The Dispatch Podcast
Host Sarah Isgur is joined by Steve Hayes, and Jonah Goldberg for a weekly thoughtful discussion on politics, policy, and culture.
Debating American Involvement in Taiwan | Interview: Lyle Goldstein
What Did It All Mean? | Roundtable
Appointing Toadies | Interview: Andy McCarthy
The Trump Picks ... So Far | Roundtable
The Foreign Policy of a Second Trump Administration | Interview: Rich Goldberg
Why Kamala Harris Lost
As Goes Pennsylvania | Interview: Charlie Dent
Polling, What Is It Good For? | Roundtable
Voting Against Kamala | Interview: Hugh Hewitt
Voting as a Marital Crisis | Roundtable
Voting Against Trump | Interview: David Frum
Kamala vs. The Media | Roundtable
What The People of Gaza Actually Think | Interview: Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
The Deciders | Interview: Tevi Troy
The Politics of Disaster | Roundtable
A Year Since Oct 7: The Future of the War (pt. 2) | Interview: Dan Senor
A Year Since Oct 7: Israel After the Massacre (Part 1) | Roundtable
The Experts That Failed Us | Roundtable
The Highest Calling | Interview: David Rubenstein
All the Lonely Conservatives (Left, Right & Center Crossover)
Is Iran Suicidal? | Interview: Reuel Marc Gerecht
I’m Not Inflaming Political Violence, You Are | Roundtable
Donald Trump’s Soul | Interview: Olivia Nuzzi
Who Moderates the Moderators | Roundtable
MAGA No More? | Interview: Jonathan Martin
Liberal Elegy | Roundtable
Surviving Trumpworld | Interview: H.R. McMaster
All That Fluff | Roundtable
Are the Normies Taking Over? | Interview: Ben Dreyfuss
SNEAK PEEK: Kamala Is the Democratic Nominee | Dispatch Live Roundtable
Can Kamala Harris Escape Her Record? | Interview: Bakari Sellers
David French Is Wrong (Or Is He?) | Roundtable
What Should Never Trumpers Do Now? | Interview: Matt Lewis
Pivoting to the Far Left | Roundtable
Will Israel Become a Rogue State? | Interview: Nadav Eyal, Einat Wilf, & David French
The Weirding Way | Roundtable
Newt Gingrich: ‘We Must Win’ | Interview
'This Ought to Be Alarming' | Roundtable
TEASER: Biden Drops Out
What Would a Second Trump Term Mean for Foreign Policy? | Interview: Eliot Cohen
TEASE: Trump Goes Off Script, Because Of Course He Does | Dispatch Live
The Assassination Attempt | Roundtable
What Happened in France | Interview: Bernard-Henri Lévy
Biden Presser Leaves Dems in Limbo | Roundtable
'Democrats Should Stop Gaslighting Us' | Interview: Tim Miller
How MAGA Election Conspiracies Threaten Public Servants | Interview: Stephen Richer
Dishonest, Partisan, or Just Bad at Their Job? | Roundtable
Ex-Clinton Aide on Whether Joe Should Go | Interview: Philippe Reines
Yikes | Roundtable
Destined for Greatness | Interview: Shilo Brooks
Why You Should Watch the Biden-Trump Debate ... On Mute | Roundtable
In Data We Trust | Interview: Steve Ballmer
Hunter’s Trial, Alito’s Tribulations | Roundtable
Former NYT Producer on Groupthink in Journalism | Interview: Andy Mills
Joe's Woes | Roundtable
Why Bother to Vote | Interview: George Will
Trump's Guilty. Now What? | Roundtable
What Are Economists Actually Good For? | Interview: Doug Holtz-Eakin
Where Do Haley Voters Go? | Roundtable
How George Floyd Changed American Education | Interview: George Packer
Trump or Baby Hitler? | Roundtable
How the Far Left Thinks About Israel | Interview: Bill Ayers
Embracing Failure | Roundtable
The Second Coming of Trump | Interview: Robert Costa
The Cult of The College Protest | Roundtable
