Beste The Bulwark podcaster (2025)

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Awards Season in Flux 49:15

2d ago49:15

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This week I’m joined by Richard Rushfield and Katey Rich of The Ankler to discuss the state of the awards season post-Golden Globes and in the midst of the Los Angeles fires. (Indeed, Los Angeles resident Richard is in the city to give us an on-the-ground update of the state of things from his perspective. Please excuse any background noise/distort…

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Amanda Carpenter: We Are Team Karen (Pence) 55:52

3d ago55:52

55:52

"Mother" Pence is owed an apology. She snubbed Trump so hard and so beautifully at Jimmy Carter's funeral—and wasn't about to make nice with the man who was all-in on Jan 6 rioters trying to lynch her husband. Meanwhile, the catturd crowd is mad at Amy Coney Barrett for not falling in line, and running off to Greenland while American neighborhoods …

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Is 'Nosferatu' a Yes from Us?

6d ago

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‘Nosferatu’ (MovieStillsDB) On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discussed the announcement that a Melania Trump documentary is in the works with director Brett Ratner for Prime Video. (No, this is not Mad Libs.) Then they reviewed Nosferatu, Robert Eggers’s remake of…

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Derek Thompson and Elizabeth Weil: The Trend Toward Solitude 1:13:50

4d ago1:13:50

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Americans have been spending more time alone—and less time doing face-to-face socializing—than we have for at least 60 years. And our alone time is impacting the economy, our politics, and our personalities, particularly among young people. Meanwhile, the fires in Los Angeles are a heartbreaking reminder that the California landscape was meant to b…

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Liam Donovan and Brendan Boyle: The Great Grift 1:08:25

5d ago1:08:25

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Trump talked a lot more about Hannibal Lecter during the campaign than one of his actual top priorities: extending his 2017 tax cuts. With those $4.5 trillion in cuts set to expire by the end of the year, that's the first major item of business for congressional Republicans. But how they get paid for will affect people's lives. Tim takes a deep div…

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Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks Up to Trump 59:22

6d ago59:22

59:22

Mark Zuckerberg is doing all he can to get an audience with the big man at Mar-a-Lago, including praising Trump's (faux) free speech bona fides and restructuring Meta to eliminate fact-checking. Maybe it's because Zuck wants to show his middle finger to the mean tech reporters—or maybe it's because Trump threatened to imprison Zuck. Plus, the consp…

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Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI 50:58

7d ago50:58

50:58

Kash Patel's Jan 6 lie requires FBI officials to have been able to see into the future: to *know* that Trump would lose in 2020 and then try to get Congress to reverse the election results. And they also would have to have known they could get thousands of people to attack the Capitol—just to make MAGA look bad. Are GOP senators really going to cle…

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The Fascinating Legacy of 'Yacht Rock' 46:07

9d ago46:07

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On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Steven Hyden, who—in addition to being the author of books on Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and Radiohead, and a prolific author at Uproxx—served as the story producer on HBO’s new film, Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary. In addition to discussing just what it means to be a story producer on a documentary, we discusse…

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Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City 44:17

10d ago44:17

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New Orleans is the most special city in America, but it's a place that also breaks your heart. Local leaders will have to reassure the world that the French Quarter is safe. Plus, Mike Johnson is bound up in a Gordian Knot, and Democrats are petrified of the wrath of leading progressive interest groups in DC— it's like the Dem Party's version of Tr…

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David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism 50:31

11d ago50:31

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Apart from the death and carnage on New Years Day in New Orleans, Americans revealed another darkness once again: an eagerness to pin violence on someone who doesn't share their political world view. Meanwhile, Republicans rushed to attack the FBI as a way to justify confirming Kash Patel. Plus, Trump has tossed populism aside as he preps to be ope…

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Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission 1:03:25

13d ago1:03:25

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While some media outlets may be moving to accommodate Trump out of fear he'll target them, The Bulwark will not be recalibrating. We'll keep providing the (sometimes funny) content you expect, we'll try not to chase Trump's bait (Canada, Greenland, Panama), and we'll disaggregate the real from the trolling. Plus, when one of the worst people in the…

