The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Partisans on both sides of the spectrum are increasingly disinclined to recognize the legitimacy of political outcomes they don’t like. How did this happen? And can it be reversed before it’s too late? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a three-show break, the COMMENTARY crew is back to talk about the crisis engulfing the world of progressives, which is to say, the crisis that crises are not causing ordinary people to become crisis-mongers. Call it “crisis fatigue.” Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Senor joins the podcast today to talk about the horrible inflation numbers and the meaning of Biden’s Mideast trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Then the podcast crew talks about the January 6 hearings. Give a listen. NOTE: We are off Thursday, July 14, Friday, July 15, and Monday, July 18. We’ll be back on Tuesday the 19th with more fun blather. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast features Matt Continetti and Jim Meigs talking about Jill Biden’s jaw-dropping gaffe in addressing a “LatinX IncluXion Luncheon” in Texas, Elon Musk’s strange Twitter behavior, and the astounding images of the universe being generated by the Webb Telescope. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast takes up a shocking New York Times poll that finds the president’s approval rating at a catastrophic 33 percent, with nearly two-thirds of Democrats wanting another candidate in 2024. And what’s this about the January 6 committee not bothering to ask Trump’s White House counsel what he might have said on that day? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast concerns the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe—and takes particular note of a shocking Associated Press piece about him and his death. Is there no decency left anywhere? Also, why the good jobs number is also bad. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peerless historian and political analyst Andrew Roberts joins the podcast today to give us the skinny on Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister of Great Britain—what occasioned it, what Johnson might do now, and who will succeed him. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the first time, we have two guests on the podcast—Eli Lake and Eliana Johnson—to talk about the strange emergence all at once of anti-Biden stories in the mainstream media and what they portend. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the publication day of Noah Rothman’s The Rise of the New Puritans, Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to discuss Noah’s book, the horrible massacre in Highland Park at the July 4th parade, and the troubling news out of Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court’s final day of a consequential term ended no less consequentially. Legal scholar Adam White joins the podcast once again to break down the Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency and its sweeping implications for the administrative state. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices