Today’s Ruminant finds Jonah preparing for an epic journey to the Pacific Northwest, and he’d appreciate podcast recommendations for the long and lonely trip. With Thanksgiving approaching, he’s feeling grateful, but he’s also concerned about the conservative movement’s gradual shift away from the classical liberalism embedded in American culture. How do societies emerge? Will mankind ever learn not to immanentize the eschaton? And has American life officially become crazier than a late night Japanese game show? 

Show Notes:

- Wednesday’s regrettable G-File, released to the masses

- The Remnant with Will Saletan

- Nockian nerdery

- Nine Days and the making of an existential crisis

- Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order

- That time Bernie Sanders got kicked out of a commune

- I, Pencil

- The ultimate throwdown

- Paul Gosar gets censured