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The Rise of Bob Dylan

13d ago

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‘A Complete Unknown’ (MovieStillsDB) On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason), discussed Will Tavlin’s n+1 opus on Netflix and the rise—or maybe resurgence—of casual viewing as the primary mode of media engagement. Then they reviewed A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s mo…

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Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts 47:52

14d ago47:52

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MAGA v DOGE, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, is an early sign of the coming infighting that could diminish Trump's power—we're definitely not seeing signs of an iron fist amid all that golfing and DJ-ing at Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile, the world he'll be dealing with is far less stable than it was in 2017. Plus, a Carter appreciation, love for C…

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'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral' 1:23:29

17d ago1:23:29

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Do you have to pick a side in politics? That was the question Reason Magazine, the flagship publication of the libertarian movement, invited The Bulwark to debate. In a panel moderated by Reason features editor and Across the Movie Aisle co-host Peter Suderman, Sarah and Tim debated picking sides with Reason editors-at-large Matt Welch and Nick Gil…

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The Deranged Exuberance of 'Emilia Pérez'

20d ago

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‘Emilia Pérez’ (MovieStillsDB) Merry Christmas Eve! On this week’s supersized episode to get you through the airport, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask if it’s a controversy or a controversy that Blake Lively’s costar and director, Justin Baldoni, seems to have orchestrated a virtual …

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Everything There Is to Know About Star Wars 49:33

23d ago49:33

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On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Brandon Wainerdi to discuss DK’s hefty and handsome new reference book, Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy. We discussed how he broke into writing about Star Wars, researching his entries for the book, and why so much of what we obsessives know about Star Wars comes not from…

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Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible 1:08:18

24d ago1:08:18

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While it's still going to be bad, for the first time since the election we're beginning to see that we may actually have a little fun watching these idiots prove they don't know how to govern. Meanwhile, we've also got aspiring authoritarians on the left who think they're right at any cost. Plus, the challenge of holding on to American ideals, how …

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Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government 47:35

25d ago47:35

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We are seeing in real time what it looks like to turn a democracy over to an oligarch, namely the unstable guy from South Africa who thinks he's going to be emperor of the universe. It's also authoritarian for that one unstable guy to threaten members of congress with job loss if they vote to provide hurricane relief or to rebuild part of the inter…

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Mark Hertling: Putin's Weakness 46:22

26d ago46:22

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Russia is on its weakest footing since it invaded Ukraine: Putin has destroyed his military, his economy is in the toilet, and the North Korean troops who've been deployed to help out are dying in waves on the battlefield. Why would the US bail Putin out? Meanwhile, MAGA world is trying to distract us with phony DEI issues in the military while we'…

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Tom Nichols: Don't Descend into Darkness 58:09

27d ago58:09

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The existential dread has a strong pull, especially since Trump has made a lot of Americans worse people, but we've had other bad, immoral, and creepy presidents who've sullied the office. Meanwhile, Vance is basically the invisible man while Elon lives in Trump's bedroom, and Andreessen is loading up a pile of BS to justify his vote. Plus, a Tim v…

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No One Was Cravin' 'Kraven'

27d ago

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‘Kraven the Hunter’ (MovieStillsDB) On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) looked at The Entertainment Strategy Guy’s breakdown of podcast stats and asked if this truly was “the podcast election.” Then they reviewed Kraven the Hunter, a movie so bad it killed an entire …

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Bill Kristol: Fake Nicey-Nicey Sh**t 36:45

28d ago36:45

36:45

ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have joined the preemptive capitulation parade by settling Trump's defamation suit—and by conspicuously paying out protection money ahead of the inauguration. The potential chilling effect on a key First Amendment issue is breathtaking. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney backs off of his criticism of Trump and Vance. Plus, th…

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Bringing Novels Into the Internet Age 30:19

1M ago30:19

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On this week’s episode, I’m joined by novelist and Broadway producer Michael Wolk to discuss his new interactive novel, Devil’s Game. You can check it out yourself here; it’s an interesting mix of web-first design and apocalyptic airport thriller. We talked about what drove him to write this novel and also discussed the state of Broadway and live t…

