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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary is America's premier monthly magazine of opinion: General, yet Jewish. Highly variegated, with a unifying perspective.Listen to The Commentary Magazine Podcast, along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com. No paid subscription required.
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Trump at Davos
Today we try to figure out why Donald Trump wants to start a fight with Europe over Greenland, to what extent his Justice Department is going after th...
A Week of Madness
The cascade of frenetic actions on the part of the Trump administration over the past week—even as Trump seemed to blink on acting when it came to Ira...
Is Immigration Policy Hurting Trump Now?
Bad polling for the president raises the question of whether his pursuit of aggressive anti-immigration aims in Minneapolis and elsewhere is hurting h...
Did Trump Blink?
After days of looking like America was going to intervene in the Iranian crisis, Donald Trump pulled way back yesterday. Was this tactical? Or was he...
Blind (Liberal Supreme Court) Justice
An interesting day at the Supreme Court as the justices discussed two cases involving the issue of transgenderism in girls' sports—with some of the ju...
Is This The End of the Iranian Regime?
Eli Lake joins us to go through the history of the resistance to the Iranian regime, what makes this moment so different, and what the United States h...
Has America Become a Cosplay Country?
So much of what's been going on in this country seems performative and almost cinematic that we might need to consider how much Hollywood and pop-cult...
A New Iranian Revolution?
Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to discuss the remarkable events unfolding in Iran, with the nation possibly in full-scale revolt against its barb...
The Minnesota Car Horror
The split-second confrontation between ICE officers and a woman driving a car that appeared to aim at one of them, leading to her death, threatens yet...
The Podcastosphere and the Legacy Media
Why is Mrs. Stephen Miller promoting the views of Jenny McCarthy—and what does it mean that the Trump administration is so intimate with the world of...
Not a Good Couple of Days for Democrats
We note that the airwaves yesterday were filled with desperate efforts to distract from the Venezuela story by focusing instead on Greenland or the Ep...
Minnesota Vice
We begin with Venezuela, of course, but move on to the startling announcement by Tim Walz that he is not running for reelection as governor of Minneso...
EMERGENCY POD: Venezuela!
Donald Trump's decision to arrest Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a massive and brilliant kinetic military action may prove to have...
John Talks About His Father
Today, John returns to discuss the life of his father, Norman Podhoretz. Give a listen.
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The Meaning of Norman Podhoretz
Today, we discuss the life, work, and ideas of longtime COMMENTARY editor and intellectual giant Norman Podhoretz, who died yesterday at age 95. From...
Who Are the 'Palestine Firsters'?
Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss "The Palestine Firsters," his lead article in the January issue of COMMENTARY. Why do Ben Rhodes and a cast of...
The Intifada Really Goes Global
The attack on Bondi Beach is not an isolated incident; it's the export of the Islamist war against the Jews to areas far from Gaza. Give a listen.
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...