ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Barbarians is a new weekly news podcast from Tablet Magazine, featuring columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, Scroll writer Park MacDougald, and editor at large Liel Leibovitz, as well as other voices from Tablet. Each week, the Barbarians will do what Barbarians do best: tell the blunt truth, have a bunch of fun, and set fire to the very dumb ideas you hear everywhere else you turn.
Update frequency:
every 8 days
Average audio length:
60 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
16 episodes
since June 4, 2026
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Liel Leibovitz, Lee Smith, Tony Badran, and Park MacDougald were joined by Tablet’s Jacob Siegel to discuss his latest book, The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, along with the usual assortment of politics, culture, and general civilizational mayhem.
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz is joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald to discuss how a bunch of kick-ass Israelis stormed the cockpit of a FlyDubai flight and prevented another 9/11-style attack.
How did this airborne drama go dow…
Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz is joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald to Trump's UN speech, and whether it was courageous leadership or just more empty bluster.
Does talk about destroying Iran really move anyone anymore? And …
Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz was joined by columnist Lee Smith and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald, along with special guest Laura Loomer.
The political activist talked to the Barbarians about why she changed her mind about the war in Ukraine, and how she went from sharing Russian pr…
Join us this Thursday, September 10th, at 10 a.m. Eastern, when the Barbarians are live on Zoom for our subscribers.Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz is joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald to commemorate a quarter of a century since t…
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Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz is joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald to make sense of the Vice President's talk to the Republican Jewish Coalition and parse his strange statement about blood libels and antisemit…
This week, Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz is joined by columnist Lee Smith and news editor Tony Badran to make sense of another week of political freak shows, Middle Eastern maneuvering, and institutional cowardice.
What does Dan Bilzerian’s failed congressional run tell us about the onli…
This week, Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz was joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald to discuss the third-world-ification of the United States.
Is New York really “Habibi City,” as a now-viral magazine cover claims? Is a hit-and-run …
This week, Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz was joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and senior writer Park MacDougald to unpack another week in which Iran continues to dominate the headlines and midterm politics descend into further mayhem.
Is Trump neg…
On Tuesday, July 28 at 10 a.m. Eastern, we held a live recording of Tablet’s Barbarians podcast, an exclusive event for Tablet subscribers. This week, Tablet editor-at-large Liel Leibovitz was joined by columnist Lee Smith, news editor Tony Badran, and Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald to previe…
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