This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com C laire Lehmann is a journalist and publisher. In 2015, after leaving academia, she founded the online magazine Quillette, where she is still editor-in-chief. She’s also a newspaper columnist for The Australian. For two clips of our convo — on how journalists shouldn’t be too friendly with one another, and how postmodernism takes the joy out of literature — pop over to our YouTube page . Other topics: a mod...
May 09, 2025•51 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Byron is a political journalist. He was a news producer for CNN in the early years, a reporter for The American Spectator, and the White House correspondent for National Review. He’s currently the chief political correspondent for Washington Examiner and a contributor to Fox News. His most recent book is the 2020 bestseller, Obsession : Inside the Washington Establishment’s Never-Ending War on Trump . We ch...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Frances Lee is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton, and her books include The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Age . Steve Macedo —an old friend from Harvard — is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, and his books include Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage . The boo...
Apr 25, 2025•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Francis is a physician and geneticist whose work has led to the discovery of the cause of cystic fibrosis, among other diseases. In 1993 he was appointed director of the Human Genome Project, which successfully sequenced all three billion letters of our DNA. He went on to serve three presidents as the director of the National Institutes of Health. The author of many books, including The Language of God , hi...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Evan is an attorney and gay rights pioneer. He founded and led Freedom to Marry — the campaign to win marriage until victory at the Supreme Court in 2015, after which he then wound down the organization. During those days he wrote the book Why Marriage Matters : America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry. Today he “advises and assists diverse organizations, movements, and countries in adapting the l...
Apr 11, 2025•57 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Douglas is a writer and commentator. He’s an associate editor at The Spectator and a columnist for both the New York Post and The Sun, as well as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His books include The Madness of Crowds and The War on the West , which we discussed on the Dishcast three years ago . His new book is On Democracies and Death Cults : Israel and the Future of Civilization . We had a liv...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nick is an entrepreneur and journalist. He was the founder of Gawker Media, the publisher of Gizmodo, and the editor of Valleywag. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times — as a derivatives and tech correspondent — and later founded a Silicon Valley news aggregator called Moreover Technologies. He’s now working on Maze.com, which hosts a network map of near-future timelines. For two cli...
Mar 28, 2025•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mike White is a writer, director, and actor. Among his many films, he wrote and starred in Chuck & Buck and wrote the screenplay for School of Rock . In television, he co-created and starred in Enlightened , and he’s the brilliant auteur of The White Lotus, currently in its third season. In reality TV, he competed on Survivor: David vs. Goliath and two seasons of The Amazing Race , alongside his gay evangel...
Mar 21, 2025•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael Lewis is the best nonfiction writer in America — and an old friend. He’s the bestselling author of Liar’s Poker , Moneyball , The Blind Side , and Flash Boys . He was on the Dishcast four years ago to discuss The Premonition: A Pandemic Story , and his new book is Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service — a collection of essays by Michael and others about the federal workers now under ...
Mar 14, 2025•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ian is a historian, a journalist, and an old friend. He’s currently the Paul Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He served as the editor of The New York Review of Books and as foreign editor of The Spectator, where he still writes. He has written many books, including Theater of Cruelty , The Churchill Complex, and The Collaborators — which we discussed on the Dishcast in 2023...
Mar 07, 2025•51 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Chris — an old friend and, in my view, one of the sharpest right-of-center writers in journalism — returns to the Dishcast for his third appearance. He’s a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a contributing editor to the Claremont Review of Books, a contributing writer for the NYT, and a member of the editorial committee of the French quarterly Commentaire. We covered his book The Age of Entitlement o...
Feb 28, 2025•56 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Yoni is a journalist and academic. He used to be a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard, and also taught at Babson College and Brandeis. He subsequently served in many editorial and writing roles at The Atlantic, where he’s currently a deputy executive editor. He just published his first book, Stuck : How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity . It’s an engrossin...
Feb 21, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jon and I go way back to the early days of the marriage movement. He’s currently a senior fellow at Brookings and a contributor editor at The Atlantic. He’s the author of many books, including Kindly Inquisitors , The Happiness Curve, and The Constitution of Knowledge — which we discussed on the Dishcast in 2021. His new book is Cross Purposes : Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy . For two clips o...
Feb 14, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ross is a writer and a dear old colleague, back when we were both bloggers at The Atlantic. Since then he’s been a columnist at the New York Times — and, in my mind, he’s the best columnist in the country. The author of many books, including Grand New Party and The Decadent Society , his new one is Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious (which you can pre-order now ). So in this podcast, I play — literal...
Feb 07, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sebastian is an author, journalist, and war correspondent. He’s been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, and his debut documentary, Restrepo , was nominated for an Oscar. He’s the author of many bestsellers, including The Perfect Storm , War , Tribe , and Freedom . His latest: In My Time of Dying : How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife . It’s a fasci...
Jan 31, 2025•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John Gray is a political philosopher. He retired from academia in 2007 as Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, and is now a regular contributor and lead reviewer at the New Statesman. He’s the author of two dozen books, and his latest is The New Leviathans : Thoughts After Liberalism . I’d say he’s one of the most brilliant minds of our time — and my first podcast with him was a ...
