This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Lee is an investigative journalist. He was a long-time reporter at The Intercept, and in late 2022 he was one of the recipients of the Twitter Files. He left the MSM this year to launch his own substack at leefang.com . You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app — though Spotify sadly doesn’...
Jul 28, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Matt is a political journalist. He’s been a senior contributor for The Daily Caller and a columnist for AOL’s Politics Daily, and he’s currently a senior columnist at The Daily Beast. He also hosts his own podcast and YouTube show, “Matt Lewis & The News." In this episode we discuss his new book, Filthy Rich Politicians . For two clips of our convo — on the perception of insider trading in Congress, and...
Jul 21, 2023•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jean Twenge is a writer and researcher who focuses on generational differences. She’s a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the author of seven books, most notably iGen . Her new one is Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents . Our conversation focused mainly on how fucked up Gen Z is, and why. For two clips of our convo — on why Gen Zers ...
Jul 14, 2023•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Dave is a political reporter. He’s worked for The Washington Post, Slate, Bloomberg Politics, and he’s currently at Semafor. He’s also a contributing editor at Reason. In 2017 he wrote a book called The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, and he’s also a Daily Dish alum . For two clips of our convo — on how the MSM doesn’t talk like ordinary people, and the role of Biden’s age in the next ...
Jul 07, 2023•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Erick is a radio host and writer. He was an old-school blogger at RedState, serving as editor-in-chief, and he later became a political contributor for CNN and Fox News. Today he hosts the “Erick Erickson Show” on WSB Radio in Atlanta and runs a popular substack of the same name. He’s also in Reformed Theological Seminary working toward a PhD in theology. For two clips of our convo — on why evangelicals see...
Jun 30, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Dr. Tabia Lee is an educator and consultant. She was the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza College until she was fired for her heterodox views on DEI. (Her GoFundMe is here .) She’s also a cofounder of Free Black Thought. For two clips of our convo — on teaching kids as individuals, and the wrong way to ask for pronouns — pop over to our YouTub...
Jun 23, 2023•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is an extraordinary investigative reporter, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, and an old acquaintance. Several of his stories and books have been adapted into major motion pictures, including The Lost City of Z , Old Man and the Gun , and Killers of the Flower Moon . His new book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — and the film rights have already been acquired by Scorsese...
Jun 16, 2023•36 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Deneen is a writer and academic. Based at the University of Notre Dame, he is Professor of Political Science and holds the David Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies. His books include The Odyssey of Political Theory and Why Liberalism Failed , and his new one is Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future . For two clips of our convo — on his book using Marxist analysis in defense of ...
Jun 09, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ben is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Semafor, a global news company. He was an old-school blogger at Politico and others, the first editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, and the media columnist for the NYT. His new book is Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral . I wrote what he called a “savage and delightful” review of his book , but we remain friends and went at...
Jun 02, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Where are we in the war between the West and Russia in Ukraine? We asked Sam back to help us figure it out. He’s a tutor in the Department of Political Science at Oxford and a member of the Royal United Services Institute in London. He’s an expert on Russia’s wars in Chechnya and Syria, and he’s been to Russia and Ukraine many times in the course of getting his International Relations DPhil. His forthcoming...
May 26, 2023•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John is an animal advocate and social media professional ( @JohnOberg ). He has served as the director of new media for The Humane League and the director of communications for Vegan Outreach, but now he’s an independent advocate funded by individual donations . He’s also a powerlifter — not something you usually associate with vegans. In this episode he tries to convince me to give up meat. You can listen ...
May 19, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Chris is a political analyst and author. He worked at Fox News for more than a decade until they fired him in the wake of the 2020 election, when he was part of the election team that accurately called Arizona for Biden. He’s now the politics editor for NewsNation and a contributing editor for The Dispatch. His new book is Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back . He’s ...
May 12, 2023•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nigel Biggar is an Anglican priest, academic and writer. Formerly the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, he now directs the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life and chairs the board of the UK’s Free Speech Union. The author of many books on ethics, his controversial new one is Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning . For two clips of our convo — debating what makes an empir...
May 05, 2023•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mark is a journalist, political scientist, historian of ideas, and a longtime friend since my twenties, when we studied political thought together. He has taught at NYU and the University of Chicago, and he’s currently a professor of humanities at Columbia. His many fine books include The Once and Future Liberal , The Reckless Mind , and The Shipwrecked Mind , and his forthcoming book is Ignorance and Bliss...
Apr 28, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Susan is a philosopher and writer focusing on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University, and in 2000 assumed her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She’s the author of nine books, including Evil in Modern Thought , Moral Clarity and Learning from the Germans . Her new book is Left Is Not Woke . W...
