The Comedy Cellar: Live From The Table

Aaron David Miller is an American Middle East analyst, author and negotiator. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been an advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, USAToday and CNN.com.

A freewheeling debate on a lot of matters. Check out our YouTube page for sources and fact-checking matters. https://youtu.be/F1GkOhvscVY

Noam Dworman sits down with Philip Bump and Dov Davidoff.  Philip Bump is a national columnist for The Washington Post; before that he led political coverage for The Atlantic Wire. One of the paper’s most read writers, he focuses on the data behind polls and political rhetoric. Dov Davidoff is a comic and an actor whose television appearances include The Tonight Show, Crashing and numerous others. He is regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Coleman Hughes and Michael Moynihan join for a quick conversation addressing some of Norman Finkelstein's main arguments.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of multiple books including the forthcoming, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

Daniel-Ryan Spaulding is a world-traveling comedian, TV writer and social media influencer. He has been described by Huffington Post as “brilliantly subversive,” and has a one-man show called 'Power Gay.' His special, 'So Berlin,' is available on YouTube.

Dan Senor, the author of the new book "The Genius of Israel", is a columnist, writer, and political adviser. We discuss Israeli society during the war, the effect on American politics, Biden's hopes for reelection, and much more.

Alan Dershowitz has been called 'the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer' and one of its 'most distinguished defenders of individual rights,' 'the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,' 'the top lawyer of last resort,' and 'America's most public Jewish defender.' He is the author of forty books including seven bestsellers.

This is a version of a debate originally aired on Live From America. See an extensively sourced version on YouTube https://youtu.be/XuDK8nyyT2I

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine, host of its weekly culture podcast, Unorthodox, and author of the new book, How the Talmud Can Change Your Life.

Mark Yosef is an attorney, comic and the new owner of Dangerfield's Comedy Club.

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome? Spyer pushes back on some of the more extreme interpretations of Netanyahu's policies and comments. Also discussed: Human shields, Jihad, Camp David negotiations, and more. Spyer is a British-Israeli analyst, writer, and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs. He is director of research at the Middle East Forum, editor of Middle East Quarterly magazine

Shai-Li Ron, a student at Harvard as well as former spokesperson for the IDF, describes the current state of anti semitism on campus.

Comments: Podcast@comedycellar.com Controversial Professor Norman Finkelstein and Commentary Magazine writer Eli Lake debate the current Hamas-Israel conflict. It's quite a conversation. Check out Eli's podcast - The Reeducation, and Professor Finkelstein's many books, including Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom.

PEN CEO and author of the book Dare To Speak, Suzanne Nossel discusses the coverage of Hamas, the banning of books in school libraries, Twitter, and other free speech matters. Buy her book! https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Speak-Defending-Free-Speech/dp/0062966030

Columbia professor Khalidi felt this interview was an "ambush." You be the judge.  We discuss all matters Palestine. *Two clarifications: 1. I think we talked past each other a bit on the issue of "indigenous people." I wish I had that part to do over. 2. He said the Israelis were killed in "settlements," he didn't use the word "settlers". I don't really think there's a difference though.  00:00:19: Ambushed? 00:09:52 The Hospital "Strike" 00:14:13 False Casualty Counts? 00:23:00 Has Israel Really Targeted Hospitals Before? 00:25:00 Does Hamas Use Human Shields? 00:34:00 Is International Law Used To Control the Oppressed? 00:44:02 Is Israel A White Settler Colony, Indigenous, or Both 00:51:00 Solutions? One State? Two States? 01:09:04 Were the Israelis Killed on "Settlements?" Order his book: "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine". https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War-Palestine-Colonialism/dp/B083Z3YW4S/ref=sr_1_2?crid=DTV4RF6OW2XO&keywords=rashid+khalidi&qid=1697992719&sprefix=rashi%2Caps%2C297&sr=8-2

Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the co-author, along with Rikki Schlott, of the new book, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Destroys Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution. Get Greg's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-American-Mind-Undermines-Threatens-ebook/dp/B0BTZT9PLM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20F3LOZXMQW85&keywords=greg+lukianoff&qid=1697910161&s=digital-text&sprefix=greg+lu%2Cdigital-text%2C77&sr=1-1

Noam Dworman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with journalist and editor Bret Stephens to discuss Hamas's attack on Israel. Bret Stephens joined The New York Times as an Opinion columnist in April 2017. He came to The Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor in charge of international opinion and, for 11 years, the paper’s principal foreign-affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. At The Post he oversaw the paper’s news, editorial, digital and international operations, and also wrote a weekly column. He has reported from around the world and interviewed scores of world leaders. Mr. Stephens is the author of “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder,” released in November 2014. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including three honorary doctorates, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2022, the government of R

Ross Barkan is a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine and a columnist for Crain's. His Substack is called Political Currents.

Israel's preeminent historian, Benny Morris, discusses the latest Israeli controversies. He hasn't budged much...