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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 PodcastWhat If Biden Is the Unprecedented One?
The podcast raises the prospect that it's really Joe Biden's presidency that will be unprecedented—because he'll be the first president in many decades who…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTime for a Little Media Bashing
The podcast takes up the question of whether the Right's refusal to accept Joe Biden's victory is genuinely revolutionary or more of an enraged howl against…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWill Biden Screw Up the Middle East?
Dan Senor, co-author of Start-Up Nation and host of the new “Post Corona” podcast, joins us today to talk about the electoral college and who intimidated whom…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastMusk's Rockets' Red Glare
Tech COMMENTARY columnist James B. Meigs joins us today to discuss his piece, "We're Living in a New Space Age"—and the launch of the massive rocket yesterday…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Permanent Constitutional Crisis
The hosts look back on all the many crises Donald Trump’s behavior was expected to yield. And while his behavior is doubtlessly dangerous, it has not produced…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastP.J. O'Rourke Is Our Guest!
The COMMENTARY gang welcomes P.J. O'Rourke, first-time magazine contributor with his wonderful and acid piece "Shamalot" in our December issue, to the podcast…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Torment of Lockdowns
Andrew Ferguson joins the podcast today to discuss lockdown culture and what it's doing to small businesses, what's behind the idea that the election was…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastYou Had to Be a Big Shot, Didn't You
Will we split into a vaccinated/non-vaccinated society next year? That's the key subject of today's podcast, along with conspiracy theories, that old favorite…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAre They Trying to Lose Georgia?
Today's podcast takes up the bizarre situation in the Senate runoffs in Georgia and the developing fights inside the Democratic party pitting actually popular…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden Condescends
What did the president-elect mean when he invoked treating Trump voters with "dignity" in an interview? And how desperate is he to go back into the Iran…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Elite Thinks It Knows Best
Today's podcast takes up elite condescension—in advice on how to use words to convince people to be more responsible pandemic citizens and on the credentialism…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastEmergencies Aren't Supposed to Last Forever
Today's podcast takes up the Supreme Court's ruling on religious shutdowns, the COVID spike that doesn't quite seem as horrendous as the conventional wisdom…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhom Can We Trust? We Can Trust You.
Today's pre-Thanksgiving podcast concludes with our heartfelt expressions of gratitude for family, friends, co-workers... and our readers and listeners. Before…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump's Stolen-Election Gambit Is Over
With the news that Donald Trump is allowing the transition to begin, the post-election madness has pretty much come to an end. What will its long-term…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastTrump's Stolen-Election Gambit Is Over
With the news that Donald Trump is allowing the transition to begin, the post-election madness has pretty much come to an end. What will its long-term…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThere Is No Kraken
Our podcast crew wonders at the disintegration of the Trump case and the dissolution of the Trump legal team and asks whether it is comic or tragic and what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastEnough Already!
What, our podcast asks, does it mean when the best thing you can say about the Trump fraud allegations are that the president is crazy and not that he's up to…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBadfellas
Today's podcast features some out-and-out ranting against the egregious behavior of New York's Andrew Cuomo before we go on to rant about the egregious…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOne Test to Save Us All?
Today's podcast takes up a promising proposal for a home "contagiousness" test that everyone can take, as described by Harvard's Michael Mina in this article…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBiden’s Challenges in the Middle East and at Home
Recent revelations involving Iran’s nuclear program will leave Joe Biden with some hard choices to make about America’s foreign policy toward the region. But…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Democrats Have a Problem
2020 Election Superstar Steve Kornacki joins our podcast today to discuss the fascinating and unprecedented political situation now facing Joe Biden—with what…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThey Don’t Know How to Quit Him
What is driving the political world’s fixation with the president even as he has largely ceded the spotlight to his rival? Is it Trump’s still menacing but…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAndrew Cuomo Bans Your Family
So the COVID surge has Andrew Cuomo banning in-home gatherings of groups larger than 10. Can he do this? Can the surge cause new lockdowns that people will…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWe’re Supposed to Listen to Cuomo? Really?
So the COVID surge has Andrew Cuomo banning in-home gatherings of groups larger than 10. Can he do this? Can the surge cause new lockdowns that people will…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Outrage Addicts Keep Shooting Up
The podcast today examines how Joe Biden came out and calmly said he'd be president soon and didn't much care what Donald Trump was doing—and three seconds…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastLiberal Hypocrites
Today's podcast dives deep into the hypocrisy of those who are decrying the Trump effort to claim voter fraud when they spent four years saying Russians…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastBe a Man
The podcast considers how we can turn the page on the Trump presidency now that Biden is president-elect—and how conservative ideas of manliness should both…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe First Day of the Rest of Our Lives
The podcast crew talks about how things will function in a brave new world in which Joe Biden will be president—while at the same time the Republican Party…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastRepublicans Did Well. Trump Did Not.
The podcast today examines the polling results that show net gains for the GOP in the House and surprising holds in Senate races suggesting the Republicans…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSleep No More! Election Doth Murder Sleep!
Yes, we Commentary podcasters were up all night, like you, and so we spend some time trying to speak coherently about what happened, what is happening, and why…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFun Stories from the Republican Campaign Trail
On the Election Day podcast, when it's all over but the results, we stop the punditry and look back to elections past with our friend Daniel Casse, veteran…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastEerie Echoes from 2016
The COMMENTARY podcast does something a little different to celebrate Election Day eve. We went back into the archives to reexamine the last podcast ahead of…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGet Me to the Polls on Time
A few more hours...that's all the time we've got. (As Alfred Doolittle sings in "My Fair Lady.") So we discuss the final numbers—presidential job approval—that…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGreat Economic Numbers, But No Credit
Today's podcast begins with a huge economic number—33-plus percent growth. And yet we all agree the president is unlikely to get much credit and explain why…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow Dare You Cover the News!
Today's podcast deals with the astonishing media attitude toward the rioting in Philadelphia and the continuing refusal to cover the story being told about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow Liberals Gaslight: The Courts and the Media
Today's podcast reels in disbelief at the liberal disingenuousness in claiming the Right has violated norms in relation to Supreme Court nominations when the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat Does Trump Know That We Don’t?
Do the Trump campaign’s efforts to appeal to the COVID fatigued voter suggest they know something about the electorate that isn’t showing up in the polling? Or…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastFact-Checkers, Get to Work
The final debate of the 2020 presidential cycle featured a surprisingly competent Donald Trump and a listless Joe Biden. And that lopsided performance has led…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoes Hunter Biden Matter?
Do the revelations involving Hunter Biden’s emails that purport to implicate his father in efforts to profit off foreign interests matter? The COMMENTARY…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Magical Hypnotic Power of Donald J. Trump
The suffocating anxiety in liberal circles and the weird complacency in Trumpian circles derives from the same unconscious belief—the belief that Donald Trump…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastOpen up the Schools, for God's Sake!
Data from New York City shows without question that schools must be opened. Meanwhile, in Fairfax County, Va., the union is demanding schools remain closed…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHave Americans Always Been Crazy?
The podcast today takes up the subject of liberal panic that they are being lulled into a false sense of security by the polling suggesting a big Biden win…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastHow Trump Can Win, Maybe
Today's podcast takes up the rival Trump-Biden town halls and their overall effect and then tries to come up with a scenario under which the president wins an…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastShut Up, They Explained
Today’s podcast dives deep into the behavior of the mainstream media and tech companies in response to a New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter—about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastAmy, What You Wanna Do?
Today's podcast takes up the ludicrous and offensive efforts to brand Amy Coney Barrett a colonizer and a homophobe, even as polls show the American people…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Liberals Set Their Trump Trap
The podcast crew takes up the idea that American liberals have collectively hit upon their closing message for the election: The GOP is the party of the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Post-Truth Moment Comes for the Courts
As the Senate begins the process of hearing the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the capacity of partisan Democrats to internalize and…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastCan They Get Away with It?
In this episode, the COMMENTARY crew unloads on everyone. Can Joe Biden make it all the way to Election Day without saying whether he supports or opposes his…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe VP Debate and What We Used to Call ‘Politics’
The crew breaks down Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate and talks a little poetry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDoes Trump Have a Strategy?
Donald Trump’s decision to announce that he was walking away from the table amid negotiations with Democrats over another tranche of COVID relief sent…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Reality Show Meets Reality
The president’s diagnosis has shattered the unreality of this presidency and reminded Americans of the very real consequences that result from public policy…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe State of the Race After Trump’s Diagnosis
What has Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis done to the national political landscape? Will the public respond with sympathy or does the event merely reinforce the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastSo, What Happens Now?
How will Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis reshape the political landscape? No one knows. But we do have some speculative thoughts on how this could…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastGird Yourselves for a Biden Presidency
With the polls seeming to be moving away from the president, it’s time to prepare for the prospect of a Biden presidency and a Democratic Congress. What will…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat an Irredeemable Mess
The COMMENTARY crew breaks down the unholy spectacle to which we were all privy during Tuesday night’s first presidential debate. Strap in. Learn more about…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastDebate Night in America
The revelations about how little Donald Trump paid in income taxes may be a central issue in tonight’s debate, but that could overshadow other issues that are…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Amy Coney Barrett Show
The gang convenes on a Sunday morning for a very special episode of the COMMENTARY podcast, and it’s all about Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Perpetual Legitimacy Crisis
Donald Trump’s apparent decision to make people apprehensive about whether he will vacate his office should he lose the election has lent credence to some…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastThe Cosmic Unfairness of It All
Does Donald Trump have a plan when he does absurd things like refuse to entertain the prospect of a peaceful transition of power if he was to lose the…
The Commentary Magazine PodcastWhat the Biden Campaign Is Thinking
What is the Biden campaign’s pathway to victory? The campaign is sending plenty of signals about what demographics it needs to win, but Biden’s party and its…