Today’s podcast pays tribute to Colin Powell’s extraordinary American story and asks why his memoir isn’t taught in schools while memoirs about racial bitterness are. We also wonder at the larger meaning of the DC comic book company’s decision to remove the words “American way” from the Superman slogan and what it means about the possibilities of a conservative counterculture. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 9 min
The last podcast of the week finds us in a ruminative mood as we discuss Dave Chappelle’s controversial special and the finger-wagging response to it—and wonder at the finger-wagging being done in response to the journey of William Shatner into space. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 15, 2021•50 min
Today’s podcast takes up Donald Trump’s statement that Republican voters will not turn out to vote unless the 2020 vote is somehow resolved in his favor. What does this portend? Will the results in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections suggest a different future? And what about all this “national divorce” stuff? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr
A discussion about the lingering and unknowable negative health effects of mid-pandemic mitigation measures that may not even be fully visible to us for years. Also, the center-left’s new obsession with the political strategist David Shor and his prescription for Democratic success: “popularism.”... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min
The podcast crew takes up the new effort in Texas to prevent private businesses from requiring employees to vaccinate, and what it says about the politics of the jab nationwide. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 12, 2021•56 min
Liberals are beginning to panic about the decline of Joe Biden’s popularity and what it might mean, and we’re there to help explain it to them! Also, what’s going on with the supply chain, and is Trump playing a role in Biden’s troubles? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Today’s podcast takes up the question of whether McConnell blinked, why Schumer attacked a deal that gave him a face-saving way out, why Manchin put his head in his hands while Schumer did that, why Donald Trump is doing what he’s doing, and why the Chinese are doing what they’re doing in Taiwan. Oh, and some COVID stuff. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Today’s podcast looks at a Quinnipiac poll that has very bad news for Joe Biden in it and wonders at the choices he’s made that have led him to this pass. How are we to understand him? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Today’s podcast takes up the charges of the Facebook whistleblower and asks whether her perspective is the right one or whether she misunderstands the nature of Facebook’s challenge to American society. And what exactly are Democrats up to when it comes to raising the debt ceiling? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min
The podcasters today consider crime up close and personal—yesterday I was in proximity to four different acts of violence and another was nearly burglarized. Is there a larger meaning to these actions? Do they connect somehow to the president’s seeming acceptance of the harassment of Kyrsten Sinema? And how are we to understand them in light of the Justice Department’s decision to focus on... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 05, 2021•58 min
The podcast crew expresses puzzlement at the Democratic party spin that the failure of both big spending bills this weekend needs to be viewed as some kind of ideological and partisan triumph. Why? How? What on earth is going on here? And why is Anthony Fauci threatening Christmas? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Today’s podcast notes that liberal opinion seems determined to cast the left’s refusal to spend $1 trillion because it wants to spend $4.5 trillion as some kind of victory—and asks whether that makes any sense. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Today’s podcast explains why Joe Manchin will never, ever, ever, ever do anything near what the progressives in his party want—because it would be the end of him and he wants to remain his state’s dominant politician. We also discuss the finger-pointing among Bidenites about the Afghanistan disaster, whether it’s OK to desire the political failure of your adversaries, and why we’re no longer... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 17 min
The revelations yesterday that emerged from Congressional testimony featuring two top officials involved in the Afghanistan debacle reveal Joe Biden to be as mendacious as Donald Trump when it comes to matters of policy. Is this something new for the presidency or is this just more evidence that all politicians lie? And does that kind of lying have a corrosive effect on America’s social fabric? Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Between rising crime rates and contradictory reporting on how the Afghanistan pullout failed so spectacularly, the COMMENTARY podcast could use what Donald Trump reportedly relied upon to calm him down: a “music man” who would soothe him with the score of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, “Cats.”... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 28, 2021•56 min
Today’s podcast asks the question: What do America’s most famous leftist member of Congress and Anthony Trollope’s fictional 19th-century political character Phineas Finn have in common? Also: What’s more popular among Democrats, spending a mere trillion dollars or spending many trillions of dollars? And: Why didn’t the Tony Awards bestow their largesse on a Black Lives Matter play? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 27, 2021•59 min
Today’s podcast takes up Robert Kagan’s much-discussed Washington Post piece claiming a Trump constitutional crisis is already upon us. Is it, though? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 24, 2021•58 min
Today’s podcast asks whether the signs of Democratic crackup are so pronounced that those who oppose Biden and Company should just sit back and watch in amusement as their opposite numbers dissolve into acrimony and paralysis. Or is this bad for the country? And now that 75 percent of all Americans over 12 are at least partially vaccinated, why can’t we celebrate this achievement? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 23, 2021•52 min
Today’s podcast points out the continuing scandal of the media’s and Big Tech’s efforts to suppress stories they don’t like—both about Hunter Biden and about China’s role in the promulgation of COVID—and what the practical consequences for them both may be. And then we get into the Democratic party’s courtship of political meltdown, shown in part by an effort to defund Israel’s anti-missile... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Today’s podcast asks why the Biden people immediately assumed horseback Border patrol officers trying to deal with the overwhelming problems in Texas were doing wrong, and what it says about the administration’s desperate efforts to hold on to its progressive base. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Today’s podcast takes up Biden’s horrid Friday afternoon, with three bad pieces of news in an hour—and the coming crisis within the Democratic party over its ambitions to pass more than $5 trillion in spending in a month. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Today's podcast looks at the increasing Republican-conservative tendency to support the actions of the mob on January 6, the consequences therefrom—and asks whether Peggy Noonan's provocative column today in the Wall Street Journal is right that America has somehow "lost the thread." Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2021•1 hr 19 min
California Gov. Gavin Newsom easily survives the effort to recall him from office. Are there lessons for Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterms here? Also, the revelations in a forthcoming book that Gen. Mark Milley conducted his own foreign policy and violated the chain of command under Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 15, 2021•58 min
Today's podcast takes up the dishonesties of Secretary of State Blinken, the self-discrediting idea of "over the horizon" intelligence, fake polls supporting a president whose poll numbers have gotten very bad, and a horrible and instructive event at Barnard College involving observant Jews being told to violate the tenets of their faith to fill out a COVID form. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min
In the wake of a somber 9/11 anniversary, the COMMENTARY podcast surveys the depressing intellectual and political landscape that typifies American discourse. Is the reaction against classical Western liberalism reversible? The “crushing morosity” is thick in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Today's podcast takes up Joe Biden's COVID speech and plans and asks how we are to understand a president who says you have nothing to fear if you're vaccinated but he's going to protect you from the unvaccinated. And we discuss the enduring impact of 9/11. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min
We're back after the Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah break to discuss the Biden administration's negotiations with terrorists and the praise it's getting for doing so; the fact that Biden is now trying to put us on a war footing against COVID; and the Biden team's effort to change the plotline of the last month by firing Trump officials. And what is going on with Trump and boxing? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr
Today's podcast deals with the onslaught of lousy headlines and developments surrounding the president, from horrible jobs numbers to Delta fatalities to polls showing a significant decline in his support. Why is this happening? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Today's podcast takes up the Supreme Court's refusal to stay Texas's new restrictive abortion law and asks whether its existence heralds the beginning of a grassroots liberal movement on par with the grassroots conservative movement that arose when the Court made abortion a constitutional right nearly half a century ago. And, yes, more on Afghanistan. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Today's podcast takes a long, hard, close, serious, and polemical look at Joe Biden's self-justifying address to the American people on the Afghan catastrophe. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 01, 2021•57 min
