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What to make of the many news stories of the week – the resignation of James Bennet at The New York Times, the establishment of an autarkic city-state in Seattle, and more? On the Ruminant, Jonah sees some connecting threads between them all, such as the shrinking of large, trustworthy media institutions.

Show Notes:

–This Friday’s G-File

–“Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr.” collection, hosted for free by the Hoover Institution

–Robin Williams caricatures Buckley twice in “Aladdin”

–Jonah writing on the problem of liberal media bias and the “objectivity” issue

–“SAY IT! SAY IT!”

–Jonah’s column about Romney

–Ross Douthat’s op-ed about the Tom Cotton piece

–Monopsony

–Jonah and Hugh Hewitt’s disagreement about the Alt-Right from back in 2016

–Jonah: How the nationalists blew their chance

–The members-only Midweek G-File

–Ed Koch: “Now they must be punished.”

–The “stationary bandit”

–“Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law”

–The Hop Bird

–TommyJohn.com/remnant

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AEI scholar and China expert Oriana Skylar Mastro joins The Remnant to help us all understand the “Middle Kingdom” and its moves on the world stage. At a time like this, where the U.S. is retreating from its global responsibilities, how is China going to try to spin this into a positive outcome for themselves? Oriana has some ideas.

Show Notes:

–Oriana’s latest insights on China

–Oriana’s book, on the problems with peace talks

–Oriana’s piece on Taiwan’s future

–The sheer amount of effort that goes into Chinese censorship

–The controversial and confusing Russia/China joint air patrol

–The current state of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

–Weirdness on China’s border with India

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Tim Carney joins The Remnant, where he talks about some of the great shoe-leather reporting he’s been doing on the protests in the D.C. area. How many of the protesters are seriously out to cause trouble, and how many are there for good reasons? Also, what can be made of the “defund the police” movement, and where have our “little platoons” gone during the pandemic?

Show Notes:

–Tim’s work at the Washington Examiner

–Tim’s latest book, Alienated America

–Subsidiarity

–Tim’s Occupy reporting

–Cyclist in Montgomery County gets falsely accused

–The Treason of Epidemiologists

–Justin Amash’s tweet about epidemiologists

–DrinkHydrant.com promo code dingo for 25% off

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Jonah returns for the weekend Ruminant to address the growing unease he gets from the national protest movements. What’s going to be more damaging: the protests, or the massive overcorrection from the critics of the protests? With a little bit of perspective, it should be easy to see that everyone is manipulating data for their own ends – the epidemiologists, the protesters, and, of course, the Executive (to put it politely).

Show Notes:

–This week’s G-File

–Wednesday’s “news”letter

–Epidemiologists shift from social distance to social justice

–The Remnant Twitter AI asking for audience suggestions

–Epidemiologists insisting that you can’t go to church

–The heartening history of American racial attitudes over time

–Part of Jonah’s review of The Defining Moment

–The St. John’s Church photo op – already adorned with a Wikipedia page

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In this crazy time we’re living in, what’s the most accurate historical parallel? 1968? The 1420s? UMass Boston historian and all-around smart dude Vincent Cannato returns to the show for the second time to remind us of the scary-but-true reality: we are actually living in an unprecedented era. As the ancient faux-Chinese curse says, “May you live in interesting times.”

Show Notes:

–Vin’s books

–Just in case you’d like to get admitted to the Vatican archives

–Blue check-mark Twitter in an uproar over a Tom Cotton op-ed

–Jonah’s review of A Return to Modesty

–The Power Broker by Robert Caro

–The Confucius Institute, quite literally on the dole of their Chinese paymasters

–If you have a subscription, read the wonderfully-named Francois Furstenburg in the Chronicle

–Is Bill Barr right that history is written by the winners?

–Ronald Radosh’s Prophets on the Right

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How does liberty die? According to Padmé, with thunderous applause. According to The New York Times, with an ill-timed op-ed ghostwritten by Putin. And according to John Pitney, professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna, maybe with Trump? John joins the show to play Remnant bingo, but also to make the case that Trump’s oft-praised abrasiveness isn’t actually very American — and that his behavior usually stifles liberty instead of promoting it.

Show Notes:

–Pitney’s book, Un-American: The Fake Patriotism of Donald J. Trump

–Pitney’s piece on Obama and Trump

–Richard Weaver, Ideas have Consequences

–The Federalist Papers, free and online

–So this is how liberty dies

–P.J. O’Rourke talks about Hillary

–Trump wants to protect Article XII

–Claremont’s 10 years in review

–Pitney’s book After Reagan: Bush, Dukakis, and the 1988 Election

–‘We’re dying at the box office,’ Schwarzenegger tells GOP

–East/West coast Straussians feuds

–Pitney being interviewed about expanding the House

–Elaine Kamarck talking about her role as a superdelegate

–Vladimir Putin’s uh, op-ed in the Times?

–Jonah’s appearance with Andrew Klavan

–TommyJohn.com/remnant for 25% off site wide

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Jonah ruminates on why we can’t have nice things, darling. A journey that takes us from Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals to John Courtney Murray’s The Return to Tribalism. From the cigar shop to the primitive Greek usage of the word “idiot.”

Show Notes:

–Jonah’s piece Cigars: A Love Story or Two

–Jonah’s piece Democracy in the Tobacconist’s

–Sen. Ben Sasse’s civics lesson

–This week’s G-File

–Wednesday’s “news”letter

–How to educate an American webinar

–John Courtney Murray’s The Return to Tribalism

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