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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Spanish Peanuts

Episode Date: October 25, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file The Ricochet Podcast returns with two members of the podcast bullpen getting up to the plate: The Hemingway’s Mollie Hemingway...

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Not Sorry About It

Episode Date: October 17, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, Troy Senik sits in for Rob Long, The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney on the political fallout from the shutdown, a...

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New York City Meet-Up

Episode Date: October 17, 2013

Here’s the audio from our Ricochet Meet-up at Galway Pub in mid-town Manhattan. Rob Long hosts John Podhoretz, Ann Coulter (buy her new book Never Tru...

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Off The Record

Episode Date: October 9, 2013

This week on the podcast: strategies and secrets. Author and fellow at the Claremont Institute Charles Kesler stops by to discuss his book I Am The Ch...

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Green Eggs and Sajak

Episode Date: September 25, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, we self-adminster the Ricochet RINO Litmus Test® to determine exactly who is a coastal media elitist and who isn’t....

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The Limbaugh Lecture

Episode Date: September 18, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, two giants grace us with their presence and wisdom. First the great Norman Podhoretz (or as we like to call him, “T...

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Comrades In Arms

Episode Date: September 12, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, Mollie Hemingway sits in for Peter, and of course we cover Syria, the Russians, and the President. Then, we’re join...

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American Wonk with Avik Roy

Episode Date: September 7, 2013

Avik Roy and Manhattan Institute colleague Yevgeniy Feyman discuss their new interactive map, published at Forbes, which explores the impact of Obamac...

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The Military Option

Episode Date: September 4, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week on the podcast, we parse the Syrian question with experts on both the Middle East and the political perspective. The...

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Summer's End

Episode Date: August 21, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file It’s our last podcast of the summer and to mark the change of season, we’ve reunited the crew after their far-flung vacations...

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The Newspaper Rules

Episode Date: August 9, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, Rob and James are cruising but their deck shoes are more than filled by Ricochet editor Mollie Hemingway. She and P...

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The Selfie

Episode Date: July 25, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file We get wordy and reflective this week with our guests, authors Andrew Klavan and C.J. Box. Of course, we talk about Weiners, w...

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We're So Baked

Episode Date: July 18, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file We’re down one host this week (Lileks is on assignment), but it’s a super-sized edition of The Ricochet Podcast, clocking in a...

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Get Me My Glasses

Episode Date: July 11, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week on the world famous Ricochet Podcast, City Journal editor Brian Anderson on the state of California and his new book...

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Independence Day

Episode Date: July 3, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week on the podcast, James and Peter talk Egyptian politics and culture with Hoover’s Fouad Ajami (read his WSJ Op-Ed pie...

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Enforce The Law

Episode Date: June 27, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, Peter Robinson returns with tales of the east, a fervent debate on the complications of the Supreme Court’s DOMA ru...

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Lesson From Lincoln

Episode Date: June 14, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week, Rich Lowry, National Review Editor and author of Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the Ame...

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Listen Up

Episode Date: June 7, 2013

Lots to talk about this week, and we have the guests who are more than up to the task (Troy Senik is sitting in for Peter): Michael Barone, the dean o...

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Taking The Fifth

Episode Date: May 24, 2013

Direct link to MP3 file This week on the one and only Ricochet Podcast, Peter is MIA, but Rob and James soldier on in style with guests AEI President...

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Texas, Taxes, and Scandals

Episode Date: May 17, 2013

Direct link to mp3 file It’s another action-packed edition of the Ricochet Podcast, as we’re joined by Texas governor Rick Perry and National Review c...