Is Qatar an Arsonist or a Firefighter? | Interview: Jonathan Schanzer
All the Lonely People | Interview: Derek Thompson
Motion to Placate | Roundtable
Columbia Professor: Terrorism Is The Point | Interview: Shai Davidai
The Dispatch and The Bulwark Walk Into a Bar... | Interview: Tim Miller
Bodega Campaign Tactics | Roundtable
How to Read Politics and Politicians | Interview: Carlos Lozada
No True Conviction on Abortion | Roundtable
Debating the Israel-Hamas War | Interview: Mehdi Hasan
Biden’s Losing the Vibe War | Roundtable
Gaza Changed Urban Warfare | Interview: John Spencer
About That NBC News Drama ... | Roundtable
The Blindspots of Partisan Media | Interview: Brian Stelter
The Double-Hater Voter | Roundtable
Should the U.S. Defend Taiwan? | Interview: Dan Negrea and Matthew Kroenig
Welcoming the Stranger | Interview: Bishop Mark Seitz
That's What Xi Said | Roundtable
Democracy and Freedom | Interview: Natan Sharansky
Waiting for the NASCAR Crash | Roundtable
Should the RNC Pay Trump’s Legal Bills? | Interview: Henry Barbour
Nat Cons and Gen Z | Interview: David Brog
Countdown Until Super Tuesday | Interview: Nikki Haley
The Trials of Donald Trump, Explained | Roundtable x Collision
The Future of the Conservative Movement | Live Roundtable
Is North Korea Preparing for War? | Interview: Nicholas Eberstadt
What We're Paying for in Ukraine | Explainer: Mark Cancian
Bring Back Political Factions | Roundtable
Is the Republican Party Worth It? | Interview: Rep. Dan Crenshaw
MAGA vs. NATO | Roundtable
How Drudge Broke the News | Interview: Chris Moody
Lankford Hates His Job | Roundtable
A Libertarian's Journey to Trump | Interview: J.W. Verret
The Taylor Swift Grift | Roundtable
Escaping the Victim Pyramid | Interview: AG Hamilton
Can We Call It Quits? | Roundtable
Dispatch Live Unlocked: Nikki's Night in New Hampshire
The Far Left vs. Biden | Interview: David Axelrod
Did Americans Ever Really Care About Policy? | Roundtable
Dispatch Live Unlocked: On the Ground in Iowa and New Hampshire
The Bubba Vote | Interview: David "Mudcat" Saunders
The Iowa Chill | Roundtable
Welcome to the 2024 Elections | Interview: Ben Jacobs
Blame the Voters? | Roundtable
Going After Harvard Corp. | Interview: Harvey Mansfield
Sniffing Out Advocacy | Interview: Robert P. George
Florida Man Blocked From Colorado Ballots | Roundtable
Ukraine on the Brink | Interview: Tim Mak
TEASER: An Israeli and Palestinian Talk Gaza | Dispatch Live
Passing the Buck on Abortion Law in Texas | Roundtable
When America Is Weak | Interview: John Bolton
Sleepwalking Into Autocracy | Interview: Liz Cheney
So You're Saying There's a New Sheriff In Town? | Roundtable
Is It Too Late for Two States? | Interview: Shadi Hamid
Working in Congress Sucks | Roundtable
The Christie Doctrine | Interview: Chris Christie
When Journalists Go Along with Hamas | Interview: Matti Friedman
A Party in Trump's Image | Interview: Patrick Ruffini
Trump's Retribution | Interview: Maggie Haberman
Oh No | Roundtable
Civil War in Trumpworld | Interview: Jonathan Karl
From Islamism to Nationalism | Interview: Ben Judah
Live from New York: Steve and Jonah Drink and React
Israel's Ghost Towns
Trump Davidians
So, About International Law
Trump Rising
The Old Rules Don't Apply: Israel at War
McKay Coppins on Mitt Romney
War In Israel: Hamas Took Her Sister
War and Lies in Gaza
The Doug Burgum Candidacy
Axis of A-Holes
Rep. Buck: No Moral Fortitude in Speaker’s Race
Worried About Inequality? Fix Marriage.
Bad Vibes at the Border
The Future of the Pro-Life Movement
Members Only: America's Classless Society
Are We Doomed Yet?
On the Brink of a Government Shutdown
Shut It All Down (Dispatch Politics Takeover)
Cotton to Biden: Send More Support to Ukraine
Members Only: The GOP Flirts With Civil War
Putin's Bromance
Ken Paxton's Impeachment Trial
The Election Nobody Asked For
Brittle Regimes
Threats and Allies in the Indo-Pacific
The Debate That Didn't Matter
The A.I. Arms Race in Political Ads
Braindead Partisanship
No Labels, No Problem
Wrath of the Normals
Israel's Constitutional Moment
Schrödinger's Trump
Washington Is A Mess
Self-Abasing Gestures and Canine Loyalties
Conservatives Abroad
Donors and Grifters
Will Taiwan Fight?
AG Sulzberger on NYT, Objectivity, and Media Bias
France Riots, Explained
Let's Go Coup-ing
'Nuclear War? Yawn!'
A Race of Unpopulars
The White House Runs Through Georgia
Explainer: The Politics of Classified Documents (w/ Peter Meijer)
Circle the Wagon
Penceian Posture
Explainer: Turkey Today
Explainer: Do Other Candidates Stand A Chance?
Debt Deal Denouement?
Debt Ceiling Countdown: An Explainer
Faking Empathy
The Durham Split Screen
Entitlement Reform w/ Senator Cassidy
Trump on Their Minds
Fake Town Halls (w/ Chris Christie)
Crime and Drones
White Flags and Olive Branches
Bad Week for NatCons
Proto-Candidate Mike Pence
Fox News Will Not Change
4Chan Putin Stan?
DeSantis, Decider
Maybe Voters Are Trying To Tell You Something
The Left, Right, and Religious
Trump Indicted
Crime or Karma?
Investigating January 6th
Housekeeping and the Apocalypse (w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)
Blank Checks and Balances
The Tucker Tapes
Back On Track with Larry Hogan
The Twisted World of Media Tycoons
Red, Blue, and Green
Paging Dr. Strangelove
Biden Abroad, Trump at Home
Floating Middle Finger
What's Brewing on the Horizon?
Will The Real Fiscal Conservatives Please Stand Up?
Sad and Predictable
Gov. Sununu: Why New Hampshire's Different
Purge Artists
The Twitter Files Explained w/ Kmele Foster
China's Demographic Decline
Extraordinary Measures
The Biden Files
Creatures of Capitol Hill
Sen. Sasse's Exit Interview
Inflation, Recession and the Fed
The Year of the Exhausted Majority
Ripping Off the Band-Aid of Title 42
Did Trump Cross the Mendoza Line?
Why Mitch Can't Have Nice Things
What Should We Be Doing?
The Desperate Despots Club
The DeSantis Dilemma
All Bow to the God of Conventional Wisdom
The Secret Mass Killer
Bibi's Back, Baby
Your Midterms Questions, Answered
Rise of the Vote Bots
The 'Most Moderate' Republican in the Race
A Time and a Place for Pettiness
Not at Dartmouth Anymore
Sen. Bill Cassidy on OPEC
Between Politics and Morality
Back to Fundamentals
Who Blew Up Nord Stream?
The Future of the Electoral Count Act
Putin Makes Nuclear Threats
Lindsey Graham's New-Old Abortion Ban
Mar-a-Lago Documents Investigation Explained
Justice Department Turns Up the Heat
Mark Leibovich Talks Thank You for Your Servitude
Biden Makes a Move on Student Loan Debt
What’s With These GOP Senate Candidates?
Liz Cheney Defeated in Wyoming, Ukraine Fights On
The Inflation Reduction Act, a Libertarian Nightmare
FBI Searches Mar-a-Lago, Trump Takes the Fifth
FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago: What Does it Mean?
Fallout of Kansas Rejecting Abortion Amendment
David Axelrod Previews the Midterms, 2024
Economy Contracts, Manchin Makes a Deal
Mo Elleithee Talks New Battleground Poll
January 6 Panel Details Trump's Inaction
James Webb Takes Us Back in Time
Inflation Surges to 40-Year High
Robert O'Brien Talks Global Threats
The Tragedy in Highland Park
Goodbye Red Brick Road
Grappling with a Post-Roe America
How the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Became Law
Biden Pushes for Gas Tax Holiday
How Gas Prices Got So High
Takeaways From Elections in South Carolina and Texas
Crimes of the Present
January 6 Committee Makes Its Case
Chuck Todd Previews Midterms, January 6 Hearings
100 Days of War in Ukraine
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Primaries?
The Tragedy in Uvalde
Revenge of the Incumbents in Georgia
The Tragedy in Buffalo
Mark Esper on ‘A Sacred Oath’
The Inflation Game
Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns on ‘This Will Not Pass’
Supreme Court, Abortion, and the Political Fallout
Mitt Romney Talks Inflation and the Economy
Is This The ‘70s All Over Again?
California's Fiscal Future
Mask Mandates and McCarthy's Lie
Immigration and the Problem at the Border
Political Implications of Inflation
Let's Talk About Sex
Future of Supreme Court Fights
Cheri Bustos Reflects on Her Service
Biden Taps Oil Reserve
Understanding Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
KBJ's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Wrap
One Month of War in Ukraine
Russia, Iran, and the American Response
Zelensky Makes His Plea to Congress for Ukraine
On the Ground in Ukraine
Ukraine Under Attack
The World Has Changed
Ben Sasse, Barbara Comstock, and the State of the Union
Russia Starts a War
Understanding Vladimir Putin's Russia
We Can't Get No Satisfaction
Ukraine Hit By Cyberattacks
Todd Rose Talks Collective Illusions
‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
Rob Portman on Risk of War in Ukraine
Trump Tried to Steal an Election
Replacing a Supreme Court Justice
The Escalating Crisis in Ukraine
Heidi Heitkamp Talks Filibuster, Biden’s First Year
Biden at One Year
Rep. Newhouse on Voting Rights Push
Biden Pivots to Voting Rights
2022 and the Upcoming Midterms
January 6: One Year Later
The Collapse of Build Back Better
January 6 and Those Mark Meadows Texts
Raffensperger on the Need for Integrity
Jonathan Karl on Trump's Final Days
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case
Curb Your Inflation
Supply-Chain Woes Explained
Supply-Chain's Political Fallout
Sen. Ben Sasse at the Aspen Security Forum
Biden Backlash Begins
What’s Happening In Loudoun County?
Final Push in Virginia
Balance of Power: China and the United States
China's Hypersonic Missile Ambitions
Former Congressmen Burn Down the House
Texas Governor Fights Vaccine Mandates
Our Growing Pirate Skiff
Rising Tensions in the Indo-Pacific
Infrastructure Stalemate
Democrats Split on Capitol Hill
The Fight to Raise the Debt Ceiling
Is Biden Just Bad at his Job?
S.E. Cupp on Moderation and Social Media
General Milley and Trump's Final Days
Ben Sasse on Afghanistan and Reflections on September 11
September 11: 20 Years Later
Abortion in America
Disco Ball of Asininity
Rep. Mike Gallagher on Afghanistan
Scramble to Evacuate Afghanistan
Failure in Afghanistan
American Defeat
Infrastructure Passes and Collapse in Afghanistan
Senate Approves Infrastructure Bill
Six Months Into Biden's Iran Strategy
End of the Line for Cuomo
Will Hurd on Dysfunction in Congress
January 6 Committee Gets Started
Finding the Ideological Center of Gravity
White House Battles Social Media Over Misinformation
Chris Christie Talks Future of the GOP
Cries for Freedom in Cuba
Capitol Riot Investigation Pushes Forward
Six Months Later
From Ohio with Love
Welcome to New York City
Infrastructure Deal's Uncertain Future
Taliban Makes Gains in Afghanistan
Bipartisan Food Truck Conversation
The Fight Over Critical Race Theory
Mitch Daniels Talks Higher Ed
Biden's Agenda Meets Reality
The Origin of Coronavirus
Our Afghan Interpreters Need More From Us
Guns in America
The Politics of Stank
GOP Turns on January 6 Commission
The Politics of Israel and Palestine
Liz Cheney Makes Her Case
Republicans Make Their Choice
House GOP Set to Oust Cheney
All By Herself
George W. Bush Paints E Pluribus Unum
The First 100 Days
Sentencing Derek Chauvin
A Guilty Verdict in Minneapolis
Jesus and Evangelical Politics
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine on Hold
The Treasure of the Scout Mindset
Defining Infrastructure
Mick Mulvaney and the Reasonable Nutjobs
Infrastructure Push and Bumpy Roads
Coronavirus, Variants, and Vaccines
The World as It Is
Speak Loudly and Carry No Stick?
Migrant Surge at the Border
Always. Be. Shilling.
The Battle Over H.R. 1
The Once and Future Right
The Politics of Relief
Coronavirus and the Return to Normalcy
Mitt Romney Has a Plan
China and the Uighur Genocide
The Grapes of Play-Acting
Children, Classrooms, and Coronavirus
Anatomy of an Impeachment Trial
No Ragrets
Right Thing for the Right Reasons
One of Ten
Was That Wrong?
The Next Four Years
America's Next Chapter
Mr. Meijer Goes to Washington
A President's Final Days
Almost Inevitable
No Such Thing as Rock Bottom
Sitting Here on Capitol Hill
Somebody's Wrong Online
Mess with Texas?
Norms!
Politics is a Complicated Profession
It Was Always Going to End This Way
Finding a Common Goal
Ironic Crayons
All the President's Conspiracies
Purging the Pentagon
Let's Talk About Facts
The Long Road to 270
It All Leads to This
Closing Arguments
The Science of Politics
2016, 2020 and This Moment
Narrative Laundering
Chekhov's Gun
The Power Washer Approach
For Whom the Bell Tweets
Virus Inside the Wire
America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Debate
Fight for the Highest Court
Principle vs. Prudence
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Trump?
The Long Road to Peace
An Enduring Memory
Latino Voters and 2020
The Art of Nuance
'Mostly Peaceful'
A Tale of Two Conventions
Unrest in Wisconsin
GOP Flirts with QAnon
It's Kamala Harris
Iceberg, Right Ahead!
Chaos vs. Community
Thanks, Noam Chomsky
Larry Hogan Looks to the Future
All Sizzle and No Steak
From Afghanistan with Love
French Fry Wars
Untold No More
Feel My Pain
The Art of Persuasion
The Russian Plot
Some Like It On the Trail
Exhausted American Summer
License to Analyze Media
Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Lusitania
The Great Awokening
Pain and Protest
Right Hand, Left Hand
Apples and Pink Flamingos
Censorship Through Noise
20 Hours on Twitter
Hell's Comin' With Me
Paul Romer Has a Plan
Coronavirus Machismo
China's "Discourse Power"
Struggle in the Pacific
Men of Note
Protest Poop
Front Row Seat
Performative Bravado
Kummerspeck
Pandemic Politics
Coronavirus and China
Battling Coronavirus
Life Under Coronavirus
Feminist Cul-de-sac
Joe's Super Tuesday
Arrogance is Folly
Blagojevich Set Free
Messy Chaotic Lanes
Incompetence
A Game of Witnesses
Pettifogging
Foreign Policy Face Off
At the Edge of War