Commentary Magazine Podcast

On the first of this week's two COMMENTARY podcasts, we discuss the not-so-great debate and why and how Donald Trump did so poorly despite a good first ten minutes. It's gonna hurt, but it's not over and liberals better be careful about getting too comfortable. Give a listen.

Big news: The COMMENTARY podcast is going twice-weekly. In this, our second of the week, we delve into the question of who's really leading in the presidential race (it's a she) before sinking our teeth into the entire question of the value of debates, what happens in them, how the candidates try to play the refs, and whether everything that is going to happen is already baked in the cake. Give a listen.

The terror attacks this weekend in New York and St. Cloud, Minnesota have this in common with San Bernardino, Orlando, and Boston: They were the work of American citizens. On this podcast, Abe Greenwald, Noah Rothman, and I discuss the ramifications of this sobering fact and what it will mean going forward. We also ask whether Hillary Clinton's campaign can get any worse and whether Donald Trump can get any more irresponsible. Also, why is it that we're counseled to be prudent in discussing possible terrorism but are called names if we don't immediately judge a police shooting an act of racist murder? Give a listen.

In this week's podcast, we discuss the deplorable Hillary health scare and the scary "deplorables" remark made by Hillary. Was it a mistake or fiendishly clever? And why are Democrats and liberals feeling like the media are in the tank for Donald Trump and are giving Mrs. Clinton too rough a time? And we mark the publication of Nicholas Eberstadt's immensely important Men Without Work.

Description: On this week's podcast, Abe Greenwald and I survey the bad polling news for Hillary Clinton in the wake of the release of her FBI interview and what a race between two extremely unpopular people might mean in November. We wonder at Donald Trump's insistence on enlarging a military he does not wish to use, and wonder how he can reconcile all that with his promise to destroy ISIS. And we do not forget how the president was dissed in Asia. Give a listen.

In this week's COMMENTARY Podcast, Noah Rothman and Abe Greenberg join me (as usual) to dilate upon the outrageous cascade of new Hillary Clinton lies and the fact that the email scandal and the Clinton Foundation scandal have now become one and the same. It would be enough to warm the cockles of any conservative's heart, given its potential to up-end the results in November, were it not for the fact that Donald Trump isn't rising because of it but rather continues his decline. Why? You'll have to listen. Here.

With the announcement that Breitbart chief Steve Bannon will be taking on a senior role in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, any notion that this campaign has any interest in persuading a general electorate to vote for him should be dispelled. The Republican nominee’s campaign has embraced the creator of an elaborate fiction in which they are always winning and their fellow Republicans are traitors to the cause.

Well, the polls are in, and the word of the day at the Trump Tower Grill is "toast." The hearty band of COMMENTARY podcasters—Abe Greenwald, Noah Rothman, and I—essay how burnt the toast will be, from the White House to the Congress. And we hope you like it scorched because right now that's the way it looks like you're going to get it.

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In the latest COMMENTARY podcast, John Podhoretz regales Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald with tales from the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland which has been overshadowed by chaos and disunity at the Democratic National Convention. A party that looked unified has been cast into crisis by the WikiLeaks release of a variety of email communications from within the DNC. But the likely source of those emails, Russian intelligence, could give Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party a way out of their mess.

While John Podhoretz is in Cleveland, Abe Greenwald and Noah Rothman cover the goings on at the Republican National Convention in his absence. The GOP has formally nominated Donald Trump which, with rare exceptions, was not a smooth process. The result has been unnecessary bad blood and a joyless convention. Also, Melania’s strong speech marred by plagiarism accusations, and the how the Trump campaign turned a one-day story into a week-long scandal. Overall, everything is just fine in Cleveland. Don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

In the latest episode of the COMMENTARY Podcast, John Podhoretz, Noah Rothman, and Abe Greenwald examine the perception that America is in crisis, which conflicts with the data. Is the chaos associated with the 2016 election really the growing pains associated with 100-year cycles of technological and economic progress? If so, what are the best and most effective ways to mitigate that pervasive sense of unease?

0 shares A This week, John Podhoretz, Abe Greenwald, and Noah Rothman dig into FBI Director James Comey’s scathing rhetorical indictment of Hillary Clinton, which was bizarrely not followed up with an announcement to expect a real indictment. If only the Republicans had nominated a candidate who did not spend his time defending the virtue of Saddam Hussein and vaguely anti-Semitic social media posts.

In this week's podcast, Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald and I discuss the hysterical response to the British vote to leave the EU, how Hillary and Obama laid a trap for themselves by responding so oddly to the massacre in Benghazi, and how you really can't win an election if you're, you know, losing.

Today on the podcast, we discuss the lack of money, lack of poll strength and general lack of a path to victory enjoyed by Donald Trump. Sorry. We had nothing else to talk about. Have you talked about anything else?