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Isaac Chotiner

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“Okay, a big Houston Rockets fan. Yeah, sorry about that one. But no, I'm a big Houston Rockets fan and very. You know, very anxious fan. Don't handle my emotions well about it. So, yeah.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“sort of what's the word I'm looking for sort of hyper there's so many questions and you're asking him so many questions and he's switching subjects all the time right anyway this probably would not work I'm almost sure it would not work but it was the only only idea I had for how to make a Trump interview interesting”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I'll just say I don't know, but I will answer that question by saying I've often thought about what I would do if I interviewed Trump. And I don't know what I would do. But I think the one thing that I've thought of would be interesting is just to choose one small subject and just ask him a million questions about that subject, whether it would sort of be like Trump and race or Trump and women or Trump and his parents. And just to sort of go on one specific thing and to steer clear of what was in the news that day or whatever else and hope that by kind of nailing down you could get something and focus him in a way by asking the same question about the same subject because I think that there's something about the kind of”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The question of just Trump is certainly unique in most ways, but there are similar politicians or politicians with similar kind of ideological affiliations winning across the globe and how much is that sort of a permanent thing or not. So I think those two questions, I think. Definitely interests me. It's something I've talked a lot about in interviews, done a lot of interviews about. And so I think that that sort of hangs over most of the intellectual questions I have about where we're headed.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I would say that Ukraine and Gaza are two things. But beyond that, I think, yeah, we touch on this earlier about the question of what's going to happen. You know, there's the next president, he's going to be making regulatory decisions based on how much people come and kiss up to him. Just where the country's headed seems like, you know, in some ways the big question. And that's a question of where the Republican Party's headed. And I think the kind of question, at least in my mind, that hangs over kind of everything. I feel like I think about this in some version every 20 minutes is like once Trump is no longer on the scene or once he's no longer president, is the country going to revert to some sort of normalcy in whatever that meant pre-Trump. And I don't know the answer, but there's so many ways in which I think about that. And it's also related to...”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh God, you keep asking me if there's anyone I feel like I have to talk to and I realize I don't have good answers for these questions. Most of the people I consider the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination, if you were just to look at the Vegas odds, I think they're all pretty interesting as possible interview, you know, Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro. Ocasio-Cortez, whoever, you know, these people, I think all of them are pretty interesting, actually”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. You know, I'm interested in kind of this generational and ideological divide that seems to be showing up or will show up in certain primaries. Maine and Senate race being an example of that. Obviously, some of these questions showed up in the New York mayoral election. And I'm just interested in broader questions about where the Democrats should be going, what is the right political strategy, how they're going to go about winning races in purple or red states for the Senate, which are going to have to start doing if they want to ever get the Senate back. I think my gut feeling is that these issues are kind of going to be largely papered over in 2026 because it's an off-year election and the president's party usually suffers defeats and that Democrats, whatever they do, are probably going to have a pretty good election. But I think for the 2028 primary, these issues will certainly come to the fore in a more kind of urgent way.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I mean, maybe this gets to what a version of what we were talking about earlier. I don't know if this is a great answer, but I'm just more interested in terms of just to mention Ukraine and Gaza to ongoing conflicts. I'm less interested about White House decision making and talking to the principles there than I think I would have been. I think part of the reason I've been interested in talking to Biden people in the last year about Gaza policy is that it felt their policy, which left a lot to be desired in my opinion. It was interesting to talk through how they were thinking about it in a way that I just sort of, I want to read investigative stories. Like I want to read investigative stories about the Trump administration's business deals in the Middle East or Steve Witcoff's business deals in Eastern Europe. I'm less interested in sort of hearing from principles, you know, talking to Marco Rubio about how he's thinking about Gaza. That sort of interview and...”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of an effort to act as if he is going to do what Trump wants, but there's never quite enough follow-through. And so Netanyahu can sort of keep getting what he wants from Trump, which I assume is continuation of the American-Israeli relationship, support for Netanyahu politically, and dragging his feet on any sort of long-term solution in Gaza. And like I said, I think Putin correctly perceives that this is the case too, that he can sort of make noises about peace or call Trump once every few weeks. Therefore, keep up the pressure on the Ukrainians without having to truly commit to a peace deal. And so I think this is a smart way to deal with Trump in both cases. And I think it's what we'll sort of continue to see some version of the status quo dragging on and on and on.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, there is going to be an election in Israel later in this year, so that will be interesting, which is an important election for Netanyahu, variety of reasons having to do with his trial of corruption trial and political legacy and so on. In terms of that relationship, I thought that what happened at the White House was indicative of it in the sense that, you know, Trump is shown a willingness to push Netanyahu and the Israelis in short-term ways, especially earlier in 2025, about coming to some sort of ceasefire in Gaza, even though, as you say, it hasn't exactly held in some ways, but certainly not in others. People are still dying. You know, to me, what that sort of showed was that I think Netanyahu, and I think this is true of Putin to some extent too, correctly perceives that he can sort of make a somewhat”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So yeah, I mean, this is something that maybe one of my colleagues at the magazine will do, but a sort of profile of that father-son dynamic seems psychologically rich, to say the least.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was about to say, Larry, actually, I should have thought that that would have been a good answer. He does the dying as goatee thing, which I find interesting.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I mean, Alphonse probably less than Barry Weiss or David Ellison. But, you know, just because I feel like Fonzie's perspective is clear. But yeah, Barry Weiser David Ellison. I mean, David Ellison, I think, is a very interesting figure and would definitely enjoy interviewing him.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I'm fortunate to not have had those pressures either. When I worked at the New Republic, we had a owner who was crazy and bigoted. Marty Peretz was his name and not a very nice guy. And so there were pressures that came down, but it wasn't of the sort that you're referring to. Yeah, it's really bleak and depressing times. And I think that the Trump White House has very smartly understood that the way to sort of exert some pressure on the media is not to, you know, not to do what he did in his first term, which is to sort of berate people, but to, you know, make regulatory approvals conditional on, you know, kissing the ring or whatever else. And I think that that's definitely very scary and, yeah, depressing. I wish I had something more interesting to say about it. I mean, it's bleak and quite worrisome.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just, you know, I'm very interested in India travel there a lot and written about it some. And so he's always interested me.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fair. You know, so yeah, there have been, I'm trying to think though, who else? I was able to interview Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. So that was interesting. He was on my list. People I really want to talk to. I don't know. Sean Connery's dead. My list is quickly getting smaller.”
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“Talk to the corpse, yeah. Narendra Modi is someone who I've tried to get for a long time, not going to happen. Tony Blair is one. You're not Mr.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. Yeah. No, I mean, I was just going through a bunch of Republican senators who I'd been trying to get at various times and haven't had any luck with that. And I mean, I've stopped trying as much as much as I used to, just because it's just so hard to get Republican politicians.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I think what you said is accurate and it's going to be harder and harder to get access. And that, I think, is a real problem”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, part of the reason you get into media is because you're interested in engaging with it and you want it to be good. And we all have like our mini dramas with the newspapers and magazines we've been reading for 25 years and we want them to be better and we love them and whatever else.”
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“Also, and this is not about the Ben Smith stuff, there's just, you know, there's a lot of terrible journalism out there and seems worth paying attention to. Pointing out. Making it better, yeah.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, Sudan or Gaza or wherever else, Ukraine. And nobody cares. Nobody's paying attention. It feels like with journalists, they pay attention to what other journalists say. And I hope, you know, certainly I take criticism from other journalists. And take it seriously. And hopefully other journalists do too. So maybe it's a way of feeling like you can actually be heard in a way that you can't in other ways.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You mean why I like, we'll criticize other reporters sometimes Geez. It's a good question. You know, sometimes it's probably just being dumb, but it kind of, it's a way of engaging with the world. I don't know. It's probably too critical, too critical a way of engaging with the world, but it's a way I kind of engage with the world. And because, you know, maybe my pop psychological explanation of this would be that, you know, media tends to listen to other media criticism, I feel like, whereas, I mean, I wouldn't do this for various reasons, but you know, I could tweet out that, you know, I'm upset about what's happening and...”
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“Well, I'm not even saying that. It's like it's more just that it's just not that interesting to read people arguing about whether the Earth is flat. And there's something so absurd about it.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A couple kind of trumpish people. One thing about what's happening in the world now with Trump and what's happening in the country is, you know, in my opinion, it's all these things. It's horrific and it's depressing and so on. But it's also ridiculous. And a lot of the people defending him in public are ridiculous. And there's only so much you can do about this that's dead serious where, you know, it's like arguing that the earth is flat. And so I try and sometimes those interviews that I feel like would be more tense with those types of people to try and make them funny or tongue-in-cheek, whatever, because, you know, as I said, there's only so much you can get it pounding the ground.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, no, I guess what I mean is that it's like, you know, you could get into a debate with someone and, you know, then shake hands afterwards and it doesn't feel tense. And sometimes it does. And I guess just sometimes like Corinne Jean-Pierre, I thought she was very polite answering the questions. And even though I was asking somewhat aggressive questions, it just didn't read. There have been interviews that I've done that did actually feel tense. Newt Gingrich once when I interviewed him.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's interesting. I mean, I sometimes think the interviews read more tense than they are, or sometimes maybe it's that I just have more of a tolerance for being uncomfortable in a phone conversation than other people. They don't feel that way to me usually, even when they read that way. So, you know, I don't know. It's a good question. I should think more about that.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, this goes back. Again, I think if more stuff was in person, it might shake me more. But over the phone, it doesn't really. Most of the time, these interviews are not particularly, I mean, the two you brought up, Cass Sunstein and Corrine Jean-Pierre. I think Careen Jean-Pierre felt that, you know, she and I were not seeing eye to eye about some of the things she was saying, but the interview didn't feel tense, and neither did the Cass Sunstein one at all. They read tense.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I should also say, you know, it's also to go back to the thing about listening to other people. It's like when the interview is going on, you're listening to the other person, but you're also thinking about what how much time is left and what else you have to ask. And you're also thinking about these other things about the context of the interview. So sometimes you don't feel like you actually got exactly and you want to be clear. And so that's often the case too. Maybe I'm telling on myself by saying that, you know, I want to, you know, not totally sure what the other person said, but because you're often trying to do a million things at once, that's definitely the case.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, no, I think I probably am doing that. Sometimes I am doing that to sort of get them to sort of say up front what it seems to me that they're hinting at or suggesting because sometimes they don't want to say it up front.”
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“Looked up to it. I got all of his books right behind me on the shelf. It looked up to him a lot and still do as a writer, if not as a person. That was definitely hard.”
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“Answer a question with nothing, I think nothing about this, you know, that sort of thing, which for me, and as someone who, uh,”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you mean, I'm trying to think about, I'm sure there are stories. I mean, the most intimidated I ever was in an interview was I interviewed the novelist VS Nipal at his house in London, and he was, this was pretty early in my interviewing career, and he was quite bullying of me. You know, I think it actually made for a pretty good interview that because his personality and bullying me the way he kind of did everyone came across. And in fact, I've often thought that, you know, if I had been 10 years older, I might have been less bullied, which may have actually made for a less good interview in that case.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, you know, I mean, I guess you could say that unconsciously people you're aligned with, you're probably less aware that they're saying talking points because it's something you agree with. So it seems less propagandistic or whatever else. So I think that's absolutely something that if you're more aligned with someone that you're talking to or you think you are, that it's definitely worth trying to remind yourself that you may be not paying as close attention as you should to them being propagandistic or saying talking points or whatever else”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's absolutely a goal is to try and get people who I feel like sometimes I'll be thinking during an interview like I don't actually say this to people, but sometimes I'll be thinking during an interview like, you know, if you just repeat the same talking point for six times in a row, we're just going to cut it. So why are you even telling me this? You know, we've heard this five other times in the interview.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's a good question. I definitely feel like when I'm talking to public figures or politicians that what I want to do is get them to say some things that they haven't said a million times before. And one helpful way of doing that is to look at previous interviews that they've given and think like where would I have tried to ask a follow-up that the interviewer didn't, you know, same is true for my interviews whenever I read them. I think, oh, I should have asked this follow-up. And I, you know, I forgot.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, is that I think that, you know, people have more of a sense of who you are if you have a podcast or you have whatever else. And so I don't feel like I'm reckoning with that too often when it comes to actually doing interviews.”
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“Yeah, I mean, most people I interview don't know about me or my work or whatever else. Most people don't read bylines. And, you know, I think this is also one of the advantages maybe of doing print interviews rather than...”
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“You know, certain types of personal questions, people's consensual sexual behavior, I think that I would not ask someone to criticize their place of work or colleagues unless I thought that their place of work or colleagues was doing something quite horrible or unethical in some way. I wouldn't say like, you know I think so and so writer at the New York Times is a bad writer. What do you have to say about that to someone at the New York Times? It's like they're not going to criticize their colleague, nor should they. So something like that. But broadly speaking, that's not what we're talking about.”
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“There are questions I wouldn't ask. There's some types of questions I do think are unfair, and I try to stay away from those.”
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“I waited. Yeah, I waited because I wanted the interview to kind of have a narrative arc to it. But yeah, no. So I do think about those questions. But generally, I think gotcha questions are fine.”
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“Yeah, exactly. But, you know, to me, I don't quite know a different way of going about that. And as I said, if, you know, he has a response, he's welcome to give it. But to me.”
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“Lack of respect shown to them and why this was an important issue. And I wanted to talk about that, but also I wanted to talk about his support for some Frenchmen who'd been accused of sexual misconduct. I believe it was Roman Plansky and Dominique Strascon, if I remember correctly. And so the only way I could think to sort of set this up was asking the questions about women in the Islamic world and what he'd written about them early on and then bring up the Polanski stuff later on in the interview. And I do think that it has a gotcha feel.”
2026-01-05 · On with Kara Swisher · Isaac Chotiner on Confrontation, Curiosity, and Being the 'Interview Assassin' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, good. I don't really know what a gotcha question is. If people have some hypocrisies or contradictions, then they can say, yeah, I'm a hypocrite or they can say, yeah, that's a contradiction, or they can explain it, or they can say, this is why you're wrong about this. But for me, at least, I think highlighting those things is a really interesting way of looking at where people's blind spots are and also where kind of the blind spots of different intellectual traditions or political parties or whatever else is. And so I find that a really interesting thing to focus on. And I think it's important to try and set it up. I mean, I was thinking about this because I did an interview with the French political philosopher Bernard Henri Lavy a number of years ago. And he had written a bunch of stuff about women in the Islamic world and the”
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“Yeah, I mean, you know, I think this gets to the question of gotcha questions, which is a phrase I don't like because you don't either.”
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“Yeah, exactly. We all have contradictions and we all have hypocrisies and they can be uncomfortable to be pushed on, but they're often helpful to be pushed on, I think, not just intellectually in your personal life, whatever else, because I think it helps, you know, it's good for people to be aware of that since we all have it. And so I thought it was.”
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“If you count his record in places other than America, one of the most illiberal figures in recent American history. And so I wanted to kind of talk about that. And I wanted to sort of bring those two things together in the interview. And again, it's not to make someone look foolish. It's just I felt that that was an important thing to bring up.”
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“Yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, I guess I don't think of it as look foolish. I mean, the part of the Sunstein interview that maybe you're referring to or were alluding to is this part about Henry Kissinger, which came up at the end of the interview and his friendship with Henry Kissinger. And I don't think of it as that Cass Sunstein should look foolish. I thought of it as like, here is a guy who's written a book about liberalism and Henry Kissinger is sort of the figure pre-Trump that I think of as being.”
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“In that case, I did the Korean Jean-Pierre, because I guess people were interested in some media organizations reached out for comment about stuff. And I guess I followed the afterlife of that in part because the same reason that I did the interview, which is that I was very interested in how, and maybe this gets back to, you know, me being able to express my opinion, I was very interested in how the Biden people were reckoning with. What has happened in the last year and what happened in”
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“I haven't had that really happen. I mean, there was one guy who said that the interview was more or less fake, I think. But I guess that is always a concern. But again, it's one reason you have to tape the interviews.”
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