The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Joe is a journalist, author, old-school blogger, and an old friend. He’s written seven books, most famously Primary Colors , and he was a longtime columnist for Time magazine. This year he launched a must-read substack called “ Sanity Clause ,” and he just started a podcast with the great John Ellis called “W...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a journalist and columnist. He writes the NYT’s flagship daily newsletter, “The Morning,” contributes to the paper’s Sunday Review section, and co-hosts “The Argument,” a weekly opinion podcast with Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg. In 2011 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on economic questio...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cat is a researcher who focuses on the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, and other publications. Her fascinating new book is Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution , and I highly recommend it. F...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (The main Dish and VFYW contest are taking a break for the holiday; we’ll be back with full coverage on December 1st. Happy Thanksgiving!) Matthew is a writer and philosopher. He’s currently a senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a contributing editor at The New Atlantis . His...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John Judis is an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior editor at The New Republic, and an old friend. Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing columnist at the WaPo, and politics editor of the fantastic substack The Liberal Patriot . In...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Graeme is a foreign correspondent, and one of the most brilliant men I’ve ever met. He’s been a staff writer at The Atlantic since 2006 and a lecturer in political science at Yale since 2014. He’s also been a contributing editor to The New Republic and books editor of Pacific Standard, and he’s the author of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Pamela is a journalist. For nine years she was the editor of The New York Times Book Review, where she also hosted a weekly podcast, and she’s now a columnist for the Opinion section of the Times where she writes about culture, ideas, society, language and politics. She’s the author of eight books, most recen...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a long-time columnist for the New York Times. He’s also a commentator on “PBS NewsHour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Plus he teaches at Yale. His new book is How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen . You can listen to the episode right...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Spencer is a writer and podcaster. He’s currently an associate editor at the Claremont Review of Books and the host of the “Young Heretics” podcast. He’s also the author of How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises and the editor of  Gateway to the Stoics . You can follow his latest writing on...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Martha is a philosopher and legal thinker. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, Oxford and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School. Her many books include The Fragility of Goodness , Se...

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, and he served as foreign editor of The Spectator and (briefly) as the editor of The   New York Review of Books . He has written many books, including Murder in Amster...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Leor is a writer and researcher. He’s currently a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a frequent contributor to City Journal, particularly on issues of gender identity and public policy. For two clips of our convo — on the sudden skyrocketing of girls seeking transition, and how the medicalizing of trans ki...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Vivek is an entrepreneur and a Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential race. He founded a biotech company, Roivant Sciences, after working as an investment partner at a hedge fund. He’s also the author of  Woke, Inc. and Nation of Victims . I’ll get ahead of you guys and confess that I liked him in our...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Freddie is a writer and academic. He’s been a prolific freelancer at publications such as the NYT, the WaPo, Harper’s, The Guardian, Politico, and The Daily Dish . His first book was The Cult of Smart (reviewed on the Dish as “ Bell Curve leftism ”), and his new book is  How Elites Ate the Social Justice Move...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sohrab is a founder and editor of Compact: A Radical American Journal , and he’s a contributing editor at The American Conservative. He spent nearly a decade at News Corp. — as the op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the WSJ opinion pages in New York and London. His first appe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Moynihan is one-third of The Fifth Column — the sharp, hilarious podcast he does with Kmele Foster and Matt Welch. He was previously the cultural news editor for The Daily Beast, a senior editor at Reason, and a correspondent and managing editor of Vice. It’s a fun summer chat with an old friend. We recorded...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Josh is an old friend, and a business and political journalist. He has worked for Business Insider, the NYT, and New York magazine. He currently runs his own substack called Very Serious , and he cohosts a legal podcast called Serious Trouble , also on Substack. We talk Biden — Josh’s political hero. You can...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Lee is an investigative journalist. He was a long-time reporter at The Intercept, and in late 2022 he was one of the recipients of the Twitter Files. He left the MSM this year to launch his own substack at leefang.com . You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Matt is a political journalist. He’s been a senior contributor for The Daily Caller and a columnist for AOL’s Politics Daily, and he’s currently a senior columnist at The Daily Beast. He also hosts his own podcast and YouTube show, “Matt Lewis & The News." In this episode we discuss his new book, Filthy Rich...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jean Twenge is a writer and researcher who focuses on generational differences. She’s a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the author of seven books, most notably iGen . Her new one is Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents . Our conversat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Dave is a political reporter. He’s worked for The Washington Post, Slate, Bloomberg Politics, and he’s currently at Semafor. He’s also a contributing editor at Reason. In 2017 he wrote a book called  The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, and he’s also a Daily Dish alum . For two clips of o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Erick is a radio host and writer. He was an old-school blogger at RedState, serving as editor-in-chief, and he later became a political contributor for CNN and Fox News. Today he hosts the “Erick Erickson Show” on WSB Radio in Atlanta and runs a popular substack of the same name. He’s also in Reformed Theolog...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Dr. Tabia Lee is an educator and consultant. She was the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza College until she was fired for her heterodox views on DEI. (Her GoFundMe is here .) She’s also a cofounder of Free Black Thought. For two clips of our con...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is an extraordinary investigative reporter, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, and an old acquaintance. Several of his stories and books have been adapted into major motion pictures, including  The Lost City of Z , Old Man and the Gun , and  Killers of the Flower Moon . His new book is The Wage...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Deneen is a writer and academic. Based at the University of Notre Dame, he is Professor of Political Science and holds the David Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies. His books include The Odyssey of Political Theory and Why Liberalism Failed , and his new one is Regime Change: Toward a...