The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Today’s podcast expresses aghastness at the very idea that this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings were somehow more unfair than the ones in 2018 involving Brett Kavanaugh. And we worry over Ukraine. And see shoots of hope in New York City. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast today takes up the fascinating fact that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was not a biologist and therefore could not define what it meant to be a woman. What does this self-evidently disingenuous demurral tell us about the state of play inside the progressive-liberal-Democratic coalition? And what does watching Volodymir Zelenskyy’s TV show Servant of the People on... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to discuss his COMMENTARY column, “Believe Them.” We also talk about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first day of confirmation hearings and Eliot A. Cohen’s optimistic salvo against pessimism, Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did Volodymyr Zelensky commit a tactical error in his address to the Israeli Knesset? Has Russia’s advance in Ukraine stalled out? And will Republicans overreach, as so many observers appear to hope they will, during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings? Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s incendiary podcast goes after the mainstream media’s (and social media’s) disgraceful handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story before moving on to an unexpected New York Times editorial attacking “cancel culture” and the question of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast discusses the astounding death and casualty estimates relating to the Russians in Ukraine and what they portend. Then we talk about my article in the April issue of COMMENTARY called “Neoconservatism: A Vindication.” Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast features an insta-reaction to Wlodymir Zelinskyy’s speech to Congress and what effect it will have on the already overwhelming American support for more involvement in the effort to turn back Russia’s evil. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The news of a “stealth variant” emerging in Asia has news media on edge, but are they the only constituency left in America who is still bracing for renewed Covid restrictions? James B. Meigs joins the podcast to discuss this and more. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iran’s missile attack on U.S. positions in Iraq only highlights a problem the West has been reckoning with since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; that is the seeming impotence of diplomatic and institutional conventions when they are confronted by bad actors willing to destroy them. Also, the return of Covid in East Asia and its ripple effects in the West. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newly minted COMMENTARY contributing editor Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss his blockbuster article, “The World Has Changed and We Must Change Along With It.” What must America do now not only in relation to Russia but in relation to China as well? And we have some fiery arguments! Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices