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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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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...
Trump's Not Fetishizing 'Peacemaking'
Donald Trump is telling Hamas to fulfill its end of the deal or he will tell Israel to go back in and go get the bodies of the hostages Hamas is still...
Trump Warns Hamas
Eliana Johnson joins the podcast to discuss Donald Trump's telling Hamas to disarm or be disarmed. We also talk about the Democrats' fanciful claim th...
The Victory
Settle in; This is a long one. We discuss the release of the hostages, Donald Trump's extraordinary speech to the Knesset, the meaning of deterrence,...
Why Israel Had No Choice But to Win
The end of the war in Gaza follows the unprecedented two-year psychological war against Zionism, supporters of Israel, and the very idea that Jews nee...
Our Theme Song Is Wrong Today
We must not hope for the best while expecting the worst today; today is a day to celebrate while cautiously looking forward. Jonathan Schanzer joins u...
Bondi Goes Electric
Eliana Johnson joins the podcast today to talk about the unprecedented attack-dog performance on Tuesday in a Senate hearing by Attorney General Pam B...
Israel on the Cusp
Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to discuss the ways in which the maligned Israeli approach to the war in Gaza may have, in fact, made its victory...
Terrorism on Yom Kippur
We return to daily podcasting in the wake of a horrible car-ramming-stabbing spree at a synagogue in Manchester, followed by a massive pro-terrorism d...
The Shutdown Comedy
So the federal government has "shut down," which it really hasn't, actually, and here we go again. Or will this really be a huge showdown, given that...
Trump's Gaza Plan
There is much to discuss about Donald Trump's historic proposal for ending the war in Gaza: how the media has reacted, what it says about the Trump ad...
Do Trump's Vendettas Harm Trump's Agenda?
Does Donald Trump help or hurt himself by using the weapons of the presidency as personal tools for revenge? This is apart from the question of whethe...
Kingdom Comey
The indictment of James Comey causes us to go down memory lane remembering how destructive Comey was of the good working order of law and politics in...
Trump Gives It to the United Nations
We're back from Rosh Hashanah to sing the glories of Donald Trump's controversial United Nations speech, which is only controversial because he isn't...
Are We Seeing a Religious Revival?
The massive memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arizona was more of a Christian revivalist meeting than the funeral of a political figure. What does it heral...
Late Night With Jimmy Who?
The fallout from the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel continues, with the revelation that, basically, no one watches his show—so why should Disney and ABC k...
Canning Kimmel and Elevating Jew-Hatred
Eliana Johnson joins today's the podcast to talk about the reasons behind Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and the role of government in it before we move on...
The Assassins and Their Cases
Andrew C. McCarthy joins us to discuss the developments in the Charlie Kirk assassination case and the murder of health-care executive Brian Thompson,...