Indoor Beach Chairs
This weekend’s edition of the Ruminant is a little bit like Christopher Hitchens’ D.C. apartment: a little bit of one thing right next to a little bit of the complete opposite thing. There’s a lot of ground covered in this, a practically record-breaking long episode of the podcast in which Jonah discusses his dad’s work for the wonderfully-acronymed NANA (North American Newspaper Alliance), dynamic scoring (a system in which this episode gets an A+), the necessity of telling the truth at a time in which even committed conservatives have a legitimate temptation to abandon their principles, the request from a listener for Goldberg Story Time, and much, much more.
Show Notes:
– Tim Russert interviews Bob Kerrey
– John Edwards’ bizarre stem cell comments
– CDC director “speaking in her personal capacity”
– TX Gov. Abbott lifts mask mandate
– Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
– Voir dire, or, as Advisory Opinions likes to say, “Vwahr Dahr”
– The Remnant with Steve Hayward and Charles Murray