Today’s podcast asks why the Biden administration declassified information regarding the Chinese surveillance flights via balloon and what they might suggest about the White House’s posture toward China—or whether we even have a posture toward China. Also, the Fetterman fears may have come home to roost. And what about Nikki Haley getting 11 percent in a three-way poll? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Today’s podcast notes Joe Biden’s pleasure at having drawn Republicans out into yelling at him during the State of the Union and how Bidenites are telegraphing that this is how they intend to win in 2024. Good strategy or not? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min
We analyze Joe Biden’s State of the Union, the Republican heckling, and the interesting response from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on today’s episode featuring Matthew Continetti, who will join the podcast as a permanent daily co-host in a few weeks. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Today’s podcast takes up the coming State of the Union speech and the fact that President Biden will have to make an accounting for himself on the bizarre week of balloon intelligence hijinks. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 12 min
The director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at AEI and National Affairs editor, Yuval Levin, joins the show today to talk about why experts didn’t see last Friday’s jobs numbers coming. Also, what the Chinese surveillance balloon says about American national security and the Biden administration’s handling of it. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Today’s podcast discusses a Chinese balloon, removing House members from committees, and Russia’s gambit in Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Hunter Biden’s legal team not only acknowledges that the “laptop from hell” was Hunter Biden’s but is now trying a newly “aggressive” strategy to go after the people who disseminated its contents—without ever stopping to acknowledge the two-plus years of lies about it. We take this up, as well as the assault on Ron DeSantis for his efforts to repair a flawed African American studies curriculum. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Tevi Troy joins the podcast today to talk about his article in COMMENTARY, “Ed Koch, Ten Years Gone.” And Tevi puts on his health-care hat as a former high-ranking official at the Department of Health and Human Services to help us understand the baffling Biden White House announcement that the COVID emergency will be over…in three months. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr
Mark Halperin of Wide World of News joins us today to discuss his must-read newsletter, the probabilities of both Trump and Biden being the 2024 nominees, what the change in White House chiefs of staff might portend, Kamala Harris’s trials, and whether Ron DeSantis is overvalued. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 12 min
The brutal beating death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police has reignited the debate around over-policing and race in America. But “reform” doesn’t seem to be the objective critics of police culture and those pushing a racial narrative in this killing want. Also, thoughts on the Palestinian violence against Israeli worshipers and the Israeli strike on Iranian military facilities. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr
The arrest-related shooting of a black suspect has captured the attention of racial activists, but the narrative is complicated by the race of the police involved, who are also black. Also, is Donald Trump’s resurgence in the polls cresting, or has it only just begun? Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 27, 2023•59 min
Today’s podcast brings up good economic numbers and asks whether we’re just now measuring everything badly—and how the political system is uniquely incompetent when it comes to resolving future economic crises before they happen. Also, some news about our show’s future. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Frederick Kagan joins the podcast to help us understand the breakthrough in NATO thinking that has led Germany and the United States to commit high-tech tanks to the war in Ukraine, how the war is going, and what America's understanding of the war should be as we approach the end of the first year of fighting. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Eli Lake joins us to talk about the indictment of the former head of the counterintelligence unit of the FBI in New York and what it might tell us about the FBI, the Justice Department, and the ongoing obsession with the 2016 elections. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 9 min
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Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Joe Biden says he has “no regrets” about his handling of classified information. Really? Why not? Seems like a big deal to us on the podcast. Also a big deal: Ukraine. And the Supreme Court’s inability to find the leaker of its most important decision in decades. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 20, 2023•58 min
Today’s podcast takes up the successful war by New York leftists against their own Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, and her choice for chief judge of the state’s court of appeals. Why are they attacking her? And why is the left ganging up on a hockey player who didn’t want to wear a warmup jacket of their choosing? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Editor, author, and columnist at the Jewish News Service and the Jerusalem Post, Ruthie Blum, joins the podcast today to explain why so many American Jews, in particular, are in a panic over the alleged threat to democracy in Israel posed by the country’s new government. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Today’s podcast asks whether it’s just a January funk or are we in an extended period of American social depression—from quiet quitting to mass shoplifting. Also, China’s in a funk too! Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Today’s podcast takes up Noah Rothman’s lead February article, “The Worldwide COVID Revolts,” and what it says about the political fallout from the restrictions on human activity over the past three years. And we begin with the pickle the Biden people find themselves in if the special counsel pursues criminal charges against Donald Trump relating to classified documents. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 16, 2023•57 min
Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss the Biden-documents revelations that caused Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the matter. And we pay tribute to the late Paul Johnson. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 7 min
The allegation that Joe Biden also mishandled classified documents expands to include a second tranche discovered at an undisclosed location, which raises questions about the legal exposure of the president and his team. Or does it? And if it doesn’t, what does that suggest about the Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s alleged misconduct? Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 12, 2023•35 min
Today’s podcast considers a startling quote from Fed chairman Jay Powell, the nature of liberal vs. conservative beliefs about government power and regulation, and why classified documents in Joe Biden’s post-veep office were in a manila envelope marked “personal.” Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr
Today’s podcast takes up the bizarre accusations against the GOP that it is somehow acting in an illegitimate way by fulfilling a campaign promise to stand against the growth in the size and aggressiveness of the IRS. And what’s this—Joe Biden took classified documents out of the Obama White House? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 9 min
The podcast today asks what exactly the future holds for Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans in the wake of McCarthy’s 15th-ballot election as House Speaker. Nothing good, it seems. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 09, 2023•55 min
Today’s podcast considers the argument made by the House rebels that they are merely practicing “democracy” as it was meant to be practiced—when, in fact, they are a tiny minority using the powers of obstruction, not majority opinion, to try and get their way. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 06, 2023•59 min
Today's podcast considers the argument made by the House rebels that they are merely practicing "democracy" as it was meant to be practiced—when, in fact, they are a tiny minority using the powers of obstruction, not majority opinion, to try and get their way. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 06, 2023•59 min
We’re joined today by the journalist Nancy Rommelmann, whose shocking article, “ A Murder in Portland,” exposes the nature of the existential threat posed to ordinary people by progressives committed to freeing criminals. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Matt Continetti joins the podcast to talk about Kevin McCarthy’s horrible day and what that day portends for the Republican party over the next days, weeks, and years. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 15 min
As the new year begins, the podcast looks with wonder and horror at the really insane start of the new Congress, in the hands of a tiny Republican majority—and controlled, it seems, by a tiny minority within the majority that wants to see the world burn. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 1 min
