Popular Reviews of The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Always good, civil intelligent discussions with a center-right perspective. My go-to political podcast.

I wanted to like this podcast. It is current, intelligent, and thoughtful. But, the hosts spend a lot of time bashing liberals (literally calling them "crazy" in every episode, implying that they are stupid, etc). I am interested in debate about the issues, but name-calling is not that. Also, the tone of this podcast is abjectly morose. Condescending and morose. I stuck with it for about a year because it is hard to find a good conservative-leaning political podcast, but in the end this one is impossible to listen to without damaging your phone by throwing it at a wall. Not recommended.

I used to love this podcast. Now I hardly ever listen because John Podhoretz drives me crazy. He rambles on and on and hogs all the time. I'd MUCH prefer to listen to Christine, Noah, and Abe. Usually, when Podhoretz is rambling on, I fast forward. But alas, I land, minutes on, on another Podhoretz ramble. When he starts making analogies to movies from long ago, I switch to another podcast. A shame, because it used to be great.

One of my favorite podcasts. I listen to it daily (and miss it on the weekends).