This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Kevin spent 15 years as a writer and reporter for National Review, worked as a theater critic at The New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He’s currently the national correspondent at The Dispatch and a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He’s the author of many books, including Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly ...
Jan 23, 2026•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Charlie is a journalist and podcaster. From 1993 to 2016, he hosted a conservative talk show on WTMJ in Milwaukee. He was also the editor of Right Wisconsin, the editor-in-chief of The Bulwark, and a commentator on MSNBC. He recently went fully independent with his own substack, “To the Contrary” — subscribe! The author of many books, the latest was 2017’s How the Right Lost Its Mind . An auto-transcript is...
Jan 16, 2026•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Claire is an American novelist, essayist, and journalist living in Paris. She’s the editor-in-chief of The Cosmopolitan Globalist — subscribe! — and the author of many books, including There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters , and the novel Loose Lips . An auto-transcript is available above (just click “Transcript” while logged into Substack). For two clips of our convo — on the US returning ...
Jan 09, 2026•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Laura Field is a writer and political theorist who specializes in far-right populist intellectualism in the US. She’s currently a Scholar in Residence at American University, a Senior Advisor for the Illiberalism Studies Program at GW, and a nonresident fellow with Brookings. Her new book is Furious Minds : The Making of the MAGA New Right . We bonded over some of the right’s wackier innovations, and differ...
Jan 02, 2026•51 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Arthur is an academic and writer. The former president of the American Enterprise Institute, he’s a professor at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. The author of 13 books — including the 2023 bestseller he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey: Build the Life You Want — his latest is The Happiness Files , a curated collection from his “How to Build...
Dec 26, 2025•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Simon is a clinical psychologist who writes about the connections between “Narcissism, Trauma, Fame, and Power” — the name of his substack . He has over 20 years experience in the field of treatment of personality disorders and complex PTSD — the field of psychology in which narcissism is most invoked. We talked about what narcissism is, healthy and unhealthy; and we discuss some famous narcissists — Charli...
Dec 19, 2025•39 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Shadi is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He runs a substack with Damir Marusic called Wisdom of Crowds , and his new book is The Case for American Power . It’s the third time Shadi has been on the Dishcast. We hashed out the National Security Strategy and the future of US leadership in the world, if any. For two clips of o...
Dec 12, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com George is a journalist and novelist. He was a long-time staff writer at The New Yorker , now a staff writer at The Atlantic . He’s the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America — which won the National Book Award — and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century . His new novel is called The Emergency . It’s a parable of our polarized times — and a d...
Dec 05, 2025•54 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michel is a human rights lawyer and author. He’s currently a lecturer at Columbia Law School, where he teaches national security law and jurisprudence. He’s also a contributing editor at Lawfare. His latest book is The Light of Battle : Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower — an accessible, racy account of the run-up to D-Day, along with fascinating snapshots of his entire career. For ...
Nov 28, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mark used to be the political director for ABC News and a senior political analyst at TIME magazine. Alongside John Heilemann, he co-managed Bloomberg Politics, co-hosted the shows “With All Due Respect” and “The Circus,” and co-authored Game Change and Double Down: Game Change 2012 . Last year he launched the interactive live-video platform 2WAY, where he serves as editor-in-chief and hosts “The Morning Me...
Nov 21, 2025•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Fiona was an intel analyst under Bush and Obama, and then served under Trump as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. Currently a senior fellow at Brookings and the chancellor of Durham University, her books include Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century — which we discussed on the Dishcast i...
Nov 14, 2025•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cory is a behavioral scientist, the executive director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project at Penn, a visiting scholar at Penn, and an associate professor of psychology at New College of Florida. She’s also been Director of Academic Engagement for Heterodox Academy and an assistant professor of behavioral science at Durham University. We talk sex differences and the recent essay, “ The Great Feminizati...
Nov 07, 2025•39 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a journalist and novelist. He’s been at the Washington Post since 1986, serving as editor of the Sunday Outlook section, foreign editor, assistant managing editor for business, and now a foreign affairs columnist. He’s also written 12 espionage thrillers — including Body of Lies , which became an A-list movie. For two clips of our convo — on the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, and calling ...
Oct 31, 2025•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Karen is a tech journalist and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series — a program that trains journalists on how to cover AI. She was a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review and a reporter for the WSJ covering Chinese and US tech companies. Her first book is Empire of AI : Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI — the most accessible and readable narrative of the rise of AI. For two cl...
Oct 24, 2025•54 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Charles is a writer, social scientist, and longtime friend. He currently holds the F.A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His many books include Losing Ground , The Bell Curve (co-authored with Richard Herrnstein), Coming Apart , Facing Reality , and Human Diversity (which we discussed on the Dishcast in 2021). His new book is Taking Religion Seriously . If you t...
Oct 17, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael is a media critic and author. He’s been a columnist for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, British GQ, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Guardian. Among his many books include four on Donald Trump — the third one we covered on the Dishcast, and the latest was All or Nothing : How Trump Recaptured America . He also co-hosts the podcast “Inside Trump’s Head.” For two clips of our convo — on Trump’s closest...
Oct 10, 2025•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Katie is a journalist, podcaster, and longtime friend of the Dish. She’s a former staff writer at The Stranger, and she’s contributed to The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Free Press, and The Weekly Dish . She hosts the podcast “Blocked and Reported” alongside Jesse Singal, and she just wrote her first book, Drink Your Way Sober : The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol . For two clips of our convo...
Oct 03, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Wesley is an essayist and podcaster. He’s written extensively for Tablet, Esquire, and New York Magazine, and many of his essays were compiled in a book, The Souls of Yellow Folk . More of his writing and podcasting can be found on his substack, “ Year Zero .” He’s been chronicling the gender revolution aspect of the successor ideology on X these past few years — and he eloquently lets rip in this conversat...
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr 13 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John is a journalist, media consultant, old friend, and George W Bush’s cousin. He’s worked for NBC News as a political analyst and the Boston Globe as a columnist. In 2016, he launched a morning brief called “News Items” for News Corp, and later it became the Wall Street Journal CEO Council’s morning newsletter. News Items jumped to Substack in 2019 (and Dishheads can subscribe now for 33% off). John also ...
Sep 19, 2025•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jill is a writer and scholar. She’s a professor of American history at Harvard, a professor of law at Harvard Law, and a staff writer at The New Yorker . She’s also the host of the podcast “X-Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story.” Her many books include These Truths: A History of the United States (which I reviewed for the NYT in 2017) and her new one, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — out in a...
Sep 12, 2025•51 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Niall is one of my oldest and dearest friends, stretching back to when we were both history majors and renegade rightists at Magdalen, Oxford. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He’s also the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. He’s written 16 books...
Sep 05, 2025•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com My old and dear friend Johann has written four bestsellers: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs , Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression , Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention (discussed on the Dishcast here ), and Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs (discussed here ). His upcoming book is about the tun...
Aug 15, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Scott is a war correspondent and author. His non-fiction books include Lawrence in Arabia , Fractured Lands , and The Quiet Americans, and his novels include Triage and Moonlight Hotel . He’s also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. His new book is King of Kings : The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation . For two clips of our convo — on Jimmy Ca...
Aug 08, 2025•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Shannon is a civil rights attorney, most notably as the lead counsel for same-sex couples in the landmark marriage case in California. He’s currently the legal director at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, where he is leading several federal court challenges to the trans military ban and other new federal policies targeting transgender people. I’ve long tried to find an interlocutor on the new radical d...
Aug 01, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tara Zahra is a writer and academic. She’s currently the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. This week we discuss her latest book, Against the World : Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars. For two clips of our convo — on the starving of Germany during and after WWI, and what Henry Ford and Trump have in common — head to our YouTube page . Ot...
Jul 25, 2025•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tom is a novelist, essayist, and critic, who once described himself as a “supposed literary intellectual/homosexual/Republican.” He’s the former literary editor of GQ and a professor emeritus of English at GW. He’s the author of 11 books of fiction, including Up With the Sun , Dewey Defeats Truman , and Fellow Travelers — which was adapted into a miniseries. His nonfiction has focused on plagiarism ( Stolen...
Jul 18, 2025•1 hr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ed is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Before that, he was the FT’s Washington Bureau chief, the South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines correspondent. During the Clinton administration, he was the speechwriter for Larry Summers. The author of many books, his latest is Zbig : The Life and Times of Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet . For two clips ...
Jul 11, 2025•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (It’s the July 4th holiday. The full Dish — including my weekly column and the window contest — will return next Friday. Happy Independence Day!) Walter is the Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values at Tulane. He’s the former CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and he’s been the chairman of CNN and the editor of Time magazine. He’s currently a host of the sho...
Jul 04, 2025•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Paul is a writer, an editor, and an old friend. He’s a regular contributor to The New Yorker and a senior fellow in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He’s the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach , and his new book is The Last Supper : Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s . For two clips of our convo — on Martin Scorsese’s extraordinary ...
Jun 27, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Batya is a journalist and author. She’s a columnist for The Free Press, a co-host of The Group Chat on 2Way, and the author of two books: Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy , and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women . Her forthcoming book is about, as she puts it, “why Jews are Democrats and why the left turned on the Jews.” For two clips of our convo — on Tru...
Jun 20, 2025•41 min
