The Commentary Magazine Podcast

On today's podcast, the leak story gets more complicated, Chicago gets more lawless, and the New York Times gets more gaslighty. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast expresses bewilderment at the developing facts surrounding the terrible military leaks and the arrest of Jack Teixeira, gamer and social-media guy. And views the increasing bewilderment of Joe Biden on his Ireland trip with alarm and what it might portend for his reelection. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our tech columnist, James B. Meigs, joins the podcast today to talk about the kid who leaked the intelligence documents, the lab-leak hypothesis and those who lied about it, and fact-checking the fact checkers. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast asks what the big intelligence leaks actually tell us about the war in Ukraine, how Donald Trump is speaking about foreign policy, and what it means that Sen. Tim Scott might be poised to enter the presidential race. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Halperin joins the podcast today to talk about the cascade of leaked intelligence documents online, what they say about the Biden administration's policies, and how both the issue set facing the American people and the fact of Joe Biden's decline may affect the 2024 election. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast discusses the political nonsense in Tennessee and how it's a way to move the conversation about the horrifying shooting in Nashville away from the shooter's motivations to other, more politically palatable subject matter for Democrats and liberals. And yes, we talk about the Trump indictment again. Eli Lake joins us. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Trump is indicted, arrested, arraigned, and gives a speech. Chicago votes for a progressive. Wisconsin elects a progressive to the State Supreme Court. Fun! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we discuss the elections in Chicago and Wisconsin and what they may reveal about the issues of abortion and crime. We also cover new and unsettling revelations about that Chinese spy balloon. And then we drill down on Donald Trump's coming arraignment, the media spectacle, and Trump's next move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump's looming indictment has united the Republican Party behind him, it seems, and that may be everything the Democrats could possibly have wanted. We talk about that. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump has been indicted. We talk about it. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast points out the unprecedented nature of Joe Biden's attack on Benjamin Netanyahu, as it involves not international conflict but internal domestic Israeli government structures. And David Bahnsen joins us to discuss the banking crisis three weeks after the run on Silicon Valley Bank. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast wonders at Joe Biden making ice cream jokes and anti-Republican quips in response to the school shooting in Nashville and how it is he is not held more to account for his simple bad taste. Also: are we going to see the shooter's manifesto and if not, why not? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast examines the horrible school shooting in Nashville and the steps that must be taken to protect institutions at risk of future assault. What is the connection between Nashville and the shock poll that reveals a decline in American attitudes on marriage, patriotism, churchgoing, and other essentials? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Senor joins the podcast to talk about the protests in Israel, how we got here, the firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and the choices now facing Benjamin Netanyahu and the government. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we journey from the mess in Israel to the hearing on TikTok to the continuing crisis of John Fetterman to the banking story. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast ends with a conversation about the growing consensus that the Chinese military should not be dominating American social media. But before we get to that, we got some Trump, we got some DeSantis….Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast discusses the change in tactics by the Biden administration when it comes to sending tanks to Ukraine. Then: DeSantis and Trump. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast examines Ron DeSantis’s first real salvo against Donald Trump for his personal conduct even as he criticizes the prosecutor who is apparently about to indict the ex-president—and Trump’s return volley. And: China’s Xi makes his move internationally. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday’s podcast is all about the apparently weak case Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg intends to prosecute against Donald Trump and why—if the leaks are correct about the nature of the proceedings—all it will do is strengthen Trump and hurt the country. Also, Iraq 20 years later. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast takes up the breathless claim that a new source of the COVID pandemic has been located—it comes from a raccoon dog! Hmmm. Meanwhile, China is making moves in the Middle East and with Russia as it continues to elude responsibility for its role in the deaths of 7 million people from the virus. And why is Janet Yellen saying she’ll bail out some banks but not others? Give a listen. So...

Today’s podcast wonders at the notion that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg might be bringing a case against the former president whose star witnesses for the prosecution would be a convicted felon and a porn-star-sex-worker. Is that wise, or just one string in a Lilliputian trap for Donald Trump? Also, will there be extended fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse? Give a listen. Source Learn more...

Today’s podcast discusses the geopolitical impact of Russia’s harassment of an unmanned American drone, what this suggests about Ron DeSantis and his foreign-policy views, and the assault on free speech and simple good manners at Stanford Law School. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast features our old friend Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who joins us to discuss Ron DeSantis’s characterization of the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” in which we should not become entangled. And then we talk about the stunning news that China has brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia and what this says about American foreign......

Today's podcast discusses the political impact of the sudden bank crisis in the United States before turning to the Oscars. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast takes up the astonishing effort by the research organization that found COVID masking to be ineffectual to deny that its own study said what its lead investigator says it said. (To follow the logic, listen to the podcast.) Also, jobs numbers and Chinese balloons. Eliana Johnson is in for Christine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices