The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast
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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Trump Warns Hamas
Eliana Johnson joins the podcast to discuss Donald Trump's telling Hamas to disarm or be disarmed. We also talk about the Democrats' fanciful claim th...
The Victory
Settle in; This is a long one. We discuss the release of the hostages, Donald Trump's extraordinary speech to the Knesset, the meaning of deterrence,...
Why Israel Had No Choice But to Win
The end of the war in Gaza follows the unprecedented two-year psychological war against Zionism, supporters of Israel, and the very idea that Jews nee...
Our Theme Song Is Wrong Today
We must not hope for the best while expecting the worst today; today is a day to celebrate while cautiously looking forward. Jonathan Schanzer joins u...
Bondi Goes Electric
Eliana Johnson joins the podcast today to talk about the unprecedented attack-dog performance on Tuesday in a Senate hearing by Attorney General Pam B...
Israel on the Cusp
Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to discuss the ways in which the maligned Israeli approach to the war in Gaza may have, in fact, made its victory...
Terrorism on Yom Kippur
We return to daily podcasting in the wake of a horrible car-ramming-stabbing spree at a synagogue in Manchester, followed by a massive pro-terrorism d...
The Shutdown Comedy
So the federal government has "shut down," which it really hasn't, actually, and here we go again. Or will this really be a huge showdown, given that...
Trump's Gaza Plan
There is much to discuss about Donald Trump's historic proposal for ending the war in Gaza: how the media has reacted, what it says about the Trump ad...
Do Trump's Vendettas Harm Trump's Agenda?
Does Donald Trump help or hurt himself by using the weapons of the presidency as personal tools for revenge? This is apart from the question of whethe...
Kingdom Comey
The indictment of James Comey causes us to go down memory lane remembering how destructive Comey was of the good working order of law and politics in...
Trump Gives It to the United Nations
We're back from Rosh Hashanah to sing the glories of Donald Trump's controversial United Nations speech, which is only controversial because he isn't...
Are We Seeing a Religious Revival?
The massive memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arizona was more of a Christian revivalist meeting than the funeral of a political figure. What does it heral...
Late Night With Jimmy Who?
The fallout from the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel continues, with the revelation that, basically, no one watches his show—so why should Disney and ABC k...
Canning Kimmel and Elevating Jew-Hatred
Eliana Johnson joins today's the podcast to talk about the reasons behind Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and the role of government in it before we move on...
The Assassins and Their Cases
Andrew C. McCarthy joins us to discuss the developments in the Charlie Kirk assassination case and the murder of health-care executive Brian Thompson,...
The Final Battle in Gaza
Israel has gone all in to finish the war Hamas started on October 7. Batten down the hatches and watch for the anti-Semitic content. Speaking of which...
Gaslighting and the Kirk Assassination
The gyrations of people who do not want to deal with the political and ideological implications of the Charlie Kirk assassination are the chief focus...
Anti-Semitism: Canary in the Coalmine
The changes in American society that will result from the assassination of Charlie Kirk have already been experienced by America's Jews and the ways w...
Charlie Kirk and the Turning Point
Noah Rothman joins us to talk about political violence and the cultural atmosphere that helped lead to the assassination of a 31 year-old man in the o...
Israel's Righteous Qatar Attack
Another remarkable historical turn as Israel makes it clear to Hamas leaders outside Gaza that they are not safe from the war they decided to wage aga...
Epstein and the Conspiracies
So now conspiracy thinking is OK, so long as it involves Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein—that seems to be the mainstream media takeaway from the cont...
Crime Matters
The horrifying murder of a young woman on the light rail in Charlotte has cast a new light on the cultural and political divide relating to crime. And...
The RFK Craziness
We discuss the confrontation between RFK Jr. and senators who tried to call him out on his behavior and views before wondering at the idea of changing...
A COMMENTARY Win!
We celebrate a triumph for COMMENTARY and for today's guest Naomi Schaefer Riley, whose article "College Board Games" exposed and brought down a progr...
The Insane Trump-Is-Dead News Cycle
More and more, progressives are not only wishing their enemies dead, but making movies lionizing those who commit violence against authority figures a...
State Capitalism and the Tariffs
Now that an appeals court has ruled against most of Trump's emergency tariffs, we may get some sense of how the economic future is going to be managed...
Stop With the Emergencies
Both the American right and the American left are addicted to the idea that we are living in a perpetual series of emergencies that require extraordin...
The Trans Shooter Cover-Up
For the second time in two years, a trans person has committed a mass shooting at a Christian school he or she attended. The mainstream media and libe...
Taylor Kelce: Dawn of a New America?
Is there a larger cultural meaning to the engagement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Does it connect somehow to Cracker Barrel ditching its redesign...
Trump's Constitutional Outrages
We can't overlook the wild swings at American norms being taken by the Trump administration over the past week, from firing someone the president cann...
Cracker Barrel Crack-Up
We dive right into the Cracker Barrel rebranding kerfuffle. Is the new logo woke or just pointless? And what's really at stake? And is the FBI's raid...
Books for First-Years, Games
In one of our chill summer episodes, the COMMENTARY crew offers individual recommendations for the best single book your inbound college freshman shou...
Here's Some Stuff We Don't Like
On another special summer podcast, the crew delves into great works of art that leave us cold or angry or depressed or that we just don't enjoy. Give...
Touring Through History
On a special news-less show, the COMMENTARY crew shares with you some of our favorite and surprising historical sites around the world. Give a listen....
Visiting Days
On this special Summer Recommendations podcast, the crew suggests places to go in America you might not have thought of or even heard of, including a...
The Best Broadway Musicals
On a special news-free podcast, we offer you our list of our favorite Broadway musicals—not necessarily the best, but our faves. Give a listen.
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Sandwich Man and the Liberal Crack-Up
The DC crime crackdown is driving Trump critics into fits of insanity and weird criminality; why can't they find a way to oppose and confront him sobe...
Cultural Honors and the Culture War
What do the Kennedy Center Honors and the Smithsonian Institution have in common? They are both expressions of the surprising determination of the Tru...
Trump's Improvisational Summit
How to make sense of the goings-on in Anchorage on Friday between the president and Vladimir Putin? We try. Who knows if we succeed. One thing that do...