The Dispatch Podcast

In this inebriated live recording, Jonah and Steve take over a Manhattan bar to talk Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and the unhinged candidate making good on his promises. The two go back and forth on whether the GOP debates actually matter, and Steve gives Jonah a rare compliment. For the full discussion which include a Q/A portion with members, subscribe to The Skiff CLICK HERE to get your personal feed.

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Graeme Wood is in Israel to report on the aftermath of the October 7 atrocities for The Atlantic. He joins Jamie to share his impressions of Israel from before and after the attack, including:

-records (and recordings) of the pogrom

-the alienation between the Israeli state and the Israeli people

-the participation ultra-Orthodox Jews in the war effort

-the Hamas/ISIS comparison

-civilian deaths in Gaza

Show Notes:

-Graeme Wood's profile at The Atlantic

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Sarah, Steve and Jonah welcome Jamie Weinstein, who'll be taking over the Monday Dispatch Podcast. They discuss:

-Pence’s dazzling personality

-2024 GOP check-in

-Mike Johnson’s speakership win

-Dems for Dean?

-The death of the social justice movement

-Antisemitism on the rise

Show Notes:

-Sarah and Steve interview Mike Pence

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Jamie Weinstein begins his tenure as host of Monday Dispatch Podcasts with a discussion with Jeremy Rabkin. Rabkin, a professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, explains what exactly international law is and how it's relevant (or irrelevant) to Israel's war against Hamas.

-Law without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States

-Rabkin's profile at GMU

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Disclaimer: In this episode, which was recorded Thursday morning, we speculated about the delay in U.S. military response to provocations from Iran. By the time the episode released, news broke that the U.S. forces had struck Iranian targets in Syria.

The House finally has a speaker ... and he’s one of the architects of Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election. Sarah is joined by Steve and Mike Warren to explain who Rep. Mike Johnson is and what his speakership means for Trump’s hold on our politics. Also:

-Plea deals for Trump associates

-Joe Biden has a challenger?

-Pro-Hamas Democrats

-Jewish students harassed at Cooper Union

-“Reproductive freedom means Palestinian freedom”

-Qatar’s influence on college campuses

-Why institutions matter

-Iran’s real escalation

Show notes:

-Collision newsletter

-Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

-Video of Jewish students harassed at Cooper Union

-The Free Press: Qatar’s War for Young American Minds

-Twitter thread on Jake Sullivan's Foreign Affairs essay 

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How did the 10/7 massacre change the Middle East? What's Israel hoping to achieve in a ground invasion of Gaza? Are the Israel-Saudi normalization talks dead? Are we giving enough thought to the day after the war? Dr. Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute and its Howard P. Berkowitz chair in U.S. Middle East Policy, joins Dispatch senior producer Adaam to talk Middle East geopolitics. Also: an aside on "from the river to the sea."

Show Notes:

-Dr. Robert Satloff on Twitter/X (highly recommended to all you geopolitics fiends)

-Satloff: Regime Change, Israeli Style

-Satloff: thoughts on a post-Hamas Gaza

-Hamas' from-the-river-to-the-sea "solution" (MEMRI)

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Steve and Sarah sit down at Dispatch HQ with McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the forthcoming Romney: A Reckoning, a biography of Mitt Romney's political career. Coppin's unique access to the soon-to-be-retired Senator turns a traditional political biography into a near-psychological thriller covering Romney's torment after losing the 2012 presidential election, the psychic currency of a senate seat, and his vote to convict Donald Trump.

Show notes:

-Get The Skiff feed to listen to Steve's extra question

-Steve's extra question

-McKay Coppins profile at The Atlantic

-Romney: A Reckoning

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Adva's sister, Tamar, was at the Nova music festival in southern Israel. Tamar is still missing after the 7/10 massacre. Adva generously spoke to The Dispatch about her efforts to get more information, the shock, and life after the horror.

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Sarah, Steve, Chris, and David French discuss the war an Israel as a ground invasion of Gaza seems imminent and Western media spreads disinformation about a deadly blast in a Gaza hospital. The roundtable then turns to the House speaker race, this time giving the topic appropriately-lengthed shrift. Also:

-Illusion of Israel’s invincibility

-Information warfare

-The power of confirmation bias

-Trump's praise of Hezbollah

-Can Republicans be united?

-Matt Gaetz and the Seven Dwarves

-Worth Your Time (?): Zero-turn lawnmowers

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Economy, energy, and national security are the three major platforms Governor Doug Burgum is running on for his GOP presidential bid. Burgum joins David on The Dispatch Podcast to talk about the state of his campaign and:

-Israel-Hamas war

-Regimes going nuclear

-World War III prospects

-Pulling out of Afghanistan

-Containing China and US policy to help Taiwan

-Energy policy

-State of Burgum’s campaign

-Ignore national polls?

-Trump lost the election

-January 6th outlook

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