The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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Dec 1, 2020 · 1 hr 8 min
The Elite Thinks It Knows Best
Today's podcast takes up elite condescension—in advice on how to use words to convince people to be more responsible pandemic citizens and on the credentialism that limits social mobility and privileges the already privileged. Give a listen.
Nov 30, 2020 · 59 min
Emergencies Aren't Supposed to Last Forever
Today's podcast takes up the Supreme Court's ruling on religious shutdowns, the COVID spike that doesn't quite seem as horrendous as the conventional wisdom says, and the crocodile tears being shed over the Iranian nuclear scientist who was...
Nov 25, 2020 · 56 min
Whom Can We Trust? We Can Trust You.
Today's pre-Thanksgiving podcast concludes with our heartfelt expressions of gratitude for family, friends, co-workers... and our readers and listeners. Before that, we take up new CDC guidance on quarantining and an astonishing thing Barack Obama...
Nov 24, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Trump's Stolen-Election Gambit Is Over
With the news that Donald Trump is allowing the transition to begin, the post-election madness has pretty much come to an end. What will its long-term consequences be, if any? Give a listen....
Nov 24, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
Trump's Stolen-Election Gambit Is Over
With the news that Donald Trump is allowing the transition to begin, the post-election madness has pretty much come to an end. What will its long-term consequences be, if any? Give a listen.
Nov 23, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
There Is No Kraken
Our podcast crew wonders at the disintegration of the Trump case and the dissolution of the Trump legal team and asks whether it is comic or tragic and what the fallout will be. And then we take up the incoming Biden foreign policy team and how woke...
Nov 20, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
Enough Already!
What, our podcast asks, does it mean when the best thing you can say about the Trump fraud allegations are that the president is crazy and not that he's up to something politically? And what are the consequences going to be for teachers' unions as...
Nov 19, 2020 · 50 min
Badfellas
Today's podcast features some out-and-out ranting against the egregious behavior of New York's Andrew Cuomo before we go on to rant about the egregious headline writing in the New York Times and the egregious ideas of some Democratic officials...
Nov 18, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
One Test to Save Us All?
Today's podcast takes up a promising proposal for a home "contagiousness" test that everyone can take, as described by Harvard's Michael Mina in this article in Time. Will empowering the American people in this way work? We disagree on that. And we...
Nov 17, 2020 · 1 hr
Biden’s Challenges in the Middle East and at Home
Recent revelations involving Iran’s nuclear program will leave Joe Biden with some hard choices to make about America’s foreign policy toward the region. But Biden will face resistance from his party’s left flank if he is to embrace and navigate the...
Nov 16, 2020 · 59 min
The Democrats Have a Problem
2020 Election Superstar Steve Kornacki joins our podcast today to discuss the fascinating and unprecedented political situation now facing Joe Biden—with what is likely to be a Republican Senate and a teeny-tiny Democratic majority in the House. How...
Nov 13, 2020 · 52 min
They Don’t Know How to Quit Him
What is driving the political world’s fixation with the president even as he has largely ceded the spotlight to his rival? Is it Trump’s still menacing but largely banal self-affirmations on Twitter, or is Joe Biden just such an unenthusiastic...
Nov 12, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Andrew Cuomo Bans Your Family
So the COVID surge has Andrew Cuomo banning in-home gatherings of groups larger than 10. Can he do this? Can the surge cause new lockdowns that people will follow? And what will the economic consequences be? Give a listen....
Nov 12, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
We’re Supposed to Listen to Cuomo? Really?
So the COVID surge has Andrew Cuomo banning in-home gatherings of groups larger than 10. Can he do this? Can the surge cause new lockdowns that people will follow? And what will the economic consequences be? Give a listen.
Nov 11, 2020 · 54 min
The Outrage Addicts Keep Shooting Up
The podcast today examines how Joe Biden came out and calmly said he'd be president soon and didn't much care what Donald Trump was doing—and three seconds later the political world had a collective nervous breakdown over a weird series of firings and...
Nov 10, 2020 · 56 min
Liberal Hypocrites
Today's podcast dives deep into the hypocrisy of those who are decrying the Trump effort to claim voter fraud when they spent four years saying Russians stuffed our ballot boxes and Stacey Abrams won Georgia in 2018 when she lost by 60,000 votes. More...
Nov 9, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Be a Man
The podcast considers how we can turn the page on the Trump presidency now that Biden is president-elect—and how conservative ideas of manliness should both govern the president's behavior going forward and what his most loyal supporters should...
Nov 6, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives
The podcast crew talks about how things will function in a brave new world in which Joe Biden will be president—while at the same time the Republican Party lives to fight another day with an unexpected surge below the presidential level. Give a listen.
Nov 5, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
Republicans Did Well. Trump Did Not.
The podcast today examines the polling results that show net gains for the GOP in the House and surprising holds in Senate races suggesting the Republicans will maintain their majority next term. At the same time, Donald Trump seems to have lost at...
Nov 4, 2020 · 53 min
Sleep No More! Election Doth Murder Sleep!
Yes, we Commentary podcasters were up all night, like you, and so we spend some time trying to speak coherently about what happened, what is happening, and why pollsters should be put in a rocketship and fired directly at the sun. Give a listen.

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The Elite Thinks It Knows Best

Emergencies Aren't Supposed to Last Forever

Whom Can We Trust? We Can Trust You.

Trump's Stolen-Election Gambit Is Over

Trump's Stolen-Election Gambit Is Over

There Is No Kraken

Enough Already!

Badfellas

One Test to Save Us All?

Biden’s Challenges in the Middle East and at Home

The Democrats Have a Problem

They Don’t Know How to Quit Him

Andrew Cuomo Bans Your Family

We’re Supposed to Listen to Cuomo? Really?

The Outrage Addicts Keep Shooting Up

Liberal Hypocrites

Be a Man

The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives

Republicans Did Well. Trump Did Not.

Sleep No More! Election Doth Murder Sleep!