Via the magic of the amazing podcast platform riverside.fm, I sat down with my old friend Andrew Sullivan last week to discuss 1968, the Great Realignment, Gary Wills, Kevin Phillips, the politics of immigration, the Biden/Trump “mental capacity” story, the news media’s self-inflicted wounds, News Items, among other things.
The result is this edition of his weekly podcast (“The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan”).
You can listen to “The Dishcast” on all of the major platforms. Here are links to “the Big Three”:
If you don’t subscribe to Andrew’s newsletter, I encourage you to do so. It is superb; beautifully written and razor sharp.
P.S.: The Weekend Edition of News Items is now distributed on SUNDAYS, not Saturdays.
P.P.S.: Richard Haass and I podcasted earlier this week. Liner notes:
In Episode #3 of "Alternate Shots", John and Richard discuss five "stories" much in the news of late: (1) the active/passive Trump presidency, (2) the local election results from Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's largest state, (3) The murder of Charlie Kirk and the globalization of MAGA politics, (4) Charlie Kirk and the "youth vote" in the 2024 election, and (5) RFK Jr. vs. Big Pharma. John thinks and Richard suspects that Big Pharma will emerge victorious. Finally, Richard finds a silver lining (or two) in Sunday's crushing defeat of the New York Giants by the Dallas Cowboys.
(Links to the major platforms: APPLE, AMAZON, SPOTIFY, and iHEART.)
P.P.P.S.: Kamala Harris’ book is one that very few people will rush out to buy, but it does contain one astonishing anecdote. This from Politico:
Moments before a make-or-break debate with Donald Trump, Kamala Harris got an unexpected phone call: It was a peeved President Joe Biden, demanding to know why she had been bad-mouthing him to donors.
The call left Harris rattled at a critical moment in her abbreviated campaign and highlighted her at-times strained relationship with her boss, the former vice president writes in a new memoir released Thursday.
“My head had to be right. I had to be completely in the game,” she recalled. “I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself.” (Source: politico.com)