Apr 21, 2023•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bob is a foreign affairs and travel journalist, and a scholar of the classics. For three decades he reported for The Atlantic and wrote for many other places, including the editorial pages of the NYT and WaPo — and TNR back in my day. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and is a senior adviser at Eurasia Group. He’s the author of 21 books, including...
Apr 14, 2023•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael, an old friend and acquaintance, is a writer and academic. He’s taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and UT-Austin. He’s been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s and The New Republic, where I published him often, and he now writes frequently for the NYT and Financial Times. Michael also co-founded the think tank New America. The author of many books, his most recent is The New Class W...
Apr 07, 2023•39 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jon is the chief national correspondent for Yahoo News and the host of “The Long Game” podcast. His first book was Camelot’s End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party , and his new book is Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation . You can also follow Jon’s writing on his substack, Border-Stalkers , and on his website, jonwardwrites.org . For two clips of...
Mar 31, 2023•55 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Hannah is an award-winning journalist with 15 years at the BBC. She is currently the Investigations Producer at Newsnight — the BBC’s flagship program for news and current affairs — and before that she was in BBC Radio, producing and reporting documentaries. She just published her first book, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children . Twenty-two publishe...
Mar 24, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com James is a Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer. His life’s work has been the application of the thought of René Girard — the French theoretician of desire and violence — to the understanding of basic Christianity. He has also stood up for truthfulness about gays and lesbians in the life of the Church; and has been a good friend for many years. Among his many books are The Joy of Being Wrong , Faith...
Mar 17, 2023•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cathy is a libertarian journalist and author. She’s currently a staff writer at The Bulwark, a columnist for Newsday, and a frequent contributor to Reason magazine. She has written two books: Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality , and Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood . We talk about how her life under totalitarianism informed her views on the war in Ukra...
Mar 10, 2023•56 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. His forthcoming book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism . I regard him as one of the great minds of our time, and this is one of my favorite pods ever. For two clips of our convo — how...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Aurelian is a political scientist and professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. His two most recent books are A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought and Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes . His forthcoming book is Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals . If you think you know what moderation is, Aurelian will surprise you. Not mushy; no...
Feb 24, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jill is a journalist and lawyer. She has been a columnist for The Guardian, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and an old-school blogger at Feministe. She’s the author of OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind and The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness . Currently a columnist for CNN, Jill also runs her own substack and writing retreats around the world. For two c...
Feb 17, 2023•55 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nicholas Wade is a journalist with a long, distinguished career at the New York Times, the magazine Nature, and the journal Science. He’s the author of many books, including A Troublesome Inheritance , The Faith Instinct , and Before the Dawn . Last year he became one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously consider the lab leak theory, so in this episode we focus on his querulous and disturbing trac...
Feb 10, 2023•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com After working as a hairstylist for over a decade, Ben got a creative writing degree from Columbia University and started contributing to publications such as Newsweek and The Washington Examiner. Raised in a Christian cult, he’s close to publishing a memoir, Cis White Gay , about his liberation from what he calls the Church of Social Justice. You can also read Ben on his substack . I find his story a fascin...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Rod is an old-school blogger and author living in Budapest. He’s a senior editor at The American Conservative and has written several bestsellers, including The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies . He’s currently writing a book about bringing the enchantment back to Christianity in a time of growing secularism. He was enchanted himself after taking LSD in college, putting him on the path to Christianity —...
Jan 27, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com The man himself. Taibbi is an investigative reporter in the Gonzo tradition who had a long career at Rolling Stone magazine, where he won the 2008 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. He’s written several bestselling books, including Griftopia and The Great Derangement , and now runs a wildly successful substack, TK News. Almost every less-talented hack hates him. For two clips of our convo —...
Jan 20, 2023•51 min
Glenn is an academic and writer. At the age of 33, he became the first African-American professor of economics at Harvard to get tenure, and he’s currently the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University, as well as a Paulson Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His longtime podcast, The Glenn Show, is now on Substack , where he regularly appears with John McWhorter. He’s currently writing a memoir of his incredibly colorful life, The Enemy Within , which we talk about at length. Y...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Back for a second pod appearance, Nick is a reporter at the Washington Post covering immigration and DHS, and before that he was a foreign correspondent based in Mexico City and Havana. This time we discuss not just the unending border crisis but the spiraling fentanyl emergency, which Nick and his colleagues just covered in a must-read seven-part investigation . I know few people as honest and transparent as Nick on what’s actually happening at the border. For two clips of our convo — on how th...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 24 min
