The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

Nov 15 2024 191 ep. 64 mins 2.8k

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Anderson Cooper And Me On Grief

Nov 15 2024 65 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comAnderson doesn’t need an introduction, but he’s a broadcast journalist who has anchored Anderson Cooper 360° for more than two decades. He’s also a correspondent for 60 Minutes and the host of a podcast centered on grief, “All There Is.” He invited me on the pod after the death of my

Damon Linker On Trump's Historic Win

Nov 08 2024 47 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comDamon is a political writer with a must-read substack, Notes from the Middleground. He’s been the editor of First Things and a senior correspondent at The Week, and he’s the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test. Back when we were both at Newsweek / Daily Beast, he edited my essays,

Musa al-Gharbi On Elites And Wokeness

Nov 01 2024 44 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comMusa is a sociologist and writer. He’s an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His first book is We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. He also has a great substack, Symbolic Capital(ism).For two clips of ou

Sam Harris On The Trump Threat, Harris, Wokeness

Oct 25 2024 53 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comSam is a neuroscientist, philosopher, bestselling author, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up App. He’s also an old friend, jousting partner, meditation role model, and all round wonderful man. His recent work helped me reassess my views on the Gaza war. This week w

Tina Brown On Trump Panic, Media, Autism

Oct 18 2024 34 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comThe inimitable Tina Brown revived Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, before turning to the web and The Daily Beast (where I worked for her). She’s written three books, the latest of which we covered on the Dishcast a few years ago, The Palace Papers. This week she launched a substack, Fr

Walter Kirn On The Midwest, Walz, Trump

Oct 11 2024 42 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comWalter is a novelist, literary critic, and journalist. He’s written eight books, most famously Up in the Air, which became a film starring George Clooney. He’s now the editor-at-large for County Highway and co-hosts a weekly podcast with Matt Taibbi, “America This Week.” Way back in the

Wasik & Murphy On Animal Welfare

Oct 04 2024 51 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comBill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their first book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a bestseller, and they’re back with a new one: Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came t

David Frum On History And This Election

Sep 27 2024 45 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comDavid is an old friend, a long-time writer at The Atlantic, and a contributor to MSNBC. He’s the author of 10 books, including Trumpocalypse and Trumpocracy.For two clips of our convo — on the way Biden has empowered Trump, and the outlook that won the Cold War — pop over to our YouTube p

Michelle Goldberg On Harris And The Left

Sep 20 2024 42 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comMichelle is an opinion columnist at the New York Times, and before that she was a columnist for Slate. She has written three books: Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, The Means of Reproduction, and The Goddess Pose. She’s also an on-air contributor at MSNBC.For two clips of ou

Rod Dreher On Politics And Religious Awe

Sep 13 2024 60 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comRod is an old-school blogger and author living in Budapest. He’s a contributing editor at The American Conservative and has written several bestsellers, including The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies. His forthcoming book is Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age,