This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine . Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their first book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus , was a bestseller, and they’re back with a new one: Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals. For two clips of our convo — on the beginnings of dog welfare, and the “Uncle T...
Oct 04, 2024•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is an old friend, a long-time writer at The Atlantic, and a contributor to MSNBC. He’s the author of 10 books, including Trumpocalypse and Trumpocracy . For two clips of our convo — on the way Biden has empowered Trump, and the outlook that won the Cold War — pop over to our YouTube page . Other topics: Frum writing a memoir on being a Cold War baby; raised in Toronto — a city “filled with exiles and ...
Sep 27, 2024•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michelle is an opinion columnist at the New York Times, and before that she was a columnist for Slate. She has written three books: Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism , The Means of Reproduction , and The Goddess Pose . She’s also an on-air contributor at MSNBC. For two clips of our convo — debating who the real Kamala is, and how much BLM is responsible for lost black lives — pop over to our...
Sep 20, 2024•43 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 contributing editor at The American Conservative and has written several bestsellers, including The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies . His forthcoming book is Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age , which you can pre-order on Amazon . And check out his raw and honest writing on Substack, “ Rod Dreher’s Diary .” F...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Eric is a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he runs the new Centre for Heterodox Social Science. He’s also an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His new book is The Third Awokening : A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism (its title in the UK is Taboo : How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution ). He also runs a 15-week online course on the orig...
Sep 06, 2024•56 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Carville needs no introduction, but he’s a legendary consultant, a former CNN contributor, and the author of a dozen books. He currently co-hosts the Politics War Room with Al Hunt, a podcast available on Substack, which you should definitely follow for the election season. For four clips of the highly quotable Carville — on Harris’ convention speech, Vance’s conversions, Bill Clinton’s “pussy business,” an...
Aug 30, 2024•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jeffrey Toobin is a lawyer, author, and the chief legal analyst at CNN, after a long run at The New Yorker. He has written many bestselling books, including True Crimes and Misdemeanors , The Oath , The Nine , and Too Close to Call , and two others — The Run of His Life and A Vast Conspiracy — were adapted for television as seasons of “American Crime Story” on the FX channel. You can listen right away in th...
Aug 02, 2024•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Anne is a journalist and historian. She’s currently a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Agora Institute. She’s written many books, including Red Famine , Gulag: A History , and Twilight of Democracy , and her new one is Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World . Also check her substack, “ Open Letters .” For two clips of our convo — on whether Trum...
Jul 26, 2024•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Lionel Shriver is an author and journalist. She’s written 17 novels, most notably We Need to Talk About Kevin , and in 2022 she published her first book of nonfiction, Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction . She’s currently a columnist for The Spectator, and her new book is Mania , a satirical novel about a dystopian movement that claims that everyone is equally smart. We ...
Jul 19, 2024•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Stephen Fry is a legendary British actor, comedian, director, writer, and narrator. His TV shows include “A Bit of Fry & Laurie,” “Jeeves and Wooster,” and “Blackadder,” and his films include Wilde , Gosford Park , and Love & Friendship . His Broadway career includes “Me and My Girl” and “Twelfth Night.” He’s produced several documentary series, including “Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressiv...
Jul 12, 2024•46 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 back on the Dishcast to discuss his new book, You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke Gnostic L...
Jul 05, 2024•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com The best political reporter in Britain returns to the Dishcast to discuss the election on July 4. Tim has been a chief political commentator at The Sunday Times since 2014, after serving eight years as political editor. His first two books, All Out War and Fall Out, are indispensable to understanding the politics of Brexit, and his new book is No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris. For two clips of...
Jun 28, 2024•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Elizabeth Corey is an academic and writer. She’s an associate professor of political science in the Honors Program at Baylor University and the author of the 2006 book, Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics . She also writes for First Things and serves on the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. After many of you asked me to do a podcast on my intellectual mentor, we delve i...
Jun 21, 2024•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nellie is a writer and reporter. She has worked for many mainstream publications, most notably the NYT covering Silicon Valley. Now she is teamed up with her wife, Bari Weiss, to run The Free Press — a media company they launched on Substack in 2021. Nellie’s weekly news roundup, TGIF, is smart and hilarious, and so is her new book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History . F...
Jun 14, 2024•58 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com George writes a twice-weekly column on politics and foreign affairs for the Washington Post, a column he launched in 1974. He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC and NBC News. The author of 14 books, his latest is American Happiness and Discontents , but the one we primarily cover in this episode is The Conservative Sensibility — which I reviewed for the NYT. For two clips of our convo — on why the presi...
