The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Catherine is a philologist with a particular focus on Augustine of Hippo. She’s both the Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. The author of many books, her most recent is Augustine the African . We had an exhilarating afternoon t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com My old friend Chris — the most intelligent, sane, and well-read conservative thinker writing in America today — returns to the Dishcast for his fourth appearance. He’s a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a contributing editor to the Claremont Review of Books , a contributing writer for the NYT and The...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Evan is a former campaign fundraiser and political strategist for Democrats. She just published her first book, Nothing Left : Confessions of a Democratic Operative , which really blew me away. She’s also a writer and podcaster on Substack . The episode was recorded on October 13, 2026, and aired on October 1...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael is the best nonfiction writer in America — and another friend from the early TNR days. He’s the author of so many bestsellers, including Liar’s Poker , Moneyball , The Blind Side , and Flash Boys . He was on the Dishcast four years ago to discuss The Premonition: A Pandemic Story , and last year to di...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Emily is a senior editor at the New York Times Book Review. She’s also worked as a senior editor at The New Yorker, an ideas reporter for the NYT, a fashion features writer at Vogue, and a deputy editor of Lingua Franca magazine. Her new book is  The Frenchmen : Or, My Life in Theory . A polished transcript i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jake is a journalist and a dear old friend, starting in our early days as interns together at TNR. He’s the former longtime editor of Slate and the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries. He’s also the chairman of The Committee to Protect Journalists and a regular contributor to the New York Rev...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Arianna is a writer and businesswoman. She co-founded The Huffington Post in 2005, and after it was acquired by AOL, she became the president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. She’s currently the CEO of Thrive Global and the author of 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution ....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Azam is an international investigative reporter for the New York Times. He used to be the Times bureau chief in Afghanistan, as well as Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He won a Pulitzer last year for his work on the US intervention in Afghanistan, among other awards. He’s also the author of  Fear...

In our last summer-break podcast two-fer, we’re re-running two very different conversations on sex and race, with two very different characters: Louise Perry and Glenn Loury . Next Friday we’ll be back with fresh Dish as the new season of Dishness kicks off after Labor Day with some great guests lined up for the fall. We’ll also be introducing Weekly Dish 3.0! Stay tuned. Louise is a writer and ca...

In our last summer-break podcast two-fer, we’re re-running two very different conversations on sex and race, with two very different characters: Glenn Loury and Louise Perry. Next Friday we’ll be back with fresh Dish as the new season of Dishness kicks off after Labor Day with some great guests lined up for the fall. We’ll also be introducing Weekly Dish 3.0! Stay tuned. Glenn is an academic, writ...

(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) Charles is a writer, social scientist, and longtime friend. He currently holds the F.A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at AIE, and his many books include Losing Ground , The Bell Curve (co-authored with Richard Herrnstein), Coming Apart...

(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) The academic career of Cornel West is long and storied. He has taught religion, philosophy, and African-American studies at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and Union Theological Seminary. He has written or contributed to more than 20 books, including R...

(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) In addition to the Middle East , another topic that has generated a lot of heat on the Dish since 2020 is the issue of the gender revolution and the TQ+ movement. So here are two perspectives from an early pod — that shows again how we at the Dis...

(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) The Middle East has become one of the most contested topics here at the Dish. So on our summer break, we thought we’d run some classics, popular with Dishheads and ageing well. So here’s the great and humane Yossi Klein Halevi from 2022. Yossi is...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (The full Dish is on vacation until Friday, September 4. This week’s episode was recorded on July 21.) John is a journalist and political commentator. He’s the founder and president of the Danube Institute, the international editor of Quadrant Magazine, associate editor of the Hungarian Review, former editor...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ross is a journalist and novelist. He’s the editor-in-chief of The Metropolitan Review, and a columnist for the Nation and UnHerd. He’s the author of six books, including his new novel, Colossus . A new non-fiction book, about the rise of Zohran Mamdani, is coming soon. Find much more of his writing on his su...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Megan is an old friend, a journalist, and an OG blogger — starting way back in 2001. We were bloggers at The Atlantic together, and she went on to write for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Bloomberg View. She’s now a WaPo columnist, a contributing writer at The Dispatch, and a co-host of the podcasts “Reasonab...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Robert P. George is a legal scholar and political philosopher. At Princetown, he’s the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He’s also a senior fellow at both the American Enterprise Institute and the Witherspoon Institute, whic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a historian and perhaps the greatest living film critic. He’s the author of more than 20 books, including biographies of David O. Selznick and Orson Welles, and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film . His new book is called A Sudden Flicker of Light : A Revisionist History of Movies . It’s a wonder...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Stephen is a psychoanalyst and author. He used to teach clinical technique at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and also psychoanalytic theory at University College London. He’s the author of The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves , and his latest book is Love’s Labor : How We Break and Make the Bon...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John is a political philosopher. He retired from academia in 2007 as Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, and he’s now a regular contributor and lead reviewer at the New Statesman. He’s the author of two dozen books, and the most recent is The New Leviathans : Thoughts After Libera...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bob is a journalist and the author of many books, including The Moral Animal , Nonzero , The Evolution of God , and Why Buddhism Is True . He’s written for countless magazines, including The New Republic, where he co-wrote the TRB column with Mickey Kaus. They also co-founded Bloggingheads TV, and Bob taught...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tiffany is a cultural historian, writer, and broadcaster. She has been a critic and presenter on BBC Radio 4 and now serves as a trustee of the British Museum. Her latest book is Strangers and Intimates : The Rise and Fall of Private Life. It’s a fascinating book of history and political insight: how privacy...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Daniel, previously the editor-at-large at The American Conservative, is currently the editor of Modern Age, a conservative academic quarterly journal. He’s also a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation and a columnist for The Spectator — and one of the few Trump supporters all...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ben is a writer and political adviser. He served as a deputy national security advisor and speechwriter to Obama for both terms. He’s currently a co-host of “Pod Save the World,” a contributing opinion writer for the NYT, and a contributor for MS NOW. He’s the author of After the Fall and The World as It Is ,...