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4 days ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Ivana Greco |Alex Demas |Valerie Pavilonis
Staring at the one-eyed baby. Published May 10, 2025 • Updated May 9, 2025 Jonah Goldberg ruminates upon the papal news, the dingo’s fly assassination skills, Columbia University’s new president, yet another unpronounceable German political philosophy theory, Joe Biden’s definition of misogyny, and Trump’s new threat to the film industry.
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4 days ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas
When passengers first arrive on a train into central London, many are greeted by the ornate, towering clock face of St. Pancras International or the abstract modern dome of King’s Cross. Paddington Station, three miles down the road, however, shares little of its bigger sisters’ pomp. Its large iron and glass roof was probably impressive in the 1850s when it was first built, but today the station feels largely utilitarian, a forgotten relic of the city’s industrial past.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Charles Hilu |Alex Demas
Plus: David Lat joins The Dispatch extended legal universe. By and Published April 29, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French are joined by Amy Howe and David Lat, of The Dispatch’s extended legal universe, to debate whether the Supreme Court should be more transparent. Sarah and David then separate fact from the fiction in the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan. (Also: should there be cameras in the Supreme Court?)The Agenda:—Cameras at SCOTUS?
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas
As the Trump administration loosens regulatory burdens on the cryptocurrency industry and walks back prosecutions against prominent crypto firms and proponents, critics are questioning whether the president’s embrace of digital assets will—or already has—presented opportunities for influence peddling, self-enrichment, and favoritism. The world of crypto is massive—and confusing.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Sarah Isgur |Alex Demas
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this … Published April 17, 2025 Jonah Goldberg is rolling like a stone through Ivy League speaking events and is holed up in New Haven to conduct an AMA with the one and only Chris Stirewalt. Topics range from marmot taxonomy, Tom Selleck’s career ethics, Maserati salesman attire, and of course, rank punditry galore. Show Notes:—Continue your education on The Gay Place—Jonah for the Los Angeles Times: “Gov.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Jonah Goldberg |Alex Demas
'It's a real race to the bottom.' By and Published April 17, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the ongoing saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s illegal deportation and what’s next for the man currently in a notorious El Salvadorian prison. The Agenda:—SCOTUS order: effectuate vs. facilitate—Emergency docket scorecard—Turnover at the solicitor general’s office—MAGA’s legal strategies backfiring—Tariff lawsuit in California challenges executive power—Papa Musk
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |Scott Lincicome |Nick Catoggio |Abby McCloskey
A growing chorus of Democrats are calling for investigations into allegations of insider trading and market manipulation by White House officials, Republican members of Congress, and friends of the Trump administration. The allegations—which stem from the sudden rise in equity values following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day tariff pause last week—come from prominent administration critics like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep.
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4 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jeremiah Johnson |James Kirchick |Kevin Williamson |Alex Demas
The first thing I said when they finished cutting out my kidney was, “Oh god, it hurts like a m*****f*****.”Don’t worry. I wasn’t the victim of a back-alley scheme to steal organs. Six years ago, I donated my kidney to a stranger on the kidney waiting list, in what’s known as an altruistic or non-directed donation. I did get some pain medication pretty quickly after my … emphatic declaration, I recovered over the next two weeks, and I’ve been perfectly healthy since.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Alex Demas |Grayson Logue |Charlotte Lawson
Alex Jones, a right-wing conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, appeared on the Tucker Carlson Show, the former Fox News host’s video podcast, last Wednesday. The pair made misleading and outright false statements throughout their two-hour discussion on topics ranging from 9/11, the Ukrainian government, U.S. intelligence on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and nonprofit organizations formed in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February placing a temporary freeze on new and existing criminal enforcement actions involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)—a longstanding federal foreign bribery statute and one of the most powerful mechanisms against global corporate corruption—his move sparked concerns from administration critics that the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi might take a lax approach to white-collar crime enforcement...
