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Jonah attempts to avoid the straitjacket while The Fair Jessica is away, so he decides to spend an hour talking to himself in a dark basement. He goes through a number of topics to make even the most excitable eggheads nauseated, from the fad of stay-at-home girlfriends (why milk the cow ladies?) to Biden’s irresponsible dog ownership. Jonah regains sanity for a second to talk about the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling before hallucinating about rodents and going gonzo on Tucker’s trip to Russia.

Show Notes:

–Stay-at-Home Girlfriends Are Having a Moment

– Brad Wilcox on The Remnant

– Listen to Advisory Opinions on Alabama’s IVF issue

– Biden’s German shepherd banished from the White House

– Jonah’s G-File: Nations, Nation-States, and Nationalism

– Scott Lincicome: Unfrozen Caveman Tucker

– The Lewis brothers on The Remnant

Marriage is a fundamental institution, so why is it under attack from both ends of the political spectrum? In his new book, Get Married, Brad Wilcox—a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the University of Virginia—makes the case that getting married and starting a family is the best way of leading a prosperous life. But how can law and culture encourage Americans to tie the knot? Why has public interest in marriage declined? And how does marriage make people better off?

Show Notes:

– Brad’s page at AEI

– Brad’s new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

– Brad: “Marriage Is Key to Living Your Best Life”

– Brad: “Why You Should Get Married”

– The Remnant with Russ Roberts

– Elizabeth Grace Matthew: Can People Be Persuaded to ‘Get Married’? 

On today’s episode of The Remnant, Jonah’s disdain for the elderly leads him to step into the intellectual octagon with a man nine days his senior: novelist and CNN host Jake Tapper. Jake’s new show, United States of Scandal, takes a darkly comedic look at some of America’s wildest political controversies, and Jonah’s eager to discuss all the sordid details while keeping the nudity as tasteful as possible. Is Washington full of conspiracies? How many chemicals were in Larry King’s hair? And do scandals even matter anymore in the age of Trump?

Show Notes:

– Jake’s new show, United States of Scandal

– Jake on the origins of the series

– Watch this episode on YouTube

Having woken up to the Alexei Navalny news, Jonah spends this Ruminant thinking through what the Russian opposition leader’s death might portend. From tzars and (real) settler colonialism to useful idiots a-la Tucker Carlson, the good listener should expect a very Russian episode. Пожалуйста. A more patient listener will also hear Jonah revisiting his conversation with the Lewis brothers, due to somewhat popular demand.

Show Notes:

-The Lewis brothers on The Remnant

-Kevin Kosar on The Remnant

-Bernie Sanders on Soviet chandeliers

-Dan McLaughlin: “Tucker Carlson’s Lowest Moment“

-Kevin D. Williamson: “The Full Duranty“

-WSJ: “China’s Shipyards Are Ready for a Protracted War. America’s Aren’t”

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Once again, Jonah has abandoned his Remnant duties to spend the week nibbling on sponge cake while watching the sun bake. Fortunately, Chris Stirewalt, America’s favorite simple country pundit, is on hand to take control of the program. He’s joined by Ruy Teixiera, author of Where Have All the Democrats Gone? and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss what the wretched state of our parties could mean for the 2024 election. The GOP has spent the last decade having an extended nervous breakdown, so why haven’t the Democrats used this opportunity to become the dominant party? For that matter, why can’t Democratic candidates get a grip on working class voters? And why can’t all politicians just be normal?

Show Notes:

– Ruy’s AEI webpage

– Ruy’s Substack, The Liberal Patriot

– Ruy’s latest book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

– Ruy’s The Emerging Democratic Majority

Is there really such a thing as left and right? Scholars Hyrum and Verlan Lewis don’t think so. In their book, The Myth of Left and Right, the brothers argue that this generalization is undermining sophisticated political discourse. And on today’s episode of The Remnant, they join Jonah to explain why, when two tribes go to war, a point really is all you can score. Do terms like conservative and liberal really have any use? Why are we having an election between two wretched candidates? How do industrialized democracies around the world think about the political spectrum? And will Jonah ever get sick of talking about Liberal Fascism?

Show Notes:

– Hyrum’s blog

– Verlan on the myth of ideological polarization

– Hyrum and Verlan’s book, The Myth of Left and Right

Tired and sunburnt, Jonah chimes in from somewhere in the Virgin Islands to share his thoughts (ramblings?) on the little he knows from the news of the past week. But stay tuned for a crossover of his appearance on Kevin Williamson’s podcast, How The World Works.