The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Is Trump losing the thread as we head into 2026? And what's this—secular saint Oliver Sack... more

With the boarding and seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, the United States's confrontatio... more

Eli Lake joins us for a conversation that begins with Christmas music and ends with man's ... more

Today's podcast tries to make sense out of the incoherent Trump administration posture tow... more

A full house today takes up Pete Hegseth's speech on American defense and the national sec... more

Enough with the pomposity about gerrymandering—each party does it and the other one has a ... more

Is Pete Hegseth really in more trouble than he was last week? You'd think that from the ne... more

Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute joins us as we examine the results of the special ele... more

Today we take up the New York Times and its implicit takedown of the Washington Post story... more

Did the U.S. military commit a war crime with a strike on a suspected drug boat in the Car... more

In this special post-Thanksgiving episode, I ask COMMENTARY's editor about everything from... more

Today we try to parse the game behind Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff coaching his Russian ... more

Adam White joins the podcast today to discuss the latest developments in the legal controv... more

Jonathan Schanzer joins today to discuss the torrent of developments from Gaza to Ukraine,... more

Today's podcast takes up Zohran Mamdani's spokesman's appalling declaration that a meeting... more

As a genocidal protest breaks out in front of an Orthodox synagogue in New York City, else... more

We talk about the remarkable new relationship developing between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia... more

James B. Meigs joins us to talk about how scared, or not, we should be by AI. Also: What g... more

James Kirchick joins the podcast to discuss his new COMMENTARY article, " [Neither America... more

Today's podcast notes eerily similar stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post... more

With the shutdown over, it's time to ask the question: What do Democrats actually want? We... more

Late-breaking news of communications relating to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump provide ... more

Today's podcast begins with continuing fallout from the end of the shutdown before moving ... more

The government shutdown appears to be reaching its end, and that's because eight non-Democ... more

The freakout online at the suggestion that maybe Gentiles working at the Heritage Foundati... more

Christine Rosen, Eli Lake, and I talk about the drama of yesterday's Heritage Foundation m... more

In yesterday's elections, the Republicans took what John calls both a thumping and a shell... more

California, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City all have potentially game-changing ele... more

We welcome Eliana Johnson to the podcast as our new daily colleague following the departur... more