The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Jan 24 2025 1086 ep. 65 mins 3.1k

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Commentary is America's premier monthly magazine of opinion: General, yet Jewish. Highly variegated, with a unifying perspective.

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Why Is Trump Still Holding Rallies?

Jan 24 2025 73 mins

Chris Stirewalt joins the podcast today to discuss Donald Trump's efforts to dominate the news and whether they are simply his way or a canny strategy to advance his interests. And we talk about the revelatory conversation between two reporters about how Politico killed stories that might have been injurious to Joe Biden's chances in 2020. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad

The Trump Immigration Fire Hose

Jan 23 2025 70 mins

The shocked impotence with which liberals and Democrats have greeted the aggressive Trump moves on immigration is the key subject of today's discussion, along with efforts in the Senate to delay, pointlessly, Trump's cabinet nominees. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Good, the Bad, and the Trumpy

Jan 22 2025 67 mins

Day Three is the same as Days 1 and 2—actions that are revolutionary in a good way and actions that are disturbing or actively bad. Which ones? Why? We break it down. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You Gotta Take the Good with the Bad

Jan 21 2025 75 mins

Eli Lake joins the podcast today to talk about the flurry of Trump activity on Day 1 of his administration and the two disgraceful sets of pardons, Trump's and Biden's. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-President Trump

Jan 20 2025 80 mins

We lied! We said there would be no podcast today but we just couldn't stay away. Too much news. The inaugural, the pardons, and the hostage deal. So give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hostages, Trump's Vision, and Schumer

Jan 17 2025 69 mins

The deal having been struck, the hostage question now goes to which hostages emerge first and in what condition and what this will do to the Israeli people. As Trump prepares for his second inaugural, what is his moral framework going to be, if there will be any? And what is this nonsense Chuck Schumer is telling the New York Times about how brave he was to tell Joe Biden not to ru

BidenGPT and More on the Deal

Jan 16 2025 60 mins

Dan Senor joins us today as we review the Biden farewell address and try to make sense out of the ceasefire-hostage deal. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wrath of Rothman

Jan 15 2025 78 mins

Noah Rothman joins us today to discuss his landmark piece in the February issue of COMMENTARY, "A Clockwork Blue." But first we talk about the hostage deal and the Democratic failure to "get" Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bad Deal

Jan 14 2025 75 mins

The details of the ceasefire/hostage negotiations in Doha between Israel and Hamas are not viewed favorably on today's podcast, to put it mildly, and suggest there may be danger ahead when it comes to the Trump administration and what it's willing to do to claim successes. And we also view unfavorably Jack Smith's report on how, yeah, he woulda gotten Trump convicted if it weren't

Progressive Failures, Media Failures

Jan 13 2025 66 mins

The ongoing disaster in California has exposed the failures of the dominant ideology of the American left just as the moment that its transmission vector, the mainstream media, is going the way of the dodo. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices