Matt Lewis and the News

By Matt Lewis

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Subscribers: 115
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 300

Tim S
 Jan 9, 2024
Matt always has excellent guests, and he respects his guests! It's a breath of fresh air to be able to hear guests talk and discuss their craft with no host bloviating. This podcast has actual human conversation. Thank you!!


 Oct 19, 2023

Drew T
 Feb 24, 2020
his podcast is awful. his voice awful. dont bother with this one, get your news somewhere else.

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Matt Lewis is a Senior Columnist at The Daily Beast, and the author of Too Dumb to Fail. On this podcast, Matt and his guests engage in thoughtful, long-form discussions about politics, culture, history, public policy, and the news—all in a civil and respectful manner.

Episode Date
Our Final Podcast?
Apr 16, 2024
Will Saletan on How Trump is Redefining What ‘RINO’ Means
Apr 09, 2024
Important Message! and Tom Nichols Q&A
Apr 06, 2024
That Nancy Mace Interview
Mar 12, 2024
Rescuing Democracy From Extremists
Mar 04, 2024
Rina Shah on Mitch McConnell’s Legacy
Mar 01, 2024
CPAC and the End of Democracy I Guy Denton Conversation
Feb 24, 2024
Will Saletan on Trump’s $399 Sneakers
Feb 21, 2024
Was Trump Inevitable? I Matthew Sitman on the Conservative Movement
Feb 20, 2024
Why the Right Loves Russia
Feb 17, 2024
Tom Arnold on Politics
Feb 14, 2024
Guy Denton on 2024’s ‘Grampa Simpson vs. Mr. Burns’ Election
Feb 10, 2024
David Frum on Woodrow Wilson Derangement Syndrome
Feb 06, 2024
Groundhog Day (Solo Episode)
Feb 03, 2024
Tom Nichols on the Taylor Swift ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Theory
Jan 31, 2024
Nikki Haley Trolls Trump. But Is It Too Late? 
Jan 28, 2024
Mike Murphy on Nikki Haley and New Hampshire
Jan 22, 2024
David Frum on What Happened to Republicans
Jan 19, 2024
Steve Kornacki Looks at N.H.
Jan 18, 2024
Trump Wins Iowa: Are the GOP Primaries Already Over?
Jan 16, 2024
Guy Denton on the GOP Debate, Christie’s Exodus, and Iowa
Jan 11, 2024
Bruce Mehlman’s 2023 Take-Aways and 2024 Look-Aheads
Jan 09, 2024
Being a Fox 5 Cameraman at the Jan. 6, Capitol Riot (Classic)
Jan 06, 2024
Rule of the Robots
Jan 04, 2024
Art Tavana on Guns N’ Roses
Dec 27, 2023
Christmas History with David Pietrusza (Classic Episode)
Dec 24, 2023
Brian Kilmeade on Teddy and Booker T.
Dec 20, 2023
Tevi Troy: Conservatives we lost in 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
Dec 14, 2023
The Book at War
Dec 09, 2023
Joe Trippi: Nikki Haley Has a Shot!
Dec 06, 2023
Josh Kraushaar Talks Israel and Previews the GOP Debate
Dec 05, 2023
Simon Rosenberg: Biden is Winning
Nov 29, 2023
You Are What You Watch
Nov 21, 2023
Batya Ungar-Sargon on Antisemitism in America
Nov 17, 2023
Brian Stelter on Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy
Nov 15, 2023
Patrick Ruffini on Party of the People
Nov 09, 2023
David Frum on Biden’s Grim Polling
Nov 07, 2023
Antisemitism on college campuses
Oct 30, 2023
Decoding Greatness
Oct 27, 2023
Bruce Mehlman on The House Speaker’s Race and 2024
Oct 16, 2023
David Pietrusza on Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City
Oct 13, 2023
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Oct 08, 2023
What Civility Means—and Why It Matters
Oct 06, 2023
Biden’s Decision and The Ghosts of Presidents Past
Oct 04, 2023
Orioles Magic with Joe Trippi and Chris Meekins
Sep 29, 2023
The Conservative Futurist
Sep 26, 2023
Cenk Uygur on Biden, Populism, and Corporate Media
Sep 20, 2023
Jeffrey Blehar on Why Mitt Romney Doesn’t Get to Write His Own Happy Ending
Sep 18, 2023
Arthur Brooks on Finding Success in the 2nd Half of Life
Sep 14, 2023
The Shaming of Julia Mazur
Sep 09, 2023
Jonathan Taplin on The End Of Reality
Aug 30, 2023
William Beutler: AI’s Problem is That it’s Boring
Aug 26, 2023
Video Game Legend John Romero
Aug 24, 2023
Debates, Wildfires, and Counterprogramming
Aug 22, 2023
GOP Debate Preview and Polls
Aug 21, 2023
Songwriter Rick Lee James on ‘Keep Watch, Dear Lord’
Aug 16, 2023
Making ‘Bull Durham’
Aug 11, 2023
Jonathan Taplin on The Band’s Robbie Robertson and The Hypnotist 
Aug 09, 2023
Ross Douthat on ‘The Deep Places’
Aug 08, 2023
Why Psychiatrically Unwell Behavior Dominates Social Media
Aug 02, 2023
The Triumph of Nancy Reagan
Jul 31, 2023
Why Innocent People Get Stuck in Prison
Jul 26, 2023
Mike Murphy on Why Trump Won’t Win The Primary
Jul 15, 2023
What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans
Jul 10, 2023
Book Update and Spotting Talent
Jul 07, 2023
The Right’s ‘Farm Team’ is Weird and Weak
Jun 30, 2023
Batya Ungar-Sargon on RFK, Jr.
