podcast is not the place you want to turn for stock market tips but we do have something to say about the political and cultural meaning of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Unleashed
Today's podcast takes up the executive order frenzy of the new administration and Biden's embrace of critical race theory and the teachers' unions' view of how…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWho's Going to Look More Extreme?
Today’s podcast asks whether the Democrats are both overplaying their hand politically and setting themselves up to seem like extremists in 2022 or whether…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTell Us Something About COVID We Can Trust
Today's podcast gets into the COVID confusion of the moment and the continuing refusal of elected officials and public-health people to speak the simple truth…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAcute Psychological Crisis Alert!
Today's podcast features the gang playing psychiatrist as we try to analyze the claim of a New York Times columnist that she has been in an emotional prison…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastIs This What Biden's Voters Actually Want?
Today's podcast takes up Joe Biden's early executive actions and the complaints by his COVID czar that they've been left no plan to implement, which is a…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastInaugurating the Biden Era with Meghan McCain
Host of ABC’s “The View,” Meghan McCain, joins the podcast today to talk about Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, the fallout from the January 6 Capitol…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Media Won't Quit Trump
Today's podcast takes up the surreal fact that Joe Biden will be president, and Donald Trump will not be president—and yet it still feels like Trump is the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump's Gift to Biden
Bret Stephens, newly minted COMMENTARY contributing editor, joins the podcast today to discuss his blockbuster article, "Memo to President Biden: Please Don't…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastShall I Eat an Impeach?
Today’s podcast takes up the second impeachment and the quandary facing the Senate as regards the trial of Donald Trump. Will it involve an assault on free…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Uncharted Waters of Impeachment 2
Today’s podcast anticipates the House’s vote to impeach Donald Trump a second time and where things go from here—is this the worst possible way to do something…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Impeachment Calculation
Congress once again compelled to take up an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and the old political calculations are making a comeback…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDeplatform Shoes
Our podcast today is supersized as we take on the aftermath of the riots, the removal of Trump from Twitter and the removal of Parler from the Internet, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Long Fight Ahead
With the fallout settling from the siege of the Capitol Building, it has become clear that there should be serious consequences to render that event…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Is to Be Done?
The insurrection staged by Donald Trump yesterday is the focus of our podcast today, and what remedies should or could be adopted to deal with one of the most…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Dems Take It All
The podcast considers the meaning of the Democratic victories in Georgia and the fact that four years ago Republicans had secured control of the House, the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Year That Changed Everything… 1971? Really?
Today’s podcast steps back from day-to-day politics to feature our friend Daniel Casse discussing his fascinating Wall Street Journal op-ed, “The Future Turns…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastNew Year, Same Old
First podcast of 2021: Trump’s astounding phone call, Cuomo’s COVID response, conspiracy theorizing… What year is this again? Give a listen. Source Learn more…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOne Last Parting Insult
Outgoing President Donald Trump issues two final insults to the American people on his way out the door by throwing a wrench into negotiations over a new COVID…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe Ain’t No Delinquents, We’re Misunderstood
Increasingly, the progressive left has abandoned the cause of decriminalization in favor of decarceration, expanding the terms of the debate around criminal…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBuild Back Smaller
The new round of stimulus, a more infectious strain of COVID-19 emerging in the U.K., Donald Trump’s latest episodes of impotent flailing in the general…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastPoliticizing the Vaccine
The podcast takes up the horrendous "medical ethics" talk surrounding the distribution of the vaccine, as well as the roles of luck and gratitude in American…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Liberal Puritans
Today's podcast concerns Biden-team attacks on "terrible" Republicans, whether Biden himself was too negative in his "I won" speech earlier this week—and why…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCOVID Fundamentalists; Guilty and Framed
Eli Lake joins the podcast to talk about his blockbuster COMMENTARY essay "Guilty and Framed." Also, we ask: Why are talking-head doctors and public health…