This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael Isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, where he is also editor-at-large for reporting and investigations. Daniel Klaidman is the editor-in-chief for Yahoo News. The veteran reporters have new a book called Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election . For two clips of our convo — the violent threats sp...
Feb 09, 2024•57 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Justin is a writer and broadcaster who creates dialogue between Christians and non-Christians. He co-hosts the “Re-Enchanting” podcast for Seen & Unseen, and is a guest presenter for the “Maybe God” podcast. He also contributes to Premier Christianity magazine, where he used to be editor. His new book is The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God , and he has a documentary podcast series of the same name. You ...
Feb 02, 2024•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jonathan writes a column for The Guardian, hosts their “Politics Weekly America” podcast, and is the co-host of the “Unholy” podcast with Israeli journalist Yonit Levi. He’s also the author of The Escape Artist : The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World , along with several thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. For two clips of our convo — on “white supremacy” shifting to “Jewish supremacy,”...
Jan 26, 2024•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jeff is a TV journalist and author focused on politics, media, and culture. He’s been a senior political correspondent for CBS, a senior analyst for CNN, and a political and media analyst for ABC News. He has authored or co-authored 13 books, including If Kennedy Lived , When Gore Beat Bush , and Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics . For two clips of our convo — on how...
Jan 19, 2024•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Alexandra is a journalist and public speaker. She’s the founder of Civic Renaissance, a newsletter and intellectual community dedicated to moral and cultural renewal. She’s also an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy. Her first book is The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves . For two clips of our convo — on the moments when being civil is...
Jan 12, 2024•35 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Carole is back to discuss her travails at Harvard, teaching in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. She originally appeared two years ago to discuss her superb book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us . She’s now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and an associate in Harvard’s Department of Psychology, in the lab of Steven Pinker. She’s also an...
Jan 05, 2024•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Joe is a journalist, author, old-school blogger, and an old friend. He’s written seven books, most famously Primary Colors , and he was a longtime columnist for Time magazine. This year he launched a must-read substack called “ Sanity Clause ,” and he just started a podcast with the great John Ellis called “Wise Owls.” You can listen to it right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the pl...
Dec 22, 2023•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a journalist and columnist. He writes the NYT’s flagship daily newsletter, “The Morning,” contributes to the paper’s Sunday Review section, and co-hosts “The Argument,” a weekly opinion podcast with Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg. In 2011 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on economic questions. His new book is Ours Was the Shining Future : The Story of the American Dream . The episode was ...
Dec 08, 2023•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cat is a researcher who focuses on the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, and other publications. Her fascinating new book is Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution , and I highly recommend it. For two clips of our convo — on the combat that occurs within a pregnant woman between mother and chi...
Dec 01, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (The main Dish and VFYW contest are taking a break for the holiday; we’ll be back with full coverage on December 1st. Happy Thanksgiving!) Matthew is a writer and philosopher. He’s currently a senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a contributing editor at The New Atlantis . His most famous book is Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work . He also has an exce...
Nov 24, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John Judis is an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior editor at The New Republic, and an old friend. Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing columnist at the WaPo, and politics editor of the fantastic substack The Liberal Patriot . In 2002 they wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority , and their new book is Where Have All the Democra...
Nov 17, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Graeme is a foreign correspondent, and one of the most brilliant men I’ve ever met. He’s been a staff writer at The Atlantic since 2006 and a lecturer in political science at Yale since 2014. He’s also been a contributing editor to The New Republic and books editor of Pacific Standard, and he’s the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State . Graeme was in Israel when we spoke ear...
Nov 10, 2023•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Pamela is a journalist. For nine years she was the editor of The New York Times Book Review, where she also hosted a weekly podcast, and she’s now a columnist for the Opinion section of the Times where she writes about culture, ideas, society, language and politics. She’s the author of eight books, most recently 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet . We had a fun chat about a whole host of topics. You can ...
Nov 03, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a long-time columnist for the New York Times. He’s also a commentator on “PBS NewsHour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Plus he teaches at Yale. His new book is How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen . You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Di...
Oct 27, 2023•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Spencer is a writer and podcaster. He’s currently an associate editor at the Claremont Review of Books and the host of the “Young Heretics” podcast. He’s also the author of How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises and the editor of Gateway to the Stoics . You can follow his latest writing on Substack . For two clips of our convo — on finding God in the humanities, and why so many gays throug...
Oct 20, 2023•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Martha is a philosopher and legal thinker. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, Oxford and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School. Her many books include The Fragility of Goodness , Sex and Social Justice , Creating Capabilities , and From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and ...
Oct 13, 2023•43 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, and he served as foreign editor of The Spectator and (briefly) as the editor of The New York Review of Books . He has written many books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance , Theater of Cruelty , and The Churchill C...
Oct 06, 2023•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Leor is a writer and researcher. He’s currently a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a frequent contributor to City Journal, particularly on issues of gender identity and public policy. For two clips of our convo — on the sudden skyrocketing of girls seeking transition, and how the medicalizing of trans kids destroys their ability to have orgasms in the future — pop over to our YouTube page . Other topic...
Sep 29, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Vivek is an entrepreneur and a Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential race. He founded a biotech company, Roivant Sciences, after working as an investment partner at a hedge fund. He’s also the author of Woke, Inc. and Nation of Victims . I’ll get ahead of you guys and confess that I liked him in our chat, and decided I wasn’t going to repeat the now-familiar trope of trying to get him to denounce T...
Sep 22, 2023•32 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Freddie is a writer and academic. He’s been a prolific freelancer at publications such as the NYT, the WaPo, Harper’s, The Guardian, Politico, and The Daily Dish . His first book was The Cult of Smart (reviewed on the Dish as “ Bell Curve leftism ”), and his new book is How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement . You should also follow his writing on Substack . For two clips of our convo — on the hypocrisy...
Sep 15, 2023•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sohrab is a founder and editor of Compact: A Radical American Journal , and he’s a contributing editor at The American Conservative. He spent nearly a decade at News Corp. — as the op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the WSJ opinion pages in New York and London. His first appearance on the Dishcast addressed what he sees as “the failures of liberalism.” This time, we debate ...
Sep 08, 2023•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Moynihan is one-third of The Fifth Column — the sharp, hilarious podcast he does with Kmele Foster and Matt Welch. He was previously the cultural news editor for The Daily Beast, a senior editor at Reason, and a correspondent and managing editor of Vice. It’s a fun summer chat with an old friend. We recorded the episode a few weeks ago, on July 24. For two clips — on the conspiracy theories of RFK Jr., and ...
Aug 11, 2023•55 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Josh is an old friend, and a business and political journalist. He has worked for Business Insider, the NYT, and New York magazine. He currently runs his own substack called Very Serious , and he cohosts a legal podcast called Serious Trouble , also on Substack. We talk Biden — Josh’s political hero. You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” t...
Aug 04, 2023•50 min
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 how...
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