Jun 07, 2024•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Noah is a journalist who covers economics and geopolitics. A former assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University and an early blogger, he became an opinion columnist at Bloomberg in 2014. He left after seven years to focus on his own substack, Noahpinion , which you should definitely check out. For two clips of our convo — on why we should fear a military strike from China, and the go...
May 31, 2024•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bill needs no introduction, but he’s been the formidable host of HBO’s Real Time for 21 years now, and before that he hosted Politically Incorrect , which ran from 1993 to 2002. He has a new book out, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You — a collection of his best editorials on Real Time. Also check out his podcast, “Club Random,” which he recently expanded into a pod network, Club Random Studios. Bill ma...
May 24, 2024•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Oren is a writer and policy advisor. In 2012, he was the domestic policy director for Romney’s presidential campaign, and in 2018 he wrote The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. In 2020, he founded the think tank American Compass , where he serves as executive director. He’s also a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times. For two clips of our convo — on how Chin...
May 17, 2024•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Adam is the best magazine editor of my generation, and an old friend. From 2004 to 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, and before that he edited the New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days — a weekly news magazine covering art and culture in NYC. His first book is The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing . For two clips of our convo — on the bygone power of magazines, and the birth o...
May 10, 2024•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com My old and dear friend Johann just released his latest book, Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs . That follows Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015), Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression (2018), and Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention (2022), which we covered on the Dishcast. For two clips of o...
May 03, 2024•59 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Kara is a journalist who has covered the business of the Internet since 1994. She was the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, and she's worked for the NYT, the WaPo, and the WSJ. She’s now the host of the podcast “On with Kara Swisher” and the co-host of the “Pivot” podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York Magazine. Her new memoir is Burn Book: A Tech Love Story . It’s a fun read, and ...
Apr 19, 2024•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Eli is a journalist and friend. He’s a former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and a former columnist for the Bloomberg View. He’s now a reporter for The Free Press, a contributing editor at Commentary Magazine, and the host of his own podcast, The Re-Education . I thought I should have a strong Israel supporter to come on and challenge my recent columns. For two clip...
Apr 12, 2024•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Neil is a writer and historian. He used to be a contributing columnist at The Week, and he now co-hosts the “Past Present” history podcast. His first book was We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics, and his new one is Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right. For two clips of our convo — on when the Postal Service snooped on gay men’s letters, and Trump’s gro...
Apr 05, 2024•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Danny is a journalist, politician, and old friend. Formerly an adviser to Prime Minister John Major, he was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. He’s a former executive editor of The Times of London and is still there as a weekly political columnist. He’s also a director of Chelsea Football Club. His latest book is Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (the title in th...
Mar 29, 2024•39 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Richard is a scientist, author, and public speaker. From 1995 to 2008 he was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and he's currently a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. Among his many bestselling books are the The Selfish Gene , The God Delusion , and his two-part autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and A Brief Candle in the Dark...
Mar 22, 2024•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Abigail is an independent journalist and author. Her first book, Irreversible Damage : The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters , was a bestseller, and her new book is a bestseller even the NYT has had to recognize eventually. It’s called Bad Therapy : Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up . She also has a substack, The Truth Fairy . Check it out. For two clips of our convo — on the news of UK restricting pube...
Mar 15, 2024•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Christian is a poet and author, and, in my view, one of the most piercing writers on faith in our time. He served as the editor of Poetry magazine from 2003 to 2013, and his work has appeared in The Atlantic , Harper’s Bazaar , The New Yorker , the NYT Book Review and others. He’s the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books, and his new one is called Zero at the Bone : Fifty Entries Against...
Mar 08, 2024•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Rob is a young independent writer. His work has been featured in the NYT, the WSJ, the Boston Globe and others, and he writes a popular substack that coined the term “ luxury beliefs .” He had a tumultuous childhood in foster care, joined the Air Force at 17, and went on to graduate from Yale and Cambridge. He tells that story in his first book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class . ...
Mar 01, 2024•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jeff is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts “We the People,” a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic . A former house-mate of mine and friend for 40 years, Jeff began his journalistic career writing some stellar essays on the Supreme Court in the TN...
Feb 23, 2024•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nate is a statistician and writer focused on American politics and sports, and a longtime friend from the blog days. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and now he writes his own substack, Silver Bulletin. He’s the author of The Signal and the Noise , and his forthcoming book is On the Edge: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think ( pre-order here ). For two clips of our convo —...
Feb 16, 2024•40 min