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Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime 44:20

1M ago44:20

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The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine the rule of law—is often very bad for business. Meanwhile, Team Trump is distracting the media and the public with the firehose of nominations. Plus, el…

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Matt Yglesias and Tyler Austin Harper: Popularism v Populism 1:12:07

1M ago1:12:07

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The origins of the Democratic party's current malaise include ineffective messaging on climate and economic policy, too rigid a tent on cultural issues, and Dem politicians just too scared to speak their mind. Like, Kamala could've turned the trans youth in sports convo into one about parents spending boatloads on sports camps so their kids can get…

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Adam Kinzinger and Pat Ryan: Bring It On 1:06:29

1M ago1:06:29

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Team Trump is trying to intimidate the opposition. Stop showing them your fear. Plus, Gaetz moves from AG nominee to low-rent MAGA cable channel host, and RT's girlfriend, Tulsi, could have access to the identities of our informants in Russia if she is confirmed. Meanwhile, as Dems plot a way forward, they need to be more clear about calling out th…

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Susan Glasser: A Lame Lame Duck 52:32

1M ago52:32

52:32

A sense of Biden's irrelevance has descended on Washington, with Trump flying off to Paris and meeting world leaders, and also openly conducting his own foreign policy—often at odds with the current US policy. Meanwhile, following the diminishment of our foes in the Middle East, and after all the assistance America gave to Israel and Ukraine, Biden…

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Amy Adams’s Ode to Motherhood

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‘Nightbitch’ (MovieStillsDB) On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discussed a controversial (or possibly nontroversial?) op-ed in the New York Times asking if “the awkward diversity era” of blockbuster filmmaking is over. (Gift link there so you should be able to read…

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Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss: Catastrophic Success 57:14

1M ago57:14

57:14

Trump is threatening members of Congress with jail and Republican senators may be circling the wagons around his nominees, but we still need to protect ourselves from a nihilistic mindset. Plus, cautious optimism and uncertainty after the fall of Syria's brutal dictatorship. And no, Tulsi: You were wrong. Assad was our enemy. Bill Kristol and Micha…

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The Copyrighted Material Being Used to Train AI 40:10

1M ago40:10

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On this week’s episode, I talked to Alex Reisner about his pieces in The Atlantic highlighting the copyrighted material being hoovered into large language models to help AI chatbots simulate human speech. If you’re a screenwriter and would like to see which of your work has been appropriated to aid in the effort, click here; he has assembled a sear…

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Awards Season in Flux 49:15

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Amanda Carpenter: We Are Team Karen (Pence) 55:52

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Is 'Nosferatu' a Yes from Us?

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Derek Thompson and Elizabeth Weil: The Trend Toward Solitude 1:13:50

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Liam Donovan and Brendan Boyle: The Great Grift 1:08:25

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Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks Up to Trump 59:22

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Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI 50:58

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The Fascinating Legacy of 'Yacht Rock' 46:07

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Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City 44:17

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David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism 50:31

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Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission 1:03:25

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The Rise of Bob Dylan

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Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts 47:52

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'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral' 1:23:29

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The Deranged Exuberance of 'Emilia Pérez'

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Everything There Is to Know About Star Wars 49:33

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Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible 1:08:18

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Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government 47:35

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Mark Hertling: Putin's Weakness 46:22

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Tom Nichols: Don't Descend into Darkness 58:09

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No One Was Cravin' 'Kraven'

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Bill Kristol: Fake Nicey-Nicey Sh**t 36:45

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Bringing Novels Into the Internet Age 30:19

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Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime 44:20

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Matt Yglesias and Tyler Austin Harper: Popularism v Populism 1:12:07

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Adam Kinzinger and Pat Ryan: Bring It On 1:06:29

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Susan Glasser: A Lame Lame Duck 52:32

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Amy Adams’s Ode to Motherhood

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Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss: Catastrophic Success 57:14

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The Copyrighted Material Being Used to Train AI 40:10

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