P.J. O'Rourke Is Our Guest!
The COMMENTARY gang welcomes P.J. O'Rourke, first-time magazine contributor with his wonderful and acid piece "Shamalot" in our December issue, to the podcast to talk about JFK, Chinese spies, and Bid...
8 Dec 202058min
The Torment of Lockdowns
Andrew Ferguson joins the podcast today to discuss lockdown culture and what it's doing to small businesses, what's behind the idea that the election was "stolen" from Donald Trump, and why the story ...
7 Dec 20201h 18min
You Had to Be a Big Shot, Didn't You
Will we split into a vaccinated/non-vaccinated society next year? That's the key subject of today's podcast, along with conspiracy theories, that old favorite. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad ...
4 Dec 20201h 5min
Are They Trying to Lose Georgia?
Today's podcast takes up the bizarre situation in the Senate runoffs in Georgia and the developing fights inside the Democratic party pitting actually popular national political figures (like Barack O...
3 Dec 20201h 7min
Biden Condescends
What did the president-elect mean when he invoked treating Trump voters with "dignity" in an interview? And how desperate is he to go back into the Iran nuclear deal? All this, plus pardons and some r...
2 Dec 20201h 4min
The Elite Thinks It Knows Best
Today's podcast takes up elite condescension—in advice on how to use words to convince people to be more responsible pandemic citizens and on the credentialism that limits social mobility and privileg...
1 Dec 20201h 8min
Emergencies Aren't Supposed to Last Forever
Today's podcast takes up the Supreme Court's ruling on religious shutdowns, the COVID spike that doesn't quite seem as horrendous as the conventional wisdom says, and the crocodile tears being shed ov...
30 Nov 202059min
Whom Can We Trust? We Can Trust You.
Today's pre-Thanksgiving podcast concludes with our heartfelt expressions of gratitude for family, friends, co-workers... and our readers and listeners. Before that, we take up new CDC guidance on qua...
25 Nov 202056min
