Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWitkoff's Call, Mamdani's Transition
Today we try to parse the game behind Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff coaching his Russian counterpart on how to win Trump's favor before moving on to…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Vance Whines, the Comey Case Collapses
Adam White joins the podcast today to discuss the latest developments in the legal controversies surrounding Donald Trump and his administration, fro…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Oy, There's Too Much News
Jonathan Schanzer joins today to discuss the torrent of developments from Gaza to Ukraine, from Trump-Mamdani to Rubio vs. his former Senate colleagu…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Mamdani's Evil
Today's podcast takes up Zohran Mamdani's spokesman's appalling declaration that a meeting inside a synagogue about how to move to Israel was a viola…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
How the Culture Promotes Anti-Semitism
As a genocidal protest breaks out in front of an Orthodox synagogue in New York City, elsewhere in the cultural capital, a books-awards group hands o…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Saudis Come Calling
We talk about the remarkable new relationship developing between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the remarkable developing hostility between the U.S. and …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Could Machines Blackmail Us?
James B. Meigs joins us to talk about how scared, or not, we should be by AI. Also: What gives with NASA? Give a listen.
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9 months, 4 weeks ago
Who's Being Isolated?
James Kirchick joins the podcast to discuss his new COMMENTARY article, "Neither American nor Conservative," about the isolationists of the American …
10 months ago
Look Who's Talking Nicely About MAGA
Today's podcast notes eerily similar stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post on Trump's supposed troubles with MAGA—leading us to ask, …
10 months ago
Do Dem Leftists Care About Actual Policy?
With the shutdown over, it's time to ask the question: What do Democrats actually want? We can't quite figure it out but we try. Also, Epstein. Give …
10 months ago