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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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The Fabrications of Oliver Sacks
Is Trump losing the thread as we head into 2026? And what's this—secular saint Oliver Sacks, the man who brought empathy to discussions of human weakn...
The Hate Boat
With the boarding and seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, the United States's confrontation with Venezuela ascends to a higher level. What's going on?...
The Next Great Awakening?
Eli Lake joins us for a conversation that begins with Christmas music and ends with man's search for meaning. Today's COMMENTARY RECOMMENDS: The Bible...
Breaking the China
Today's podcast tries to make sense out of the incoherent Trump administration posture toward China, AI chips, tariffs, farmers, and the economy. Also...
A Bridge Colby Too Far?
A full house today takes up Pete Hegseth's speech on American defense and the national security strategy document released by the administration—Good?...
JD Vance's Christmassy Hanukkah Party
Enough with the pomposity about gerrymandering—each party does it and the other one has a cow and then they switch positions and do it all over again....
Podcasting Vs. Broadcasting
Is Pete Hegseth really in more trouble than he was last week? You'd think that from the network news, but it's probably wrong. Is anyone even watching...
A Not-Good Election for the GOP
Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute joins us as we examine the results of the special election in Tennessee that had a Republican candidate winning w...
Boats Off Venezuela, Negotiators in Moscow
Today we take up the New York Times and its implicit takedown of the Washington Post story claiming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a second...
An American War Crime?
Did the U.S. military commit a war crime with a strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, or is the story made up? What exactly is President...
Abe Interviews John
In this special post-Thanksgiving episode, I ask COMMENTARY's editor about everything from endless ideological fights to Israel's supposed informati...
Witkoff's Call, Mamdani's Transition
Today we try to parse the game behind Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff coaching his Russian counterpart on how to win Trump's favor before moving on to...
Vance Whines, the Comey Case Collapses
Adam White joins the podcast today to discuss the latest developments in the legal controversies surrounding Donald Trump and his administration, from...
Oy, There's Too Much News
Jonathan Schanzer joins today to discuss the torrent of developments from Gaza to Ukraine, from Trump-Mamdani to Rubio vs. his former Senate colleague...
Mamdani's Evil
Today's podcast takes up Zohran Mamdani's spokesman's appalling declaration that a meeting inside a synagogue about how to move to Israel was a violat...
How the Culture Promotes Anti-Semitism
As a genocidal protest breaks out in front of an Orthodox synagogue in New York City, elsewhere in the cultural capital, a books-awards group hands ou...
The Saudis Come Calling
We talk about the remarkable new relationship developing between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the remarkable developing hostility between the U.S. and V...
Could Machines Blackmail Us?
James B. Meigs joins us to talk about how scared, or not, we should be by AI. Also: What gives with NASA? Give a listen.
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Who's Being Isolated?
James Kirchick joins the podcast to discuss his new COMMENTARY article, "Neither American nor Conservative," about the isolationists of the American C...
Look Who's Talking Nicely About MAGA
Today's podcast notes eerily similar stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post on Trump's supposed troubles with MAGA—leading us to ask, i...
Do Dem Leftists Care About Actual Policy?
With the shutdown over, it's time to ask the question: What do Democrats actually want? We can't quite figure it out but we try. Also, Epstein. Give a...
Epsteinmania Returns
Late-breaking news of communications relating to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump provide us with a chance to talk about conspiracy theories and how T...
Make a Case for Growth
Today's podcast begins with continuing fallout from the end of the shutdown before moving on to worrying signs that President Trump doesn't understand...
Shutdown for What?
The government shutdown appears to be reaching its end, and that's because eight non-Democratic senators have effectively agreed to the deal that Repu...
Don't Eat That Friday-Night Brisket!
The freakout online at the suggestion that maybe Gentiles working at the Heritage Foundation might want to eat a Shabbat dinner at the home of a Jewis...
Gen-X Roundtable!
Christine Rosen, Eli Lake, and I talk about the drama of yesterday's Heritage Foundation meeting, during which Kevin Roberts took another shot at apol...
The Day After
In yesterday's elections, the Republicans took what John calls both a thumping and a shellacking. Donald Trump wasn't on the ballot, but he was on vot...
Election Day-O, Daaay-O
California, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City all have potentially game-changing elections today and we break them down rather than having a bre...
A Heritage of Shame
We welcome Eliana Johnson to the podcast as our new daily colleague following the departure of Matthew Continetti as we discuss the crisis at the Heri...
So Long, Continetti
A farewell tribute to COMMENTARY podcast stalwart Matthew Continetti as he moves on to the Wall Street Journal to ply his wares. We reminisce, we say...
Trump the World Tariff Traveler
Donald Trump and Chinese premier Xi decided to back off their big fight and make concessions to each other for a year rather than end up in a full-sca...
They Want You to Ignore the Biden Scandal
Today's podcast takes up a story you may not yet know about because the media aren't reporting on it: A blockbuster report from the House detailing th...
Trump in Asia
Today we look at Donald Trump's trip to Asia and how he might approach Xi Jinping on trade. We also consider the public's perception of what tariffs a...
Democrat Karens and Islamist Zohrans
Today's podcast asks what Democrats might take away from next Tuesday's elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City—and how the political dil...
We Love Our Robot Overlords
A conversation about how Donald Trump controls all news in this country morphs unexpectedly into a deep dive into large language models, uncanny valle...
The Ballroom, the Beef, and the Base
As the agonizing over the White House ballroom continues, we continue to analyze it. And what's up with Donald Trump's interest in Argentine beef? Fi...
Oh No! It's a...BALLROOM!!!!
The liberal meltdown over the creation of a ballroom at the White House is another example of how liberals and the left keep stepping on their own sub...
Getting on Board with Getting Hamas
Is the Trump administration's success in the Middle East going to have an effect on the way the more extreme elements of the right talk about Israel a...
No Kings—Now What?
A huge show of anti-Trump force this weekend raises the question—to what end and for what purpose? And was Israel's decision to hit back hard at Hamas...
It's Still Mamdani's Race
We discuss last night's NYC mayoral debate, in which Zohran Mamdani was bad, Andrew Cuomo was worse, and Curtis Sliwa was Curtis Sliwa. And we talk ab...