Jun 27, 2023
Remembering The Tulsa Race Massacre
Jun 23, 2023
David Frum on How Trump Broke Marco Rubio
Jun 16, 2023
Bill Scher on Trump’s 2nd Indictment
Jun 10, 2023
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on The Overlooked Americans
Jun 07, 2023
Stephen Kent on Punditry and Harrison Ford
Jun 06, 2023
David Pietrusza on D-Day
Jun 02, 2023
Hanna Skandera on Civics Education
May 31, 2023
A Taxonomy of NeverTrump
May 25, 2023
Collin Hansen on Tim Keller’s Legacy
May 22, 2023
Marc Caputo on Trump vs. DeSantis
May 18, 2023
Bruce Mehlman on The Four Addictions
May 15, 2023
Simon Says…Don’t Bet Against Biden
May 13, 2023
How Gun Culture Radicalized America
May 10, 2023
Jeffrey Toobin on Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
May 06, 2023
How To NOT Get Canceled
May 04, 2023
Dave Barry on ‘Swamp Story’
May 02, 2023
Slinging Pudding: Jake Lahut on Trump vs. DeSantis
May 01, 2023
Tom Nichols on Biden-Harris ’24
Apr 29, 2023
The Media Sold Us On Casual Sex
Apr 27, 2023
Stephen Gutowski on Guns
Apr 26, 2023
Is Trump The Inevitable GOP Nominee?
Apr 13, 2023
Daniel K. Williams on The Politics of the Cross (Rebroadcast)
Apr 10, 2023
Matt’s Easter Episode
Apr 07, 2023
Pence Or Get Off The Pot
Apr 06, 2023
Kimberly Leonard Explains Ron DeSantis
Mar 30, 2023
David Frum on Trump’s Violent Rhetoric
Mar 28, 2023
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
Mar 27, 2023
Lance Morrow on The Noise Of Typewriters
Mar 22, 2023
Brian Rosenwald on Biden’s Reelection Chances
Mar 16, 2023
David McCormick on ‘Superpower In Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America’
Mar 15, 2023
Steve Krakauer on CNN and Fox News
Mar 07, 2023
Alexandra Hudson on Storytelling and the Human Condition
Mar 01, 2023
Tevi Troy on How Writers Make It Work Now
Feb 27, 2023
Rick Hess on The Media’s Slanted Coverage of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Feb 24, 2023
Will Sommer on QAnon
Feb 23, 2023
Jack Butler on How ‘Bronze Age Pervert’ Seduced Right-Wing Thought Leaders
Feb 22, 2023
Jon Ward on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
Feb 20, 2023
Bruce Mehlman on the Issues Driving Politics in 2023
Feb 17, 2023
Daily Ballers on ‘Meatball Ron’
Feb 14, 2023
Paul D. Miller on Christian Nationalism
Feb 10, 2023
Jeffrey Lord is Sticking With Trump
Feb 09, 2023
Hyrum Lewis: ‘Left’ And ‘Right’ Are Myths
Feb 02, 2023
David Frum on Conspiracy Theories
Jan 31, 2023
Michael Strain: U.S. Debt is a ‘Termites In The Woodwork’ Problem
Jan 28, 2023
Cliff Bleszinski on Video Game Politics
Jan 25, 2023
John Ziegler on Trump Returning to Twitter
Jan 19, 2023
Dominic Pino on Edmund Burke and the Perennial Battle, 1789-1797
Jan 17, 2023
Ericka Andersen on Why Women Need The Church And The Church Needs Women
Jan 16, 2023
Am I the House Speaker?
