Commentary Magazine Podcast

On this week's second podcast, the COMMENTARY crew takes on the bad choices in North Korea and—gasp—offers a defense of Donald Trump against his knee-jerk critics on the matter. After that, we wonder at the ongoing insistence by fans of Trump that the conservatives and Republicans critical of him should and must bend the knee to the president or be complicit in the ruination of the country. Give a listen.

On the first of our week's podcasts, Abe Greenwald and Noah Rothman debate the millennial generation in response to my question about whether millennials are as bad as people say (Noah being one). And then things get wild and philosophical on the question of technological advance and the changes in human destiny before we return to White House feuds. Give a listen.

On the second COMMENTARY podcast of the week, Abe Greenwald tells us about new legislation on immigration and what its larger meaning and political effect might be; Noah Rothman discourses on a new Justice Department investigation into unfairness in college admissions; and I just talk and and talk and talk. Give a listen.

On this week's first podcast, the very popular Abe Greenwald (winner of a Twitter poll you'll hear about) joins me and Noah Rothman to discuss whether Donald Trump's political losses over the past week and the chaos at the White House portend a presidency ideologically dissimilar but procedurally akin to Jimmy Carter's. Give a listen.

On the second of this week's podcasts, I get into it with Noah Rothman on whether the president's behavior toward his attorney general and the new White House communications director's conduct toward the White House chief of staff constitute a "plan" of action or whether we are just living through nihilistic chaos. Where does Abe Greenwald come out? You'll have to give a listen.

On the first of this week's COMMENTARY podcasts, Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald join me to sort through—and we do it systematically, which is a first for us—what is going on with the Russia investigation and how it divides into three categories. There's the question of the probe itself, there's the question of collusion, and there's the question of obstruction of justice. It's really good. I mean it. Give a listen.

On the second of this week's podcasts, I ask Abe Greenwald and Noah Rothman whether the health-care debacle this week is simply a reflection of the same pressures on the conservative coalition Donald Trump saw and conquered by running for president last year—and what it will mean for him and them that he has provided no rallying point for Republican politicians. And then we discuss OJ Simpson. Give a listen.

The first COMMENTARY podcast of the week finds me, Abe Greenwald, and Noah Rothman wondering what a poll showing the president with 36 percent support could mean when he won the presidency with a 65 percent disapproval rating. Have the rules of American politics changed? And how does this relate to Season 7 of "Game of Thrones"? Promise: No spoilers! Give a listen.

On the second of this week's podcasts, the COMMENTARY crew (Abe Greenwald, Noah Rothman, and I) takes up the new Senate health-care bill and its wildly generous spending on the opioid epidemic—which is problematic because there is very little in the way of good treatment when it comes to this kind of addiction. And we continue to analyze the question of whether, or why, or even how Republicans are supposed to react to the idea that the president's son was openly enthusiastic about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. Give a listen.

In the first of this week's COMMENTARY podcasts, we go through the series of bombshell revelations this weekend about the heretofore undisclosed 2016 meeting between Donald Trump's son, son-in-law, and campaign manager with a Russian lawyer that evidently began with promises of Kremlin information about Hillary Clinton. Noah Rothman thinks this could be curtains for Trump. I say wanting to collude and colluding are two different things. Abe Greenwald says we're both right. Then we take up Trump's Poland speech and its defense of Western Civ and the moral idiocy of those attacking him for doing so. Give a listen.

On this week's only podcast, COMMENTARY's Abe Greenwald and Noah Rothman join me to discuss the unholy choices posed by the North Korea ICBM test and wonder at the fact that the world of political commentary is far more concerned with a CNN story about an anonymous guy posting little films on the Internet than this world-shaking threat. Give a listen.

On the second of this week's podcasts, the COMMENTARY crew is scattered far afield—I'm in Vegas, baby; Noah Rothman is at home in Jersey; and Abe Greenwald is in our offices in New York. Perhaps our distance accounts for a greater degree of disagreement and even disgruntlement as we consider the meaning of the Trump war on the media and its convenient crescendo during a moment in which it looks like the GOP hopes of scoring a health-care reform are in the process of crashing and burning. Give a listen.

On the first podcast of the week, we (that is, Abe Greenwald, Noah Rothman, and I) look at the Supreme Court's decision to allow parts of the Trump travel ban to go through and the possibility of the passage of the health care bill in the Senate. And we ask: Does this mean that next week we'll be saying the Trump administration has scored victories and is now far more formidable than it has thus far appeared? Also, I quote a medieval English song to the mystification of Noah and Abe. Give a listen.

We're podcasting a day early here at COMMENTARY in order to take the measure of the result in the Georgia special House election. Abe Greenwald, Noah Rothman, and I posit seven possible theories to explain what happened—and then we attack the theories! It's positively Talmudic. Give a listen.

On this week's first COMMENTARY podcast, Abe Greenwald and I say yes and Noah Rothman says no. Noah makes a valiant effort at being sensible but I'm not sure he prevails over my and Abe's hysteria. Give a listen.