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 Republicans in places like Oregon are setting up the GOP for disaster because of their embrace of conspiracy theory and lies. And what does this mean for the politicians who like to straddle fences? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 8 min
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 about what they know and what they don't—and the fact that tradeoffs are difficult and painful and horrible. Also, the Biden administration gets tested abroad and the GOP continues to eat its own. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min
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 since the election of 2016. How will they get over their addiction to Trump hatred? And how will we be able to deal with the fact that our leaders in Washington now insist everyone wear masks but take theirs off at the least opportunity? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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 falsehood but politically very much in keeping with the way incoming administrations try to lower expectations. The question is: Will Biden go woke when his entire candidacy was a feint toward the non-woke? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 5 min
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 Building riots, and what it will be like to host a daytime talk show without President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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 only news game in town and nobody cares what Biden will say or do. Also some football talk! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Bret Stephens, newly minted COMMENTARY contributing editor, joins the podcast today to discuss his blockbuster article, "Memo to President Biden: Please Don't Mess Up the Abraham Accords." Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 18, 2021•59 min
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 speech? Why are liberals so intent on cracking down on speech anyway? And what about the GOP and Trump’s continued popularity? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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 our crew does think is vitally necessary? And how badly will the Republican Party fracture over this? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Congress once again compelled to take up an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and the old political calculations are making a comeback. Republicans have a gun to their heads—if reports are to be believed, in a very literal sense, and are increasingly less inclined to support such a motion. But Democrats don’t seem inclined to make betraying Trump an enticing prospect. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 12, 2021•54 min
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 Republican Party’s challenge, the prospects for impeachment and removal, and the very nature of reality itself. Get a cup of coffee and give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 53 min
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 unthinkable. But what should they be? From impeaching the president, to shaming the lawmakers who allowed this to happen, to the fight for the soul of the GOP; the podcast discusses and debates next steps. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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 disgusting events in American political history. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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 Senate, and the White House—and have now, four years later, lost them all. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 06, 2021•58 min
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 50 This Year.” How did 1971 change everything? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 8 min
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 about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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 relief bill when the deal is already done and by pardoning three convicted former Republican officeholders. Also, Christine’s adventures in music, John and Abe’s take on film, and Noah’s abject dullness. Give a listen, and we’ll see you all... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Increasingly, the progressive left has abandoned the cause of decriminalization in favor of decarceration, expanding the terms of the debate around criminal justice reform to include the virtual abolition of criminal justice as we know it. What was the genesis of this idea, and what could its political consequences be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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 direction of November’s election results, and Joe Biden’s diminished presence on the public stage. It’s all here in the latest episode of the COMMENTARY podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 21, 2020•55 min
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 life, a surprising reversal of fortune for AOC, and the incoming Senator whose name makes him sound like a character on "Captain Kangaroo." Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 18, 2020•59 min
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 it is that Democrats have become the enemies of fun. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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 officials telling everybody we'll all have to keep living this way even after we get the vaccine? Are they crazy? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 16, 2020•53 min
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 won't become the sun around which all the political planets revolve. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 15, 2020•59 min
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 systemic media bias—which also has shown its true colors in the attack on one of COMMENTARY's most valued contributors, Joseph Epstein. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min
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 (answer: Democrats sought to intimidate Trump electors in 2016) and how the transformative Abraham Accords might be derailed by a Biden administration just as Bibi Netanyahu finds himself in existential trouble as his trial is getting ready... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 3 min
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 by Elon Musk's SpaceX that was both a triumph and a disaster. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 10, 2020•32 min
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 kind of perilous legal circumstances Trump’s critics feared. Also, Abe Greenwald posits a unified theory of protest movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 09, 2020•50 min
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 to talk about JFK, Chinese spies, and Biden cabinet picks. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 08, 2020•59 min
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 "stolen" from Donald Trump, and why the story about American diplomats being attacked by foreign intelligence agencies using microwaves isn't a bigger deal. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min
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. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min