Jan 04, 2023
Best of 2022: Ron Shelton on Bull Durham
Dec 30, 2022
Best of 2022: John Popper of Blues Traveler
Dec 29, 2022
Best of 2022: A.J. Jacobs on The Puzzler
Dec 27, 2022
Best of 2022: Matthew Continetti on The Right
Dec 26, 2022
David Pietrusza’s Christmas Special (Rebroadcast)
Dec 23, 2022
Tevi Troy on Conservatives We Lost in 2022
Dec 22, 2022
Mark L. Clifford on China’s Crackdown in Hong Kong
Dec 20, 2022
Brian Rosenwald on How to Fix Our Broken Media
Dec 13, 2022
Bill Scher on Krysten Sinema’s Party Switch
Dec 10, 2022
David Swerdlick on Kanye
Dec 05, 2022
Matt’s Guest Appearance on ‘StandUP! with Pete Dominick’
Nov 29, 2022
John Ziegler on Trump, The Media, and COVID
Nov 25, 2022
Megan McArdle on Gratitude and Twitter
Nov 22, 2022
Bruce Mehlman: Voters Sought Stability in Midterms
Nov 19, 2022
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Trump and 2024
Nov 16, 2022
Simon Rosenberg Was Right!
Nov 12, 2022
David Frum on Midterms, DeSantis, and Twitter
Nov 11, 2022
Russell Moore on Kanye, Bono, and Christian Celebs
Nov 09, 2022
Henry Olsen’s Midterm Elections Preview
Nov 06, 2022
David Drucker on the GOP Race to Replace Trump in 2024
Nov 02, 2022
Jim Antle on The Walker-Fetterman Comparison
Oct 29, 2022
Charlotte Alter on the Vibes Theory of Politics
Oct 27, 2022
Steve Kornacki Zoom Call
Oct 22, 2022
Patrick Ruffini on Midterm Turnout and Hispanic Voters
Oct 20, 2022
Nicholas Kardaras on Digital Madness
Oct 14, 2022
Cynthia Covey Haller: Live Life in Crescendo
Oct 12, 2022
Daniel S. Medwed on Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison
Oct 10, 2022
Damien Schiff on Sackett v. EPA
Oct 07, 2022
John J. Miller on Iron Maiden, Politics, and Podcasting
Oct 05, 2022
Mike Murphy Zoom Call
Sep 30, 2022
Leigh Giangreco on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Sep 27, 2022
Nicholas Eberstadt on Men Without Work
Sep 23, 2022
Adrian Hon on Gamification
Sep 21, 2022
Josh Kraushaar on 3 Races That Will Decide The U.S. Senate
Sep 19, 2022
David Pietrusza on Roosevelt Sweeps Nation
Sep 15, 2022
Ron Shelton on The Church of Baseball
Sep 13, 2022
Scot Bertram on Political Beats
Sep 09, 2022
Eboo Patel on Why It’s Better to Build Than to Burn It Down
Sep 05, 2022
Tevi Troy on A History of Investigating Ex-Presidents
Sep 04, 2022
Todd Rose on What Americans Really Think
Aug 31, 2022
Simon Rosenberg on How Dems Got Their Groove Back This Summer
Aug 30, 2022
Chris Stirewalt on ‘Broken News’
Aug 27, 2022
Tucker Carlson and Matt (Classic episode)
Aug 23, 2022
Down Goes Cheney!
