Yesterday, Mona Charen and I recorded a new podcast. We called it “The Day After.” The day after what? The GOP presidential debate, or debates. So, we yak about that, of course. She has no use at all for the Trumpster. I have some use for him — as entertainment and novelty, if nothing else. He is something different under the sun (although the Oval Office is not for him). (Trump Tower is definitely for him.)

We then talk about Iran, of course. President Obama says that, if you oppose his deal, you’re with the “Death to America” crowd in Iran. In truth, he has made his deal with the “Death to America” crowd. Iran is a very big thing to get wrong, and when the American people reelected Barack Obama, they did a very big thing.

Mona and I also discuss the SAT — and some universities’ rejection of. The problem with the SAT is that some students do well on it and some students do less well. And we can’t have that. Inequality is incredibly frustrating. And treating people as people, rather than as members of racial and ethnic groups, is apparently verboten.

Senator Ted Cruz has proposed renaming the street outside the new Cuban embassy in D.C. after Oswaldo Payá, the great democracy leader whom the Castros almost certainly murdered. Mona and I talk about that. We also talk about a prize for global statesmanship bestowed on Kim Jong-un. And the prospect of Secretary John Kerry as Nobelist.

We end by appreciating Robert Conquest, whom George W. Bush, for one, appreciated. He hung the Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck in 2005. Bush was like that.

Again, our podcast is here, and please join us if you like.

P.S. When Bob received his Medal of Freedom, his co-honorees included Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, and ’retha. I love thinking of Bob in that company (and of them in his).