Jan 24, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Andrew Neil has long been one of the finest journalists in the UK. He has been chairman of The Spectator, chairman of Sky TV, editor of The Sunday Times, and a BBC anchor, where his grueling interviews of politicians became legendary. He’s currently a columnist for both the UK and US versions of The Daily Mail and an anchor for Times Radio. In the US he went viral after a car-crash interview with Ben Shapir...
Jan 17, 2025•58 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Adam is a literary critic and poet. He’s been a senior editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor for Tablet and Harvard Magazine , and he’s currently an editor in the Wall Street Journal’s Review section. The author of many books, his latest is On Settler Colonialism : Violence, Ideology and Justice . I’ve been fascinated by the concept — another product of critical theory, as it is now routinely...
Jan 10, 2025•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mary is a political consultant and former TV and radio host. She served under Presidents Reagan, HW Bush, and W Bush. She also co-founded Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster. She’s married to Democratic consultant and Dishcast guest, James Carville, whom she wrote two books with: All’s Fair and Love & War . She also wrote Letters to My Daughters . We got to know each ot...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com We’ve been trying to cover the trans debate from as many sides as possible . So Brianna Wu was an obvious invite to the Dishcast. She is a video game developer and political activist who has run for Congress twice in Massachusetts. She is also a public speaker on issues affecting women in tech and became a central figure in Gamergate. She co-hosts with three other trans women — Kelly Cadigan, TafTaj, and Sc...
Dec 27, 2024•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com What the hell just happened in Syria? We asked one of the sharpest scholars on the subject to give us a primer. Aaron Zelin is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he also directs the “Islamic State Worldwide Activity Map” project. He’s also a visiting research scholar in the politics department at Brandeis and the founder of the website Jihadology. His first book is titled Your ...
Dec 20, 2024•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Christine is a columnist for Commentary and a co-host of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She’s also a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. The author of many books, her new one is The Extinction of Experience : Being Human in a Disembodied World . For two clips of our convo — on algorithms killing serendipity, and smartphones ki...
Dec 13, 2024•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a historian, a journalist, and an old friend. He was managing editor and acting editor of The New Republic, a history columnist in the early days of Slate, and a contributing editor to Politico Magazine. He’s currently a professor of History and of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers. The author of many books, including Republic of Spin and Nixon’s Shadow , his new one is John Lewis: A Life . For...
Dec 06, 2024•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Reihan is a writer and the president of the Manhattan Institute. Before that he was the executive editor of National Review and worked at publications as varied as the NYT, The Atlantic, National Affairs, Slate, CNN, NBC News, and Vice. He’s the author of Melting Pot or Civil War? and Grand New Party — a 2008 book he co-wrote with Ross Douthat that pushed a policy program for a GOP connected to the working ...
Nov 22, 2024•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Anderson doesn’t need an introduction, but he’s a broadcast journalist who has anchored Anderson Cooper 360° for more than two decades. He’s also a correspondent for 60 Minutes and the host of a podcast centered on grief, “ All There Is .” He invited me on the pod after the death of my mother this summer, and this Dishcast episode is the extended version of our conversation, which covers my experience of th...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 6 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Damon is a political writer with a must-read substack, Notes from the Middleground . He’s been the editor of First Things and a senior correspondent at The Week, and he’s the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test . Back when we were both at Newsweek / Daily Beast, he edited my essays, so we’ve been friends for a while. We also both belong to the camp of conflicted moderates — and look like doppelgän...
Nov 08, 2024•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Musa is a sociologist and writer. He’s an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His first book is We Have Never Been Woke : The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite . He also has a great substack, Symbolic Capital(ism) . For two clips of our convo (recorded on October 9) — how “elite overproduction” fuels wokeness, and the myth of Trump’s support from...
Nov 01, 2024•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sam is a neuroscientist, philosopher, bestselling author, host of the Making Sense podcast , and creator of the Waking Up App. He’s also an old friend, jousting partner, meditation role model, and all round wonderful man. His recent work helped me reassess my views on the Gaza war. This week we had our third consecutive talk on the eve of the presidential election — the first on his pod in 2016 , the second...
Oct 25, 2024•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com The inimitable Tina Brown revived Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, before turning to the web and The Daily Beast (where I worked for her). She’s written three books, the latest of which we covered on the Dishcast a few years ago , The Palace Papers . This week she launched a substack, Fresh Hell: Tina Brown’s Diaries — “observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges.” And yes, this chat re...
Oct 18, 2024•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Walter is a novelist, literary critic, and journalist. He’s written eight books, most famously Up in the Air , which became a film starring George Clooney. He’s now the editor-at-large for County Highway and co-hosts a weekly podcast with Matt Taibbi, “America This Week.” Way back in the day, I edited his work for The New Republic, and he guest-blogged for the Dish. For two clips of our convo — on Tim Walz ...
Oct 11, 2024•43 min
