On our latest podcast, Mona Charen and I have a guest: Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal. He has written a book, Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed. There is enough in this subject for 100 podcasts, but we make do with approximately half a one.

In our second half, Mona and I traverse many subjects, including the Obama administration’s hostility to Israel (or at least to its current prime minister, the virtual antithesis of Obama). We also, of course, talk about the elections. I’m very excited about them, as a feverish Republican partisan. Mona is the cooler and more intellectual influence in our show. But even she’s kind of eager.

Wednesday morning, however, I’ll start fretting about 2016, because the presidency is the big enchilada. Senate, Schmenate. I may even start fretting on Tuesday night. (Hell, I started in early 2013, once the trauma of the November election wore off, sort of.)

Our ending music is Halloweeny: the Danse macabre of Saint-Saëns. The other pieces turned to at Halloween are The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Dukas), Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Rachmaninoff), and Totentanz (Liszt). You could also throw in there the Suggestion diabolique (Prokofiev). Readers may have other favorites, too.