Aug 18, 2022
Ron Filipkowski on Exposing Republican Radicals
Aug 16, 2022
FBI Agent on Safety and Security Secrets
Aug 08, 2022
John Avlon on Abraham Lincoln
Aug 07, 2022
T.K. Coleman on Work and Meaning (Rebroadcast)
Aug 02, 2022
George Will Talks With Matt (Classic episode)
Jul 29, 2022
Bruce Mehlman on The Red Storm Rising
Jul 27, 2022
Tevi Troy Says Biden Faces a Mutiny
Jul 23, 2022
Nate Hochman on The Post-Religious Right and The GOP
Jul 20, 2022
Lis Smith on Any Given Tuesday
Jul 19, 2022
David Frum Zoom Call
Jul 16, 2022
Simon Rosenberg Says Dems Can Still Win 2022
Jul 12, 2022
David Drucker on 2024 GOP Presidential Speculation
Jul 08, 2022
Noah Rothman on The Rise of the New Puritans
Jul 05, 2022
Liz Wolfe on Bodily Autonomy vs. Life
Jul 01, 2022
Will Rahn on the Cassidy Hutchinson Hearing
Jun 29, 2022
Mike Murphy’s Advice For Ron DeSantis
Jun 24, 2022
Josh Kraushaar on Why Latinos Are Leaving The Left
Jun 17, 2022
Matt Sienkiewicz on Conservative Comedy
Jun 14, 2022
Angie Speaks about Johnny Depp, Dave Weigel, and Capitalism
Jun 09, 2022
Dana Hall McCain on Alabama’s GOP Senate Runoff
Jun 07, 2022
Surviving (And Flourishing In) Political Punditry
Jun 03, 2022
James Kirchick on Secret City
May 31, 2022
Will Swaim on The California Exodus
May 27, 2022
Jonathan Martin on GA Primary Results and ‘This Will Not Pass’
May 25, 2022
David B. Wheeler on Firing Madison Cawthorn
May 24, 2022
Tyler Cowen on Spotting Talent
May 20, 2022
Liz Wolfe on Biden’s ‘Disinformation Expert’
May 18, 2022
Thomas Kidd on Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
May 12, 2022
Jim Antle on Never Trumpers for Roe
May 10, 2022
Henry Olsen on GOP Primaries and Roe v. Wade’s Political Impact
May 05, 2022
Batya Ungar-Sargon on Elon Musk and China
May 03, 2022
A.J. Jacobs on The Puzzler
Apr 27, 2022
Christopher Heath on Florida, DeSantis, and Disney
Apr 25, 2022
Mona Charen on The Crisis of Masculinity
Apr 22, 2022
David Frum on Ukraine and Masculinity
Apr 20, 2022
Megan McArdle on Why Republicans Need a Plan
Apr 19, 2022
Ilya Shapiro on (Almost) Being Canceled for a Tweet
Apr 18, 2022
Matthew Continetti on The Right
Apr 14, 2022
Matthew Hennessey on the Visible Hand
Apr 13, 2022
Josh Kraushaar on Trump’s Dr. Oz Endorsement
Apr 12, 2022
Can Marine Le Pen Win in France?
Apr 08, 2022
Yuval Levin on Why Politicians Keep Pursuing a Losing Strategy
Apr 07, 2022
What America’s Right Sees in Hungary’s Viktor Orbán (Rebroadcast)
Apr 05, 2022
Steven F. Hayward on M. Stanton Evans
Mar 30, 2022
Gregg Nunziata on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing and Ginni Thomas’s Texts
Mar 25, 2022
Cedric Leighton on Being a Military Analyst for CNN
Mar 23, 2022
John Popper of Blues Traveler on Music, Fame, and Politics
Mar 22, 2022
Bruce Mehlman on The Post Post-Cold War World
Mar 17, 2022
Arthur Brooks on Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the 2nd Half of Life
Mar 15, 2022
Is Russia’s Invasion Hurting Trump-Endorsed Republicans?
Mar 10, 2022
Jamie Weinstein and Will Rahn on Ukraine
Mar 08, 2022
Jason L. Riley on The Black Boom
Mar 03, 2022
Michael Weiss on Russia’s Ukraine Invasion
Mar 01, 2022
Michael R. Strain on Preserving Liberal Democracy
Feb 25, 2022
Jeremy Peters on What’s Up with The Right
Feb 23, 2022
P.J. O’Rourke and Matt (Rebroadcast)
Feb 16, 2022
John Avlon on Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
Feb 15, 2022
Batya Ungar-Sargon on Canadian Truckers Protests
Feb 10, 2022
Mike Pence’s Play
Feb 09, 2022
‘Alex Jones Territory’: Is Russia Planning a ‘False Flag’ Operation?
