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 floated here at home. Then we go into the “indefinite suspension” of Chris Cuomo at CNN and what it means for the future of the network, whose new boss has already indicated he wants to take it in a different direction. And will the new West Side... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 10 min
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 little evidence we have about how dangerous this thing really is. Then we come to Chris Cuomo: Why does he still have a job exactly? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr
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 and the continuing effort by the media to whitewash its role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. And a final word on Stephen Sondheim. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 7 min
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 to commit horrible crimes and elite opinion-wielders trashing the United States when this country provided them with bounties untold. Happy Turkey Day and give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 12 min
The Biden administration is making the strategic petroleum reserve available to the markets seemingly only in response to his sagging polls, which observers believe is a response to rising consumer costs. But this is not an energy policy. Also, thoughts on the public response to the verdict in the Rittenhouse trial. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr
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 Waukesha. Also, Christine explains how she is the podcast’s successor to the Karate Kid. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 5 min
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 Democrats and at worst their Armageddon before we go on to discuss his book, There’s No Free Lunch, about economics and human flourishing. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 18 min
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 Swalwell “sleeping with the enemy?” Did Ilhan Omar go too far with her semi-literate attack on Boebert? Or have we just elected ourselves a nightmarish reality show with no redeeming value? Also, an update on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 18, 2021•38 min
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 were told we would reach herd immunity and see the end of the pandemic. But clearly, the powers that be won’t say so—even though everything we see says Joe Biden desperately needs to claim a victory, any victory. Why won’t he? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 16 min
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 enforced when other media professionals don’t do what the self-appointed critics and finger-waggers want them to do. Then we talk about how the same is going on, in an even more pernicious form, in academia. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 10 min
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 work? Come on, man. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 4 min
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 pleases his own base, he alienates the non-aligned voters he desperately needs as well—and vice versa. And what happened to the 2020 revolutionary moment? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 16 min
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 a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 11, 2021•54 min
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 hostilities earlier this year—and a guide to the state of play in the Middle East more broadly. We also talk about the sudden insistence of the mainstream media on especially evil Republicans just a week after Democrats got dunned in the elections—how... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 8 min
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 collusion with Russia—a charge we now know to have been entirely without foundation, notwithstanding the lives this false charge affected and nearly destroyed. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min
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 about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min
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 Republicans every weapon they need to destroy Democratic hopes in 2022. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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 doing with the two bills in Congress in its wake. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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 politically today from the one we were living in yesterday. We have many explanations for why. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 16 min
More evidence of Democratic disarray in Washington yesterday, and the confusing apparent decline of Democratic hopes in the Virginia governor’s race, bring to mind Casey Stengel’s plaint about managing the 1962 Mets: “Can’t anyone here play this game?” Meanwhile, Afghanistan falls into hellfire. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 7 min
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 act of terrorism to the Washington Post’s gargantuan January 6 investigation and on. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 9 min
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 Capitol Hill. The lap is cautious because we still can’t quite believe they’re as bad at this as they look. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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 there was no deal, and there will be no votes. Is there anything that explains this behavior but abject incompetence? American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss this and more. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 14 min
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 ago. Is that really possible? Also, the Chinese hypersonic missile threat and American complacency. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 7 min
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 generate sufficient revenue? what will the consequences be for ordinary people?—which is maybe the worst (or best!) thing you could do to such a concept. Then, it’s education and why Democrats and liberals seem unable to understand why it may be... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 11 min
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 Thought,” has only gained momentum over the past week as more has emerged to suggest leading figures in the public-health community might have been involved in a major cover-up at the beginning of the pandemic. The second... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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 threat posed by wokeness, and how dissenters against this authoritarian dogma can reverse course. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Can laughter survive the scrutiny of self-serious social justice activists? Director, producer, and screenwriter of such hits as “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” series, David Zucker joins the show to discuss his article in the new issue of COMMENTARY, “Destroying Comedy,” and the woke threat to humor. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 21, 2021•56 min
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, M.D.” We discuss the ideological threat to the dispassionate conduct of medical science and how ideology is guiding public health practitioners’ approach to the pandemic. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 4 min
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 supposedly speaking on behalf of the needs of African-Americans and those of color, we delve into the brilliant observations of George Orwell 85 years ago in his book, The Road to Wigan Pier. Then we talk about the Virginia governor’s race. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 6 min
