The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Tech commentary columnist James B. Meigs is back on the show today to talk about how the scientific community’s conduct creates environments where anti-scientific conspiracy theories thrive. Also, the hosts discuss the Democrats’ climate change/inflation bill and the attack on Republicans who voted against the PACT Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss the strange surge of stories about how Joe Biden is on the verge of triumph just as inflation is getting worse and we're in a recession (probably). Is any of this rational? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast takes up the mainstream media carry water for the Biden White House after the sobering news of a second straight quarter of negative economic growth. And what's this? Two gargantuan spending bills just at a time when the Fed is laboring to deal with inflation? Are we taking crazy pills? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast takes up the absolutely horrible polling for the president this week, showing him at an all-time low for post-war presidents at this stage of their tenures and Democrats openly saying nationally and in New Hampshire that they do not want him to run again. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast takes up the startling new media tour undertaken by Anthony Fauci and a gobsmacking article in the New York Times that essentially tells everybody to go back to living as though it were Summer 2020. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eli Lake joins the show today to discuss a crisis of legitimacy among elite institutions that don’t believe you can handle the truth. From the economy, to Covid, to climate change, you must be gently guided to their preferred conclusions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast takes up Joe Biden's COVID diagnosis and some of the most appalling moments from the January 6 hearings. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The various manias that have overtaken popular political culture, which we itemize, are beginning to incur backlashes the likes of which we would not have seen two years ago. Is that a response to commercial incentives, or are Americans fed up? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Partisans on both sides of the spectrum are increasingly disinclined to recognize the legitimacy of political outcomes they don’t like. How did this happen? And can it be reversed before it’s too late? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a three-show break, the COMMENTARY crew is back to talk about the crisis engulfing the world of progressives, which is to say, the crisis that crises are not causing ordinary people to become crisis-mongers. Call it “crisis fatigue.” Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Senor joins the podcast today to talk about the horrible inflation numbers and the meaning of Biden’s Mideast trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Then the podcast crew talks about the January 6 hearings. Give a listen. NOTE: We are off Thursday, July 14, Friday, July 15, and Monday, July 18. We’ll be back on Tuesday the 19th with more fun blather. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Today’s podcast features Matt Continetti and Jim Meigs talking about Jill Biden’s jaw-dropping gaffe in addressing a “LatinX IncluXion Luncheon” in Texas, Elon Musk’s strange Twitter behavior, and the astounding images of the universe being generated by the Webb Telescope. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast takes up a shocking New York Times poll that finds the president’s approval rating at a catastrophic 33 percent, with nearly two-thirds of Democrats wanting another candidate in 2024. And what’s this about the January 6 committee not bothering to ask Trump’s White House counsel what he might have said on that day? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Today’s podcast concerns the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe—and takes particular note of a shocking Associated Press piece about him and his death. Is there no decency left anywhere? Also, why the good jobs number is also bad. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peerless historian and political analyst Andrew Roberts joins the podcast today to give us the skinny on Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister of Great Britain—what occasioned it, what Johnson might do now, and who will succeed him. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the first time, we have two guests on the podcast—Eli Lake and Eliana Johnson—to talk about the strange emergence all at once of anti-Biden stories in the mainstream media and what they portend. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the publication day of Noah Rothman’s The Rise of the New Puritans, Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to discuss Noah’s book, the horrible massacre in Highland Park at the July 4th parade, and the troubling news out of Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court’s final day of a consequential term ended no less consequentially. Legal scholar Adam White joins the podcast once again to break down the Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency and its sweeping implications for the administrative state. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast ranges unusually from the coming release of the last hours of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things—and its welcome embrace of anti-Communism—to the expansion of NATO in the wake of the war in Ukraine and why Joe Biden can’t figure out how to take political advantage of the one thing he’s actually done well. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony before the January 6 committee contained many new details about Donald Trump’s conduct during the riots. Some of her claims have been disputed. Many others have not yet been even contested. But if the president’s allies don’t want her testimony to stand, someone close to him is going to have to testify. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Adam White, legal scholar extraordinaire, joins us to discuss the impact of the Dobbs abortion decision and why we should credit and take seriously the concurrences by Justices Roberts and Thomas—and what Clarence Thomas’s program as the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court actually is. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast features the return of Christine Rosen, who was set to be gone all summer but who has returned early due to popular demand—and helps the rest of us continue to come to grips with the Dobbs decision and how it might affect American society and our elections. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court has overturned the precedents in Roe and Casey and sent the issue of abortion back to the states to decide. What comes next? We haven’t the slightest idea. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast takes up the historic Supreme Court decision on guns today and asks what it might portend for the American political system in its wake. And we discuss Biden’s latest stupidity. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast explores the political ramifications of the gun legislation that seems to have had a bipartisan breakthrough in the Senate, and also considers the horrifying details laid out in yesterday’s hearing on the January 6 riot. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices