Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. During the pandemic, he led ground breaking research on the virus and later, on the vaccine.

In the earliest days of the pandemic, Dr. Bhattacharya conducted a groundbreaking study of Covid seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California. His team discovered that the virus had already spread beyond any current estimate, and that attempts to eliminate the virus—the famous “Covid Zero” policy—were doomed to fail. As he describes it in our far-ranging series of discussions and interviews, by March 2020 we know that Covid was a “tidal wave.”

“We’re all going to get wet. But we’re not all going to get sick.”

Thus began a series of barrages of personal and professional attacks on Dr. Bhattacharya by the public health ...

David Adler is an economist and author interested in finding ways to revive and strengthen American national developmentalism.

He is also the producer of several public policy documentaries for the BBC and PBS including Mind Over Money (NOVA/WGBH) about behavioral finance, as well as America’s Crisis in Healthcare and Retirement.

In this lively—and unexpectedly witty—8 episode dive into America’s industrial and technology future, and its rapidly deteriorating competitive relationship to China, David Adler gives us a compelling tour d’horizon of the state of play between the world’s two superpowers, and he investigates what went wrong (a lot), what went right (not so much), and what we can do about it.

Each episode kicks off with a specific American capitulation—what Adler calls the “China Suck Up Watch”—in whi...

A senior writer and podcaster at National Review, Charles C.W. Cooke is also one of the country’s foremost experts on gun law, gun policy, and the Second Amendment: topics he has written about regularly for over ten years.

In this audio documentary, Cooke will look closely at the most controversial and discussed portion of the U.S. Constitution. What did The Founders mean by a “well armed militia” and “the right to bear arms”? Did they foresee the rapid advance in gun technology or is the 2nd Amendment a relic of the 18th Century, applying only to the firearms that were available at the time it was written?

Cooke, a native of Great Britain and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, was an anti-gun student at Oxford. In 2007 while listening to Freakonomics at Reykjavik Airport in Iceland, he heard a reference to the (execrable) majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford, which argued, inter alia, that if blacks could become citizens, they’d start carrying arms. “But how could that be possible,” Cooke wondered, “if the Second Amendment didn’t protect an individual right, and if there was no widespread culture of private gun ownership?”

Cooke returned to Oxford and changed the topic of his thesis from the nature of FDR’s work on the New Deal to ...

Matthew Continetti started his career as Rich Lowry’s research assistant at National Review. Since then, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times. He served as an Associate Editor of The Weekly Standard and was the founding editor of The Washington Free Beacon. He’s currently a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a regular on The Commentary Podcast.

Matthew Continetti’s voluminous history of Conservatism in America over the past 100 years is The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, which was published in 2022 and was immediately hailed as the definitive historical document of the movement and (until recent events), the Republican Party. The book is a sweeping account of movement conservatism’s evolution, from the Progressive Era through the present.

In an 8 episode series, Continetti will expand on his book, and focus his lens on the next phase of American conservatism. Continetti will tell the story of how conservatism began as networks of intellectuals, developing and institutionalizing a vision that grew over time, only to see their creation buckle under new pressures from national populist movements. He’ll investigate the players and issues of today’s conservative movement, and explain how the American conservative community is, currently, a dysfunctional family in crisis.

An 8 episode series that takes specific moments from the Gospels—the words and actions of Jesus—and guides a conversation among very different kinds of Christians as they discuss what Jesus meant, and what it means for us. Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Progressive Christians, Roman Catholics – it will be a guided and edited conversation that closely examines one moment per episode. The result will be a lively (and, we hope, optimistic) look at the words of Jesus Christ, seen by very different religious thinkers. Host TBD.

A 5–8 episode series that begins with war stories told by former American service personnel, about their on-the-ground experiences in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Niger, South Korea, and Western Europe. From those compelling (and sometimes profane, and often mordantly funny) stories, we zoom out a level and ask strategists,policymakers, and politicians the key questions: What were we doing there? What were our aims? Why were Americans in uniform there and who put them there? Then we zoom out another level and ask a bigger question: Where should American service personnel be? What is America’s role in the world in 2024? The listener will experience a unique and novel way to look at American foreign and military policy: from the boots up. Host TBD.