Episodes
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Catherine Conybeare On Augustine’s Life And Faith
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Catherine is a philologist with a particular focus on Augustine of Hippo. She’s both the Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College....
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Christopher Caldwell On The Rising Right In Europe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com My old friend Chris — the most intelligent, sane, and well-read conservative thinker writing in America today — returns to the Dishcast for his fourth appearance. He’s a senior fellow at the Claremont...
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Evan Barker On Wokeness Hijacking The Dems
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Evan is a former campaign fundraiser and political strategist for Democrats. She just published her first book, Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, which really blew me away. She’s also a...
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Michael Lewis On The Civil Servants Who Defied Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael is the best nonfiction writer in America — and another friend from the early TNR days. He’s the author of so many bestsellers, including Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Flash Boys. He…
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Emily Eakin On What Postmodernism Wrought
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Emily is a senior editor at the New York Times Book Review. She’s also worked as a senior editor at The New Yorker, an ideas reporter for the NYT, a fashion features writer at Vogue, and a deputy editor of...
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Jacob Weisberg On Trump’s Collaborators
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jake is a journalist and a dear old friend, starting in our early days as interns together at TNR. He’s the former longtime editor of Slate and the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries. He’s...
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Arianna Huffington On Living Well
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Arianna is a writer and businesswoman. She co-founded The Huffington Post in 2005, and after it was acquired by AOL, she became the president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. She’s...
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Azam Ahmed On The Aftermath Of 9/11
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Azam is an international investigative reporter for the New York Times. He used to be the Times bureau chief in Afghanistan, as well as Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He won a Pulitzer last year...
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Louise Perry On The Sexual Revolution (Re-Aired)
In our last summer-break podcast two-fer, we’re re-running two very different conversations on sex and race, with two very different characters: Louise Perry and Glenn Loury. Next Friday we’ll be back with fresh Dish as the new season of Dishness kicks off after Labor Day with some great guests...
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Glenn Loury On Being A Minority Within A Minority (Re-Aired)
In our last summer-break podcast two-fer, we’re re-running two very different conversations on sex and race, with two very different characters: Glenn Loury and Louise Perry. Next Friday we’ll be back with fresh Dish as the new season of Dishness kicks off after Labor Day with some great guests...
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Charles Murray On Human Diversity (Re-Aired)
(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) Charles is a writer, social scientist, and longtime friend. He currently holds the F.A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at AIE, and…
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Cornel West On God And The Great Thinkers (Re-Aired)
(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) The academic career of Cornel West is long and storied. He has taught religion, philosophy, and African-American studies at Yale, Princeton,...
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Buck Angel & Helena Kerschner On Trans And Detrans (Re-Aired)
(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) In addition to the Middle East, another topic that has generated a lot of heat on the Dish since 2020 is the issue of the gender revolution and...
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Yossi Klein Halevi On Zionism (Re-Aired)
(The full Dish returns on September 4. In the meantime, we are re-airing a handful of the most downloaded episodes from the early years of the Dishcast.) The Middle East has become one of the most contested topics here at the Dish. So on our summer break, we thought we’d run some classics…
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John O'Sullivan On Conservatism And Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (The full Dish is on vacation until Friday, September 4. This week’s episode was recorded on July 21.) John is a journalist and political commentator. He’s the founder and president of the Danube Institute,...
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Ross Barkan On The DSA And Mamdani
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ross is a journalist and novelist. He’s the editor-in-chief of The Metropolitan Review, and a columnist for the Nation and UnHerd. He’s the author of six books, including his new novel, Colossus. A new...
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Megan McArdle On DC Elites In A Failing Republic
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Megan is an old friend, a journalist, and an OG blogger — starting way back in 2001. We were bloggers at The Atlantic together, and she went on to write for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Bloomberg View.…
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Robby George On Natural Law And Christianity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Robert P. George is a legal scholar and political philosopher. At Princetown, he’s the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions....
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David Thomson On Cinema And America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a historian and perhaps the greatest living film critic. He’s the author of more than 20 books, including biographies of David O. Selznick and Orson Welles, and The New Biographical Dictionary of...
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Stephen Grosz On Love And Psychoanalysis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Stephen is a psychoanalyst and author. He used to teach clinical technique at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and also psychoanalytic theory at University College London. He’s the author of The Examined…
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John Gray On Trump's New World Disorder
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John is a political philosopher. He retired from academia in 2007 as Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, and he’s now a regular contributor and lead reviewer at the New…
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Robert Wright On AI And Evolution
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bob is a journalist and the author of many books, including The Moral Animal, Nonzero, The Evolution of God, and Why Buddhism Is True. He’s written for countless magazines, including The New Republic, where…
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Tiffany Jenkins On Privacy And Liberalism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tiffany is a cultural historian, writer, and broadcaster. She has been a critic and presenter on BBC Radio 4 and now serves as a trustee of the British Museum. Her latest book is Strangers and Intimates: The...
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Daniel McCarthy On Trump And Conservatism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Daniel, previously the editor-at-large at The American Conservative, is currently the editor of Modern Age, a conservative academic quarterly journal. He’s also a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought...
