oday's podcast takes up the fact that the kosher dining hall at Cornell University was closed yesterday out of an "abundance of caution" because of some online threats. We discuss the danger represented by this attitude and how people need to move out of the pre-October 6 idea of how to handle things into the post October 7 fact of how Jews are to protect themselves, be protected, and fight back against those who would do us ill. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Today's podcast is about how the idea that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are two different things has been completely demolished by the targeting of Jews worldwide in the wake of a massacre...of Jews. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Eli Lake joins us today to continue our conversation about the nature of the rhetorical and protest attacks on Israel and how they are meant to befuddle, confound, and depress Israel's followers. The only real solution: Israel needs to win in Gaza. Plus: A new speaker! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 26, 2023•53 min
Today's podcast discusses the psy-op the Left and the anti-Zionists and others are working on everyone who wants the world to stay focused on the threat to Israel and the Jewish people—and offers some tips on how to help combat the psy-op and give it back to them. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Today we talk about the Biden administration's sudden alarm about Israel's war on Hamas. Where is this coming from? Is this what the president meant by standing with Israel? We also touch on Trump's rise in some new polls and try to make sense of what's happening among Republicans in the House. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min
We have with us Michal Cotler-Wunsh, who is Israel's envoy for combatting global anti-Semitism. If there is one COMMENTARY podcast we've ever done that you should listen to from beginning to end, this is the one. So don't just, as we say, Give it a listen. Listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2023•58 min
COMMENTARY senior editor Seth Mandel makes his debut on the podcast to discuss Joe Biden's strange and unfortunate address from the Oval Office last night. What should the president have said about assisting Ukraine and Israel? What did he say instead? And why was the whole thing so all over the place. Plus mailbag. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Today's podcast looks askance at, and is horrified by, and laughs at, the protest at the Capitol yesterday by "Jewish organizations" working as propagandists for Jew-killing organizations. And then we take apart, word by word, the New York Times's effort to exculpate itself for responsibility for the violence in the wake of its false reporting of the hospital rocket strike. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 19, 2023•53 min
Jonathan Schanzer, author of this month's lead article , joins us to discuss Biden's visit to Israel and the seeming delay in Israel's moves to begin the war it must fight in Gaza. What's happening and why? And we spend some time commending the people who are putting their money and their words where their ideas are and hitting colleges and universities in their pocketbooks. Also, nepotism be damned, I recommend my father Norman Podhoretz's legendary article, " J'Accuse ." Give a listen. Learn m...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 8 min
We are joined today by the American-Israeli tech entrepreneur Michael Granoff, who is organizing an unprecedented effort to provide Israel with a supply chain from the United States. It's called Operation Falcon, and you can find out more at tinyurl.com/operationfalcon . We talk about the mood in Israel, the mood in America, and why Israel will not be easily buffeted by the inconstancy of American and American-Jewish public opinion. And we make some announcements about changes at the magazine an...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Today's podcast raises the question: Are we dwelling too much on the trauma being suffered in the wake of the Hamas slaughters and on the humanitarian-crisis nature of war in general rather than stiffening our resolve and readying ourselves for a long and necessary conflict? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Noam Blum of Tablet joins us to discuss Tablet's effort to collect the testimonies relating to the massacre of Jews on October 7. Can we bear to listen? Can we bear not to? (Warning: We use some explicit language on this one.) Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Sen. Tom Cotton joins the podcast today to discuss Israel's path going forward, the potential inconstancy of the Biden administration in supporting Israel's prosecution of the war, the president's fecklessness toward Iran, and other cheerful items. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Today's podcast commends Joe Biden's speech about Israel and Hamas, worries over the durability of his commitment, and cites the astonishing level of pro-Hamas support from places like...MSNBC, owned by Comcast, a multibillion-dollar cable company that seems to be OK with a network it owns providing propagandistic emotional support for Jew-killers. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 11, 2023•57 min
Eli Lake joins the podcast to talk about the fecklessness of the Biden administration and how that may have given Iran a sense it could act with impunity—and whether, once again, America will go wobbly when it comes to Israel defending itself. Only this time, will Bibi Netanyahu's country allow its leaders to go wobbly in response? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Dan Senor joins today's podcast to mourn with us at the horrors in Israel, to reflect on the burdens and the courage of Israeli people, and worry about the world's inconstancy in the face of a long and possibly brutal war Israel must win. You will note there is no intro music and no outro music, and no ads. This is a grim day. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Today's podcast dives deeply into the change in Joe Biden's attitude toward the border wall, noting a promise he made in August 2020 that his administration would not add "a foot of wall" to Trump's barrier. Well, here we are, and many feet of wall are about to be added. What gives? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Today's podcast scratches its head at the news that Joe Biden is...building a border wall? And throwing $9 billion in debt-relief aid at student loans even though the Supreme Court said his last plan was unconstitutional? Meanwhile, in New York, Trump's argument that the fraud case against him is "election interference" is getting pretty good support from...the judge in the case? And the state attorney general? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr
Josh Kraushaar of Jewish Insider joins the podcast today to survey the wreckage of the House Republicans in the wake of the defenestration of the Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, and the triumph of his adversary, Matt Gaetz. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Today's podcast looks at three shocking crimes committed in American cities in the past two days and wonders if this might be the turning point for the liberal dominance on these matters in urban areas. And Trump's on trial—how bad will this be for him or will it be bad at all? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 03, 2023•57 min
Chris Stirewalt joins today's podcast to talk about the House shenanigans over the past week, from Republicans at war with each other to radical Democrats pulling fire alarms. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Rob Long joins the podcast to talk about the career of the late Dianne Feinstein, the end of the WGA strike, and the stunning success of Sound of Freedom. Plus Mailbag! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 29, 2023•51 min
What on earth did we see last night at the Reagan Library? Did it change the race at all? Who, if anyone, benefitted from the shambolic but dull second Republican debate? And is there any utility to the format at this point in our politics? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Dan Senor joins the podcast to talk about the upcoming Republican debate and what the strategies of the various debaters should be, what they should talk about, and how to maximize their own gains. Also, the Iran echo chamber turns out to have been created by...Iran? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Today's podcast examines Joe Biden's trip to Michigan to stand in solidarity with the United Auto Workers strikers and how it might affect his standing with Americans on the economy. And polls, polls, polls! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Today's podcast takes up two important articles in the new issue of Commentary—Christine Rosen's "Criminals and Their Apologists" and Matthew Continetti's "The Left of the Right." Plus: Listener mail! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 22, 2023•53 min
Today's podcast assesses Merrick Garland's appearance on Capitol Hill, the continuing Democratic conviction that someone somewhere needs to shut Donald Trump up, and what's going on between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Today's podcast takes up three speeches at the UN this week: there's the one by President Biden, there's the one by Iranian thug Ebrahim Raisi, and the one by Wolodymr Zelensky of Ukraine. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 20, 2023•54 min
Today's podcast points out that while all the talk of a government shutdown centers on Republican infighting in the House of Representatives, the idea that the government must shut down if Republicans are not unanimous is based in the idea that no Democrat will vote to keep the government open. If that's true, won't they get some of the blame? And with the debt topping $33 trillion, can spending remain a secondary issue in our politics? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Sep 19, 2023•54 min
Today's podcast finds commonalities in a congresswoman's disruptive conduct at a Denver theater, a would-be Virginia politician's selling sex acts on a website, and a new Senate code of conduct ending dress requirements for members of the world's oldest deliberative body. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr
