Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Hate Boat
With the boarding and seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, the United States's confrontation with Venezuela ascends to a higher level. What's going on…
9 months ago
The Next Great Awakening?
Eli Lake joins us for a conversation that begins with Christmas music and ends with man's search for meaning. Today's COMMENTARY RECOMMENDS: The Bibl…
9 months ago
Breaking the China
Today's podcast tries to make sense out of the incoherent Trump administration posture toward China, AI chips, tariffs, farmers, and the economy. Als…
9 months ago
A Bridge Colby Too Far?
A full house today takes up Pete Hegseth's speech on American defense and the national security strategy document released by the administration—Good…
9 months, 1 week ago
JD Vance's Christmassy Hanukkah Party
Enough with the pomposity about gerrymandering—each party does it and the other one has a cow and then they switch positions and do it all over again…
9 months, 1 week ago
Podcasting Vs. Broadcasting
Is Pete Hegseth really in more trouble than he was last week? You'd think that from the network news, but it's probably wrong. Is anyone even watchin…
9 months, 1 week ago
A Not-Good Election for the GOP
Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute joins us as we examine the results of the special election in Tennessee that had a Republican candidate winning …
9 months, 1 week ago
Boats Off Venezuela, Negotiators in Moscow
Today we take up the New York Times and its implicit takedown of the Washington Post story claiming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a secon…
9 months, 1 week ago
An American War Crime?
Did the U.S. military commit a war crime with a strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, or is the story made up? What exactly is President…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Abe Interviews John
In this special post-Thanksgiving episode, I ask COMMENTARY's editor about everything from endless ideological fights to Israel's supposed informat…
9 months, 2 weeks ago