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Ben Rhodes On Iran, Israel, And America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ben is a writer and political adviser. He served as a deputy national security advisor and speechwriter to Obama for both terms. He’s currently a co-host of “Pod Save the World,” a contributing opinion…
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HW Brands On George Washington And Power
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bill is a historian. He currently teaches at the University of Texas, where he holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History. He’s the author of more than 30 books, including The First American and Traitor…
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Harvey Mansfield On Machiavelli And Modernity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Harvey is a political philosopher. He’s been on the faculty at Harvard since 1962, and he’s currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government. His 13 books include Taming the Prince, Manliness, and...
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Jerusalem Demsas On Liberalism And The Dems
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jerusalem is a journalist and entrepreneur. She’s a former staff writer at The Atlantic and a former policy writer and podcaster at Vox. Last year she founded The Argument, a liberal magazine on Substack,...
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Adrian Wooldridge On Liberalism's Genius
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Adrian is a journalist and an old friend. We arrived in America on the same plane in 1984 and spent the first few days together in the same hotel room. After more than 20 years writing for The Economist, he...
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Tom Junod On Masculinity And His Dad
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tom is a journalist and author. A former staff writer at GQ and Esquire, the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was based on his Esquire article on Fred Rogers. He’s currently a senior writer at ESPN,...
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Greg Lukianoff On Free Speech Fights
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Greg is a lawyer, journalist, and author. He’s the president of FIRE — the best free-speech group out there. His books include The Coddling of the American Mind (written with Jonathan Haidt), The Canceling…
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Jeffrey Toobin On The Pardon Power
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jeff is a lawyer and a contributing opinion writer for the NYT, after a long run at The New Yorker and CNN. He has written many bestselling books, including True Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Oath, The Nine,...
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Derek Thompson On Meaning In Our Web World
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Derek Thompson is a long-time writer at The Atlantic. His books include Hit Makers, On Work, and Abundance, which he co-wrote with Ezra Klein. Derek also has an excellent substack and hosts a podcast called...
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Tom Holland On Our Christian World
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tom is a historian, translator, and podcaster. He hosts with Dominic Sandbrook the most downloaded history pod in the world, “The Rest Is History.” He’s the author of many books, including the two we…
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Jonah Goldberg On Conservatism, Blogging, Dogs
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jonah is a journalist, author, and podcaster. He spent two decades at National Review before joining The Dispatch, where he writes the G-File and hosts the Remnant podcast. He’s also a columnist for the LA...
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Matt Goodwin On The Earthquake In UK Politics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Matt is an author, pollster, campaigner, and policy advisor. He recently ran for Parliament as a Reform candidate and came in second. He’s also a presenter at GB News and a writer on Substack. He’s the…
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Eli Lake On Israel And The Iran War
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Eli is a journalist and an old friend. He’s a former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and a former columnist for the Bloomberg View. He’s now a reporter for The Free...
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Kathryn Paige Harden On Genes And Morality
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Paige is a scientist and writer. She’s a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and serves as Director of Clinical Training....
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Michael Pollan On The Mystery Of Consciousness
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael is quite simply one of the best nonfiction writers out the planet: a real role model. He’s been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, and he’s the bestselling author of…
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Sally Quinn On Bezos, Washington, And Life
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sally is a journalist, columnist, TV commentator, author, wife to Ben Bradlee, and legendary DC hostess. Who better to talk to about the implosion of The Washington Post? She also founded the Post’s religion...
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Zaid Jilani On How The Dems Can Win
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Zaid is a young center-left journalist (after the young center-right journo we had on last week, Jason Willick). Zaid worked as a reporter for The Intercept and as a reporter-blogger for ThinkProgress…
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Jason Willick On The Courts Under Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jason is a columnist at the Washington Post who writes about law, politics, and foreign policy. He used to be an editorial writer and assistant editorial features editor for the Wall Street Journal, and…
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Jonathan Rauch On The F-Word
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jon and I go way back to the early days of the marriage movement and before. He’s currently a senior fellow at Brookings and a contributor editor at The Atlantic. He’s written many landmark books, including...
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Kevin Williamson On The Perils Of Populism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Kevin spent 15 years as a writer and reporter for National Review, worked as a theater critic at The New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He’s currently the national correspondent at The...
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Charlie Sykes On The Mob-Boss Presidency
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Charlie is a journalist and podcaster. From 1993 to 2016, he hosted a conservative talk show on WTMJ in Milwaukee. He was also the editor of Right Wisconsin, the editor-in-chief of The Bulwark, and a...
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Claire Berlinski On Trump's Global Wreckage
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Claire is an American novelist, essayist, and journalist living in Paris. She’s the editor-in-chief of The Cosmopolitan Globalist — subscribe! — and the author of many books, including There Is No…
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Laura Field On Trump's Intellectuals
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Laura Field is a writer and political theorist who specializes in far-right populist intellectualism in the US. She’s currently a Scholar in Residence at American University, a Senior Advisor for the...
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Arthur Brooks On How To Be Happy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Arthur is an academic and writer. The former president of the American Enterprise Institute, he’s a professor at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School, where he teaches courses on leadership and...
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Simon Rogoff On Narcissism And Power
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Simon is a clinical psychologist who writes about the connections between “Narcissism, Trauma, Fame, and Power” — the name of his substack. He has over 20 years experience in the field of treatment of...
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Shadi Hamid On US Power And The New NSS
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Shadi is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He runs a substack with Damir Marusic called Wisdom of Crowds, and his new book…
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