The Ricochet Podcast

Weekly episodes of Ricochet’s flagship podcast feature our hosts James Lileks, Rob Long, Peter Robinson, and guests discussing the issues of the week.Listen to The Ricochet Podcast, along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com. No paid subscription required.

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It's All OK

Episode Date: September 7, 2018

Hugely busy week, which means a hugely busy podcast. This week, the invaluable Byron York stops by to set us straight on just who might have penned th...

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State Fair

Episode Date: August 30, 2018

This week, we do a Rico-Centric show with our regular crew and our two trusty editors: Jon Gabriel (Ricochet’s beloved EIC) and Bethany Mandel, the Ma...

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Ask The Founders

Episode Date: August 17, 2018

This week, Lileks is on vacation, so we forgo the guests and open the floor to you, our faithful Ricochet listeners. We get questions on the President...

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Space Force Cadets

Episode Date: August 10, 2018

Did someone say Space Force? That’s just too irresistible a topic for this podcast not to tackle in depth. So we do. But that’s not all. No sir. We al...

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Flipping The Bird

Episode Date: August 3, 2018

This week, a super-sized episode featuring scooters, Nebraska’s own Ben Sasse on trade, tariffs, Trump, and Kavanaugh, self-driving cars, Twitter mob,...

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Life On Mars

Episode Date: July 27, 2018

This week, we visit with Republican candidate for Senate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Beth Lindstom, who’s running a valiant attempt to unseat...

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The Last Straw

Episode Date: July 20, 2018

This week, some rumination on Trump’s tete a tete with Putin (along with a history lesson for Rob Long), we introduce you to Elizabeth Heng, who is ru...

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No Deal Is A Good Deal

Episode Date: July 13, 2018

This week, we travel across the pond to talk with our good mate James Delingpole to get his very hot take on Trump’s visit, What May or May not happen...

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Red Hens and Dogs

Episode Date: June 29, 2018

As you’ll hear, there were many possible titles for this episode, but we went with the simplest and most descriptive for we spewing a fair amount of t...

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Bull Session

Episode Date: June 15, 2018

Another big news week and we’ve assembled the appropriate heavy hitters to help us parse it: first up, Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on North Korea, t...

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The Things That Matter

Episode Date: June 8, 2018

We cribbed the title of this week’s show from Charles Krauthammer’s book as it perfectly describes what we’re feeling this week after the announcement...

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Star Power

Episode Date: June 1, 2018

This week, we take a bit of break from the politics of the day to delve into the culture a bit with our guest Richard Rushfield, Editor-in-Chief of th...

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Advice to Grads?

Episode Date: May 25, 2018

This week, we wanted to do a show aimed at graduating students — which is why we booked The WSJ’s Andy Kessler to discuss his column Advice to New Gra...

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Kudlow, Gen X, and Tom Wolfe

Episode Date: May 18, 2018

After a rousing live edition of the podcast in DC, we’re back on virtual home ground and we hit the ground running. First up, our old pal Larry Kudlow...

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In Hot Water in D.C.

Episode Date: May 14, 2018

It takes a special occasion to take The Big Show® to bigger things and higher heights. What’s bigger than the AEI/Ricochet Podcast Summit? Try the 400...

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Peace In Our Time?

Episode Date: May 4, 2018

This week, we go deep on North Korea with AEI’s Nicholas Eberstadt and Salena Zito tells us not to break out the surf boards quite yet — that blue wav...

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Suicide of The West

Episode Date: April 27, 2018

This week, it’s our good pal Jonah Goldberg for the full hour to talk about his new book, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism,...

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Waiting on a Friend

Episode Date: April 19, 2018

This week on the Big Show®, we’ve got former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul (pre-order his new book From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American...

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The Business We've Chosen

Episode Date: April 13, 2018

This week, two terrific reporters join us from their beats: first up, Salena Zito., National Political Reporter for The Washington Examiner (and autho...