The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ed is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Before that, he was the FT’s Washington Bureau chief, the South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines correspondent. During the Clinton administration, he was the speechwriter for Larry Summers. The author of many books, h...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (It’s the July 4th holiday. The full Dish — including my weekly column and the window contest — will return next Friday. Happy Independence Day!) Walter is the Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values at Tulane. He’s the former CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Paul is a writer, an editor, and an old friend. He’s a regular contributor to The New Yorker and a senior fellow in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He’s the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach , and his new book is The Last Supper : Art, Faith,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Batya is a journalist and author. She’s a columnist for The Free Press, a co-host of The Group Chat on 2Way, and the author of two books: Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy , and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women . Her forthcoming book is about, as she puts i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Chris is a TV broadcaster and author. During his political career, he was a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and the chief of staff for House Speaker Tip O’Neill. In journalism, Chris was a columnist with the San Francisco Examiner and then the Chronicle, the host of “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” and the host...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Robert is a journalist and historian. He served as president and editor-in-chief of Congressional Quarterly, the editor of The National Interest, and the editor of The American Conservative, and he covered Washington as a reporter for the WSJ for more than a decade. He has written many history books, includin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jake Tapper is the lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN, whose books include The Outpost , The Hellfire Club , and The Devil May Dance . Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and a political analyst for CNN. They just published Original Sin : President Biden’s Decl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sam is a biographer, historian, and journalist. He used to be the editor of the New York Times Book Review, a features writer for Vanity Fair, and a writer for Prospect magazine. He’s currently a contributing writer for the Washington Post. His many books include The Death of Conservatism and Whittaker Chambe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David Graham is a political journalist. He’s a long-time staff writer at The Atlantic and one of the authors of the Atlantic Daily newsletter. His new book is The Project : How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America . We go through the agenda and hash out the good and the bad. For two clips of our convo — on wheth...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com C laire Lehmann is a journalist and publisher. In 2015, after leaving academia, she founded the online magazine Quillette, where she is still editor-in-chief. She’s also a newspaper columnist for The Australian. For two clips of our convo — on how journalists shouldn’t be too friendly with one another, and ho...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Byron is a political journalist. He was a news producer for CNN in the early years, a reporter for The American Spectator, and the White House correspondent for National Review. He’s currently the chief political correspondent for Washington Examiner and a contributor to Fox News. His most recent book is the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Frances Lee is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton, and her books include The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Age . Steve Macedo —an old friend from Harvard — is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Francis is a physician and geneticist whose work has led to the discovery of the cause of cystic fibrosis, among other diseases. In 1993 he was appointed director of the Human Genome Project, which successfully sequenced all three billion letters of our DNA. He went on to serve three presidents as the directo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Evan is an attorney and gay rights pioneer. He founded and led Freedom to Marry — the campaign to win marriage until victory at the Supreme Court in 2015, after which he then wound down the organization. During those days he wrote the book Why Marriage Matters : America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Ma...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Douglas is a writer and commentator. He’s an associate editor at The Spectator and a columnist for both the New York Post and The Sun, as well as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His books include The Madness of Crowds and The War on the West , which we discussed on the Dishcast three years ago . H...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nick is an entrepreneur and journalist. He was the founder of Gawker Media, the publisher of Gizmodo, and the editor of Valleywag. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times — as a derivatives and tech correspondent — and later founded a Silicon Valley news aggregator called Moreover Technol...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mike White is a writer, director, and actor. Among his many films, he wrote and starred in Chuck & Buck and wrote the screenplay for School of Rock . In television, he co-created and starred in Enlightened , and he’s the brilliant auteur of The White Lotus, currently in its third season. In reality TV, he com...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael Lewis is the best nonfiction writer in America — and an old friend. He’s the bestselling author of 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 his new book is Who Is Government? The Untold Story o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ian is a historian, a journalist, and an old friend. He’s currently the Paul Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He served as the editor of The New York Review of Books and as foreign editor of The Spectator, where he still writes. He has written many books, including Theater of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Chris — an old friend and, in my view, one of the sharpest right-of-center writers in journalism — returns to the Dishcast for his third 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 a member of the e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Yoni is a journalist and academic. He used to be a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard, and also taught at Babson College and Brandeis. He subsequently served in many editorial and writing roles at The Atlantic, where he’s currently a deputy executive editor. He just published his first book, Stuck...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jon and I go way back to the early days of the marriage movement. He’s currently a senior fellow at Brookings and a contributor editor at The Atlantic. He’s the author of many books, including Kindly Inquisitors , The Happiness Curve, and The Constitution of Knowledge — which we discussed on the Dishcast in 2...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ross is a writer and a dear old colleague, back when we were both bloggers at The Atlantic. Since then he’s been a columnist at the New York Times — and, in my mind, he’s the best columnist in the country. The author of many books, including Grand New Party and The Decadent Society , his new one is Believe: W...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sebastian is an author, journalist, and war correspondent. He’s been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, and his debut documentary, Restrepo , was nominated for an Oscar. He’s the author of many bestsellers, including The Perfect Storm , War , Tribe , and Freedom . Hi...

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