The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Matt Continetti is back to discuss Graham Platner suspending his campaign with an angry 11-minute video diatribe, and whether his cratering poll numbers played a part in democrats' willingness to cut him loose. Plus, Iran's overreach leads to a resumption of hostilities in the region, Rahm Emmanuel's hallucinatory speech in Israel and the upcoming Israeli elections, and Matt recommends Richard Brookhiser's The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution.
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John is joined by author Nicholas Lemann to discuss his new memoir Returning and the story of the American Jewish immigrant family.
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Today we discuss the latest explosive allegations against Graham Platner, leading to a string of endorsement withdrawals and a likely withdrawal from the Maine senate race, and how the New York Times tried to bury serious charges against Platner in their June story.
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We are back to discuss the July 4th weekend and the Great America Fair, the upcoming democratic primary election in Michigan between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, the new Free Beacon poll on republican primary voters, and The NYT editorial on standardized testing for college admissions.
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John is joined by Professor Ruth Wisse for a discussion on her book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews, the challenges Jews face in an era of converging hatreds, and the need for American Jews to leverage their position in society for their own self-defense.
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