The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Bret Stephens joins the podcast crew today to discuss the change in Israel’s government—and the complex legacy of Benjamin Netanyahu. Then we talk NATO, Biden, and the end of the pandemic. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does Jeffrey Toobin deserve to be treated with compassion and forgiveness when woke culture is busy showing the opposite of both to anyone that crosses it? And how will the media atone for their false coverage of what happened in Lafayette Park in 2020? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The progressive left is having a fit over its more moderate members, who have failed to support their transformative designs. But aren’t they saving Joe Biden’s presidency from the unforeseen consequences of pursuing a sweeping agenda on which he didn’t even run? Also, the journalistic backlash against reporting on Israel objectively. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Stirewalt joins us today to discuss his brilliant COMMENTARY article, “Republicans, Stop Believing Your Own Election Myth,” before we get to the question of what’s worse, wokeness or the new American aristocracy that is enshrining it? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a hilariously bad response to NBC’s Lester Holt when she was asked why she hadn’t visited the border yet amid her efforts to oversee the ongoing border crisis. The episode adds to the mounting evidence suggesting that Harris is not great at politics. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast points out our continuing cultural confusion when it comes to political correctness, law, and the mistreatment of women before moving on to the Democratic party’s insistence that Republicans are trying to destroy the voting franchise. And what spicy thing did Biden say about war? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The disappointing jobs report will be answered by an explosion of cliches, we say on today’s podcast, but the ability of the Biden administration and liberals in general to make excuses for the failures of their own policies is waning by the day. As is, perhaps, Donald Trump’s sanity. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tech Commentary columnist James Meigs joins the program to talk about his latest piece for the magazine “Thank God for Big Pharma.” We discuss the “lab leak” hypothesis and the terrifying consensus within the scientific community that shut its advocates up. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial guru David Bahnsen joins us today for a deep dive into the COVID numbers and offers his fascinating take on why the threat to the future is not inflation but deflation. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The numbers don’t lie. We’re weeks away from the pandemic being over in the United States, and yet the bitter clingers still threaten our future. Why? And why are Trump fans saying he will be “reinstated” as president? And why, if it happens, is Bibi Netanyahu on his way out? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices