The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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Nov 3, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
Fun Stories from the Republican Campaign Trail
On the Election Day podcast, when it's all over but the results, we stop the punditry and look back to elections past with our friend Daniel Casse, veteran Republican campaign hand. What happened with Clint Eastwood and the empty chair? How about...
Nov 2, 2020 · 1 hr
Eerie Echoes from 2016
The COMMENTARY podcast does something a little different to celebrate Election Day eve. We went back into the archives to reexamine the last podcast ahead of Election Day 2016 and, upon review, there are a lot of eerie similarities between then and now.
Oct 30, 2020 · 1 hr
Get Me to the Polls on Time
A few more hours...that's all the time we've got. (As Alfred Doolittle sings in "My Fair Lady.") So we discuss the final numbers—presidential job approval—that offer a pretty solid sense of where the election might end up. And the weird Senate...
Oct 29, 2020 · 57 min
Great Economic Numbers, But No Credit
Today's podcast begins with a huge economic number—33-plus percent growth. And yet we all agree the president is unlikely to get much credit and explain why. Also, why liberals are increasingly moving toward the view that anyone who disagrees with...
Oct 28, 2020 · 41 min
How Dare You Cover the News!
Today's podcast deals with the astonishing media attitude toward the rioting in Philadelphia and the continuing refusal to cover the story being told about Hunter Biden and the Biden family by Tony Bobulinski—a story we don't even really think is on...
Oct 27, 2020 · 56 min
How Liberals Gaslight: The Courts and the Media
Today's podcast reels in disbelief at the liberal disingenuousness in claiming the Right has violated norms in relation to Supreme Court nominations when the norm violators are...liberals. And then we tackle the ludicrous lengths to which liberal...
Oct 26, 2020 · 51 min
What Does Trump Know That We Don’t?
Do the Trump campaign’s efforts to appeal to the COVID fatigued voter suggest they know something about the electorate that isn’t showing up in the polling? Or is the president just flailing about in the final days of a losing campaign?
Oct 23, 2020 · 56 min
Fact-Checkers, Get to Work
The final debate of the 2020 presidential cycle featured a surprisingly competent Donald Trump and a listless Joe Biden. And that lopsided performance has led Biden’s tacit or overt supporters in the press to approach the subject of Biden’s mendacity...
Oct 22, 2020 · 57 min
Does Hunter Biden Matter?
Do the revelations involving Hunter Biden’s emails that purport to implicate his father in efforts to profit off foreign interests matter? The COMMENTARY podcast debates the issue and previews tonight’s final presidential debate.
Oct 21, 2020 · 1 hr
The Magical Hypnotic Power of Donald J. Trump
The suffocating anxiety in liberal circles and the weird complacency in Trumpian circles derives from the same unconscious belief—the belief that Donald Trump possesses supernatural powers that either threaten to or will happily make him unstoppable.
Oct 20, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
Open up the Schools, for God's Sake!
Data from New York City shows without question that schools must be opened. Meanwhile, in Fairfax County, Va., the union is demanding schools remain closed until next September. Something very, very bad is going on here. Give a listen.
Oct 19, 2020 · 57 min
Have Americans Always Been Crazy?
The podcast today takes up the subject of liberal panic that they are being lulled into a false sense of security by the polling suggesting a big Biden win before we discuss the American obsession with conspiracy theories and ask the question: Has it...
Oct 16, 2020 · 1 hr 4 min
How Trump Can Win, Maybe
Today's podcast takes up the rival Trump-Biden town halls and their overall effect and then tries to come up with a scenario under which the president wins an election almost all the polls say he is on the way to losing. Give a listen.
Oct 15, 2020 · 1 hr 4 min
Shut Up, They Explained
Today’s podcast dives deep into the behavior of the mainstream media and tech companies in response to a New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter—about the naked and deliberate way they sought to shut down access to the story and choke the...
Oct 14, 2020 · 59 min
Amy, What You Wanna Do?
Today's podcast takes up the ludicrous and offensive efforts to brand Amy Coney Barrett a colonizer and a homophobe, even as polls show the American people (and Democrats!) are taking to her. Also, what on earth was Nancy Pelosi doing attacking CNN's...
Oct 13, 2020 · 56 min
The Liberals Set Their Trump Trap
The podcast crew takes up the idea that American liberals have collectively hit upon their closing message for the election: The GOP is the party of the disease. The question, then, is: Will they change their tune and their approach to the virus if...
Oct 12, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
The Post-Truth Moment Comes for the Courts
As the Senate begins the process of hearing the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the capacity of partisan Democrats to internalize and adopt whole or partial untruths is being tested to its limits.
Oct 9, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
Can They Get Away with It?
In this episode, the COMMENTARY crew unloads on everyone. Can Joe Biden make it all the way to Election Day without saying whether he supports or opposes his party’s threats to pack the Supreme Court? Will Donald Trump ever answer for his incitements...
Oct 8, 2020 · 1 hr 4 min
The VP Debate and What We Used to Call ‘Politics’
The crew breaks down Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate and talks a little poetry.
Oct 7, 2020 · 58 min
Does Trump Have a Strategy?
Donald Trump’s decision to announce that he was walking away from the table amid negotiations with Democrats over another tranche of COVID relief sent shockwaves through the markets and the political landscape. Did he have a plan, or, as his...

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Fun Stories from the Republican Campaign Trail

Eerie Echoes from 2016

Get Me to the Polls on Time

Great Economic Numbers, But No Credit

How Dare You Cover the News!

How Liberals Gaslight: The Courts and the Media

What Does Trump Know That We Don’t?

Fact-Checkers, Get to Work

Does Hunter Biden Matter?

The Magical Hypnotic Power of Donald J. Trump

Open up the Schools, for God's Sake!

Have Americans Always Been Crazy?

How Trump Can Win, Maybe

Shut Up, They Explained

Amy, What You Wanna Do?

The Liberals Set Their Trump Trap

The Post-Truth Moment Comes for the Courts

Can They Get Away with It?

The VP Debate and What We Used to Call ‘Politics’

Does Trump Have a Strategy?