The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 oxygen out of it before it went viral. What conceivable defense can there be for such behavior? And why did they do it? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Wolf Blitzer for being a...Republican? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 their team wins on November 3? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 and the atmosphere to which he’s contributed, which has recently culminated in a plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The crew breaks down Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate and talks a little poetry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 subsequent tweets suggest, was this a fit of pique? Also, forecasting the highlights from tonight’s vice-presidential debate. AEI scholar Matthew Continetti joins the show to discuss all this and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The president’s diagnosis has shattered the unreality of this presidency and reminded Americans of the very real consequences that result from public policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What has Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis done to the national political landscape? Will the public respond with sympathy or does the event merely reinforce the belief that the president’s recklessness has contributed to the longevity of this pandemic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices