Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Postmodern Conservatism Chapter 2: Locke, America, and the Jews Chapter 3: Halacha, Religion, and Freedom Chapter 4: Politics and the Individual Chapter 5: Not All Identities are Created Equal Are we living at the end of modernity? Is […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Family, Founding, and Policing the Right Chapter 2: In Search of Anti-Semitism Chapter 3: Pat Buchanan and the Paleocons Chapter 4: Joe Sobran and the Struggle to Define Anti-Semitism Chapter 5: Anti-Semitism and Today’s Conservative Movement Anti-Semitism knows […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Jewish Response to Crisis Chapter 2: Assimilation, Resistance, or Isolation? Chapter 3: A Different Jewish Politics Chapter 4: Sovereignty and the Creative Minority Chapter 5: The End of History and Hopes for the Future From the breakdown […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Has support for Israel become a partisan issue in the United States? What role can a commitment to Jewish culture play in ensuring the Jewish future? And how does an observant Jew say grace? These are just some of the […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Political Beginnings and the Journey from Liberal to Conservative Chapter 2: Republicans and Human Rights Chapter 3: Behind the Scenes—Bombing the Syrian Reactor Chapter 4: Israel, America, and the Jewish Future “The proper method for the study of […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Addiction, Spirituality, and Public Policy Chapter 2: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Limits of Science Chapter 3: Soul Sickness Chapter 4: Exodus and Addiction America is in the throes of an addiction crisis. The ravages of the opioid epidemic […]

Religious liberty is on trial in America, both in legislative debates at the state and federal level and in court cases now working their way through the judicial system. As the environment for religious traditionalists becomes more hostile, observant Jews will increasingly confront some difficult questions: Will American society continue to respect the religious freedom of […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Evangelicals’ Love Affair with the Jews Chapter 2: Materialism, Marxism, and Mainline Protestants Chapter 3: A One-Sided Affection Chapter 4: Jews’ Misguided Alliances Chapter 5: The Future of Jewish-Christian Relations Why don’t Jews like the Christians who like […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Appeal of the Wall  Chapter 2: The Phases of Jewish Thought on Church-State Relations Chapter 3: The Seminal Statement of Reaction Chapter 4: Education—Parochial and Public Chapter 5: Religion and Politics Today It was Thomas Jefferson, in a now-famous […]

Norman Podhoretz is one of the preeminent intellectuals of the modern era: editor of Commentary for 35 years, master literary critic, piercing political thinker and polemicist, fearless defender of American and Jewish interests. After an early collection of essays, his first full-length book, Making It, was published in 1967—and it was an intellectual earthquake. A boldly […]