The Bulwark Podcast

Smart, Conservative, Never Tribal

About the show

Charlie Sykes and guests discuss the latest news from inside Washington and around the world. No shouting, grandstanding, or sloganeering. Conservative, conscientious, and civil.

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Episodes

  • Elizabeth Neumann on Confronting the Salad Bar of Hatred

    March 18th, 2021  |  53 mins 58 secs
    bill barr, china, domestic extremism, foreign meddling, immigration, iran, joe biden, russia

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Elizabeth Neumann joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the threats of violence posed by domestic extremists, foreign meddling in elections, and the newly-formed Council on National Security and Immigration.

  • Mona Charen: What Happened to J.D. Vance?

    March 17th, 2021  |  49 mins 14 secs
    cancel culture, filibuster, j.d. vance, mitch mcconnell, nominations, ohio senate, steven crowder

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Mona Charen joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about her item on what happened to J.D. Vance.

  • Tim Miller on Cats, Dogs, and Tucker Carlson

    March 16th, 2021  |  49 mins 53 secs
    andrew cuomo, cats, covid-19, daylight saving time, dogs, donald trump, j.d. vance, jane timkin, joe biden, josh mandel, ohio, operation warp speed, senate, tucker carlson, vaccinations

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Tim Miller joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about the vaccine rollout, Tucker Carlson’s schtick, the Ohio Senate race, Andrew Cuomo, and cats and dogs.

  • Jessica Huseman on the Fight for Voting Rights

    March 15th, 2021  |  49 mins 13 secs
    elections, gop, h.r. 1, john lewis voting rights advancement act, ron johnson, tucker carlson, voting, white nationalism

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Jessica Huseman joins Charlie Sykes to discuss H.R. 1, the The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the GOP’s problem with not-so-subtly telegraphing white nationalism.

  • Bill Kristol on the GOP's Anger Management

    March 12th, 2021  |  46 mins 10 secs
    biden, cats, covid, dogs, fox news, speech

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Bill Kristol joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the Biden COVID-19 speech, how the right is overreacting to it, and the internal arguments about cats and dogs.

  • S.V. Dáte on Why Trump Isn't Going Away

    March 11th, 2021  |  46 mins 25 secs
    democrats, donald trump, elections, gop, joe biden, midterms, president biden

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, S.V. Dáte joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss why Donald Trump isn’t going away, Joe Biden’s early weeks in office, and how the GOP and the Democrats are setting the stage for the midterms and 2024 over election laws.

  • David Shor on Why Hispanics Moved Right

    March 10th, 2021  |  38 mins 1 sec
    2020, coalitions, democrats, election, hispanics, republicans, suburban voters

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, David Shor joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about the 2020 election and how our political coalitions have changed.

  • Tim O'Brien on Donald Trump and His Legal Future

    March 9th, 2021  |  41 mins 33 secs
    financial troubles, legal troubles, trump

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Bloomberg’s Tim O’Brien joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about Donald Trump’s fiscal and legal future, now that he is a private citizen.

  • Jonathan Allen on Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

    March 8th, 2021  |  45 mins 55 secs
    2020, donald trump, election, joe biden

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Jonathan Allen joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss his new book, co-authored with Amie Parnes, Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency.

  • Philip Rucker on The Future of the 'Very Stable Genius'

    March 5th, 2021  |  38 mins 20 secs
    2024, cuomo, donald trump, elections, gop, house, joe biden, loyalty, midterms, presidency, reality, senate, trump derangement syndrome, trumpism

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Philip Rucker of The Washington Post joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about the updates to his and Carol Leonnig’s book, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America, and the future of Trump and Trumpism in the midterms and in 2024.

  • Mickey Edwards on Getting Mugged by Reality

    March 4th, 2021  |  43 mins 47 secs
    acu, congress, cpac, heritage foundation, mickey edwards, oklahoma, republican party

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Former Congressman Mickey Edwards joins Charlie Sykes to talk about his Republican journey and the rise and fall of CPAC and the American Conservative Union.

  • Adam Kinzinger on Censure Frenzy and Strange New Respect

    March 3rd, 2021  |  42 mins 21 secs
    adam kinzinger, binary politics, cancel culture, compromise, congress, elections, gop, grift, spending, stimulus, strange new respect

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Rep. Adam Kinzinger joins Charlie Sykes to discuss the GOP’s censure obsession, why he’s working to find conservatives who want to put country first and not Trump first and the future of legislating and compromise in what is increasingly a binary political culture.

  • The GOP's Trump Captivity

    March 2nd, 2021  |  41 mins 27 secs
    andrew cuomo, democrats, establishment, gop, mike lee, political elites, trump

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Bill Kristol and Mona Charen step in for Charlie Sykes to discuss why Republicans can’t quit Trump, British police shows, and Andrew Cuomo’s scandals.

  • Tim Miller on CPAC and the Big Lie

    March 1st, 2021  |  55 mins 34 secs
    big lie, conservatism, cpac, donald trump, election, gop, insurrection, josh hawley, kristi noem, ron desantis, ted cruz, tom cotton

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes to discuss 2021 CPAC, and how the big election lie was propagated (and cheered) and why the insurrection it fomented was ignored.

  • Josh Kraushaar on the GOP’s Cancel Culture

    February 26th, 2021  |  45 mins 10 secs
    cancel culture, covid relief, cpac, gop, joe biden, reopening schools, trumpism

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Josh Kraushaaur joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss CPAC, school closures and the Biden campaign’s promise, COVID-19 relief, and the Trumpian cancel culture of the GOP.

  • Tim Miller and Charlie Sykes Dunk on Andrew Cuomo

    February 25th, 2021  |  51 mins 30 secs
    american conservatism, andrew cuomo, liz cheney, marjorie taylor greene, taxes, the federalist, trump, white identity politics

    On today’s Bulwark podcast, Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes to talk about Andrew Cuomo, Trump’s taxes, Liz Cheney, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the right’s white identity problem.