Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein
Dirty Moderate showcases the people who cut through the nails-on-a-chalkboard din of the modern-day American political scene. We promote rigorous analysis and lively debate with individuals on both sides of the aisle and beyond.
Our host, Adam Epstein, is a 12 time, Tony Award-winning former Broadway powerhouse producer turned political provocateur. Adam can go toe-to-toe with anyone on politics as he did on Trish Regan Primetime every Thursday night in 2019 as the lone non-conservative panelist, delivering his centrist perspective with grit, intellectual prowess, and undeniable charm.
Guests of the podcast range in perspective by design, and no two conversations are alike, but the one vitally important thing all of our guests have in common is they fight like hell for Democracy. Do you?
Executive Producer Dawn Sorokin, End House Media • Theme Song by @brettgarrisonepstein • Subscribe to the Dirty Moderate Nation Substack at www.dirtymoderate.com • Tweet the Show: @dirty_moderate
Episodes
161 episodes
Shabbos Kestenbaum
Shabbos Kestenbaum is a graduate student at Harvard University, researching the intersections between between public policy and contemporary Jewish life in the United States. Shabbos is the lead plaintiff against Harvard University alleging per...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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1:00:30
Michael Steele
When he was elected Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2003, Michael Steele made history as the first African American elected to statewide office; and again with his subsequent chairmanship of the Republican National Committee in 2009.A longti...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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1:17:58
Ron Reagan
Ron Reagan, the son of former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, grew up in Los Angeles and Sacramento while his father served as Governor of California from 1967-1975. After a brief career as a classical ballet dancer, Ron ...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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1:16:22
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John Pavlovitz
John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. John was one of our very first guests on Dirty Moderate over 2 years ago, and we were thrilled to spend time with this deep thinking, generous, loving, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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53:27
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Stella O'Malley
Stella is an Irish psychotherapist who had her own intense experience with gender as a child, and the resolution of her gender distress has made her curious about the wisdom of early intervention. As a result, in addition to facilitating a pare...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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1:04:26
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Reed Galen
Reed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, host of the Lincoln Project podcast and author of The HomeFront Substack, and a self-proclaimed C...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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1:00:52
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William Inboden
William Inboden is Professor and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and Peterson Senior Fellow with the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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57:21
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Alana Newhouse, Tablet Magazine
Alana Newhouse is an American writer and editor. She is the founder of Tablet magazine, a dynamic hub of Jewish life, which features news, essays, podcasts an...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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47:56
Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a conservative American journalist, columnist, commentator and best selling author. She is the Policy Editor of The Bulwark, and host of the
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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55:24
Iran vs. Israel
As the host of the podcast History of the Land of Israel, and his own YouTube show,
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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55:09
Mike Gonzalez of The Heritage Foundation
Mike Gonzalez is the Angeles T Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is a longtime journalist who currently writes for The Washington Examiner. Prior to that, he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, where...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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1:13:30
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Joseph Ellis
George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former col...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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1:12:06
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Yasmine Mohammed-Unveiled
As a young girl born in Canada, Yasmine Mohammed was born into a strict Islamic household. If she missed a word of her Koran readings, she was beat until her feet were bloody and raw. And the Canadian government said there was nothing they c...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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1:20:42
Damon Linker
Damon Linker, is a writer for the Atlantic and is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground”...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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1:01:05
David French
New York Times columnist David French joins Adam to discuss the role of religion in public life, and he offers up a unique portal into the pro-life movement, and its perils in the aftermath of Roe. David discusses the important role of the cour...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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1:07:03
Steve Schmidt
As arguably the pre-eminent voice warning about the dangers of Donald Trump, longtime political operative Steve Schmidt needs no introduction.But in case you have been abducted by aliens, Steve is the founder, author and host of Th...
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1:11:39
It's America or Trump; you can't have both
It’s not playtime in America. It’s high time in America that we all stand up for democracy. It’s gonna take all of us, especially independents like myself who will back Biden in November because that’s putting America first. It’s America ...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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18:36
Noah Rothman
Noah Rothman is an author and conservative thinker who is a Senior Writer for National Review, and whose recent bestseller,
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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1:21:29
Tina Nguyen-The MAGA Diaries
Tina Nguyen is a national correspondent for Puck covering the world of Donald Trump and the American right for their The Best...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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1:03:23
Philip K. Howard
Philip K. Howard is a lawyer, author and chair of Common Good (www.commongood.org), a nonpartisan organization aimed at replacing red tape with human responsibility and agency. In his discuss...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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51:37
James Kirchick
James Kirchick is a columnist for Tablet magazine, a writer at large for
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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1:14:56
Israel explained with Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
As the host of the podcast History of the Land of Israel, and his own YouTube show, Israel...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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1:01:24
Commentator and Press Secretary- Kaivan Shroff
At once passionate and eloquent, Kaivan Shroff may just be the Democratic Party’s most effective communicator. A onetime digital strategist for Hillary Clinton, Kaivan is now the Press Secretary for Dream for America, a Gen-Z movement for...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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52:05
Immigration breakdown-Special edition of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate
Before we all settle in to watch Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl, check out Adam’s recent discussion about immigration with the second best blonde of the day, his Executive Producer, Dawn Sorokin in this special edition of Stay Dirty, Stay M...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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30:28
Gazing into the 2024 Election with Kyle Kondik
With the 2024 election less than a year away, Kyle Kondick, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ nonpartisan election forecasting newsletter joins the podcast to look at our electora...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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46:10