Feb 07, 2022
Amala Ekpunobi on Leaving Leftism
Feb 03, 2022
Todd Rose on Collective Illusions
Feb 02, 2022
Matthew Continetti on Putin and Appeasement
Jan 29, 2022
Bruce Mehlman on Biden’s SCOTUS Pick
Jan 28, 2022
David Frum on Russia, Newt, and Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Jan 26, 2022
Jeff Mayhugh on Marriage, Fatherhood, and Community
Jan 21, 2022
David Heath on The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Jan 19, 2022
Make America Florida
Jan 18, 2022
Michael Malice on The Anarchist Handbook
Jan 12, 2022
Brad Wilcox on How COVID Supercharged Family Trends
Jan 11, 2022
John Podhoretz Isn’t Worried About American Democracy
Jan 06, 2022
Van Applegate on Being a Cameraman at The January 6 Riot
Jan 05, 2022
Tevi Troy on Conservatives We Lost in 2021
Dec 26, 2021
Christmas Day History
Dec 22, 2021
J.P. De Gance on The Church’s Strategic Move to Save Faith and Family
Dec 21, 2021
Shadi Hamid on Being an Anti-‘Woke’ Progressive
Dec 16, 2021
Corey Nathan on Talkin’ Politics & Religion Without Killin’ Each Other
Dec 14, 2021
Bruce Mehlman on 2022’s Top Risks
Dec 10, 2021
David French on the Mississippi Abortion Case
Dec 09, 2021
Charlie Sykes on Gun Fetishes for Christmas
Dec 08, 2021
David Bahnsen on There’s No Free Lunch
Dec 03, 2021
Tevi Troy on Lessons for Kamala Harris
Nov 30, 2021
The Biggest Political Turkeys of 2021
Nov 23, 2021
Michael Mechanic on How Rich People Live
Nov 19, 2021
Jedediah Bila on Vax Mandates, ‘The View,’ and Parenthood
Nov 17, 2021
Aaron Maté About The Steele Dossier and Russiagate
Nov 16, 2021
Tom Ricks Returns
Nov 12, 2021
David Frum on a Post-Trump GOP
Nov 10, 2021
Batya Ungar-Sargon on How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
Nov 09, 2021
Brad Raffensperger on Integrity
Nov 02, 2021
David Drucker on The Battle for 2024
Oct 30, 2021
Victor Davis Hanson on The Dying Citizen
Oct 28, 2021
Stephen Hayes on The Culture Wars
Oct 26, 2021
Ross Douthat on Lyme Disease
Oct 20, 2021
Henry Olsen on Zombie Reaganism and Post-Trump Populism
Oct 18, 2021
Robby Soave on Cancel Culture and Tech Panic
Oct 14, 2021
Katie Herzog on Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix Special
Oct 14, 2021
David Bodanis on The Art of Fairness
Oct 08, 2021
Tom Nichols on Our Own Worst Enemy
Oct 06, 2021
Hanna Trudo on Dem Infighting Over Biden’s Agenda
Oct 05, 2021
Mike Murphy on Dems in Disarray
Sep 30, 2021
Glenn Greenwald on the Reordering
Sep 29, 2021
Martin Ford on Rule of the Robots
Sep 26, 2021
Rod Dreher on an Orbán of Our Own
Sep 23, 2021
George Will on American Happiness and Discontents
Sep 22, 2021
David Frum on Doing The Right Thing
Sep 21, 2021
Bill Scher on Biden’s Precarious Agenda
Sep 20, 2021
Katie Herzog on AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Dress
Sep 16, 2021
Eric Garcia on Changing the Autism Conversation
Sep 08, 2021
David French on The Texas Abortion Law
Sep 03, 2021
Daniel Darling on Getting Fired for Pro-Vaccine Remarks
Aug 31, 2021
Was Trump The Inevitable Conclusion for The GOP?
Aug 25, 2021
Michael Pregent on Biden’s August 31 Deadline
Aug 25, 2021
Bill Kristol on Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal
Aug 18, 2021
Bruce Mehlman on Failures’ Fallout
Aug 18, 2021
‘If you’re Ron DeSantis right now, are you jealous of Viktor Orbán?’
Aug 14, 2021
Kristy Perano on Saving Afghan Interpreters
Aug 11, 2021
Casey Mattox on Qualified Immunity’s Long Reach
Aug 02, 2021
Charles Camosy on Losing Dignity
Jul 27, 2021
Michael Strain on Billionaires in Space
Jul 24, 2021
Michael Bender on Frankly, We Did Win This Election
Jul 23, 2021
Will Saletan on COVID and Communism
Jul 21, 2021
Lala Suarez Mooney on Cuba
Jul 15, 2021
Joe Trippi on a Pro-Democracy Coalition
Jul 13, 2021
Neil Bradley on Chamber of Commerce Endorsements
Jul 12, 2021
Stephen Kent on Punditry
Jul 10, 2021
Josh Kraushaar: Joe Biden Needs a ‘Malarky Moment’
Jul 07, 2021
Rumsfeld’s Rules
Jun 30, 2021
Charles Murray on Facing Reality
Jun 29, 2021
David Lat on Surviving COVID and Covering The Court
Jun 24, 2021
Katie Herzog on CRT
Jun 23, 2021
Jonathan Rauch on The Constitution of Knowledge
Jun 21, 2021
Is Trump the 2024 Frontrunner?
Jun 20, 2021
Ron Friedman on Decoding Greatness
Jun 10, 2021
Edward-Isaac Dovere on Battle for the Soul
Jun 08, 2021
David Pietrusza on D-Day
Jun 04, 2021
David R. Stokes on JFK’s Ghost
Jun 02, 2021
Tim Madigan on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
May 26, 2021
Bernard Goldberg on The Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’ Media Story
May 25, 2021