

The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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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Feb 10, 2022 • 52min
Under Pressure
On today’s podcast: An update on Noah’s descent into activism, the brewing backlash against the political class’s reluctant decision to start paring back Covid mitigation measures, and the moral atrocity of China’s winter Olympics. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 2min
The Sleeping Giant Wakes
The Republican National Committee’s foolish January 6 committee resolution has now drawn Mitch McConnell back into the fight over what to call that day’s violence, illustrating the idiocy of the RNC’s resolution. Also, we’re now confronted with the discomfiting fact that all it took for the Covid regime to dissolve was for Democrats to be over it, too. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 4min
Progressives Turn on Progress
Today’s podcast asks why progressives are actively trying to depress kids and their constituents and give them the sense that nothing they do will make a difference. And we try to suss out what the Biden administration’s strategy is when it comes to stopping Putin from invading Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 7, 2022 • 59min
Don’t Feed the Beast
The campaign against Joe Rogan enters a new phase; one that has successfully forced Spotify to remove some episodes of his show from their library. Is this the price you pay for getting in bed with mainstream platforms? Also, the RNC’s hideous blunder and Stacy Abrams’ foolish photo op. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 3min
What Democrats Can’t Say About the Jobs Numbers
January’s unemployment report beat all expectations, and December’s upwardly revised employment figures suggest the Omicron variant isn’t the societal disruptor many expected it would be. Democrats could make political hay of that if they wanted. But do they? Also, an update on the CNN scandal. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 10min
Shamnesty International
Tablet Magazine’s senior writer, Liel Leibovitz, joins the podcast to dismantle Amnesty International’s report alleging that Israel is an apartheid state. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 2, 2022 • 55min
Quakin' Whoopi
Today’s podcast takes up the case of Whoopi Goldberg and what her dismissal of the racial component of the Holocaust actually means—and the horror of her defense at the hands of the Anti-Defamation League. And there’s more! Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 2min
Why Isn't the End of Omicron Bigger News?
Today’s podcast looks at the precipitous decline in Omicron and wonders at the fact that the media aren’t trumpeting the end of the surge and the possible return to normalcy that should follow it. Why isn’t this the headline of all headlines? We try to answer the question, and we discuss Georgetown Law School’s shameful violation of academic freedom and Whoopi Goldberg’s moral idiocy. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 2min
X Marks the Spotify
The effort by Laurel Canyon soft-rock hippie totalitarians to suppress America’s leading podcaster—with the support of mainstream media figures who now side conclusively with the idea that views they don’t like should be suppressed—takes up much of today’s episode. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 28, 2022 • 59min
From Their Warm, Healthy, Fully Vaccinated Hands
The left is beginning to engage in the debate over the efficacy of masking, long after that debate definitively ended on the right. But can Democrats and their progressive allies give up the talisman if it means retroactively confirming that Republicans were right all along? Also, the bizarre conflicting stories around Joe Biden’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


