{"podcast":{"title":"Ask a Jew","slug":"ask-a-jew-4527225","podcast_index_feed_id":4527225,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/866082.rss","website_url":"https://askajew.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/866082/e80727454b6f3e553adfcd24d6d28e9a.jpg","author":"Ask a Jew","episode_count":211,"summary":"Increasing Jewish representation in media","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T00:18:47.088075+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-a-jew-4527225"},"episode":{"title":"The People's Republic of NYC - With Rafael Mangual","slug":"the-people-s-republic-of-nyc-with-rafael-mangual","published_at":"2026-07-07T11:22:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-a-jew-4527225/the-people-s-republic-of-nyc-with-rafael-mangual","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-a-jew-4527225","url":"https://askajew.substack.com/p/the-peoples-republic-of-nyc-with","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204962864/37e083e289916171f32fda6dcb391b55.mp3","summary":"Rafael Mangual is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal , and authour of the book Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most . He joins us to explain what the HECK is going on with the DSA in New York, what it was like to grow up as a Dominican-Puerto Rican New Yorker with a cop for a father, what BLM and the Defund the Police movement got wrong, and what’s in store for all of us in Mamdani’s New York. Follow Rafael on X , and don’t forget to check out the episode on YouTube as well! Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!! You rock. Here are a few things we love about you, in no particular order. What are we missing? * Amazon Prime * Sam Harris * Air Conditioning * Peanut Butter * Movie Theatre soda * Yellowstone National Park (actually, all national parks) * The Blue Angels * Turning right on red * Halloween * Women that call you “Hon” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askajew.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Rafael Mangual is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal , and authour of the book Criminal (In)Justi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4731,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ask-a-jew-4527225/episodes/the-people-s-republic-of-nyc-with-rafael-mangual/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-a-jew-4527225/the-people-s-republic-of-nyc-with-rafael-mangual.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}