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Today’s Remnant combines features of both a weekend Ruminant and a “supplemental” episode, like the ...

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Today’s Remnant combines features of both a weekend Ruminant and a “supplemental” episode, like the program’s recent incursion into social Darwinism. Jonah begins with further ruminations from his Wednesday “news”letter, replete with the observations that certain opponents of Israel veer into weirdly anti-Semitic territory when given the opportunity. Speaking of anti-Semites: Marx! After the rumination, Jonah reads from a great Commentary piece on the anti-capitalist tendencies of medieval antisemitism, and how such sentiments then transition into a more modern communistic ideology that nonetheless retained the suspicion of Jews, usury, and labor economics.

Show notes:

–      The Wednesday “news”letter on antisemitism

–      Hamas’ Iron Dome: “Don’t Fire Rockets at Israel”

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    Isaac Alexander

    The link to the Game of Thrones labor theory of value isn't working. Can someone post that?

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    Ben Connelly

    Really liked this episode. I like these “supplemental” episodes, especially this sort of combination of “supplemental” and solo Ruminant. While it’s interesting to hear you talk about recent events and recap some of your points from the columns and G Files (which I read), I appreciate much more the deep dive into topics (historical or otherwise) that I and many other listeners may not always know much about.

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  3. RB

    Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this episode.

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  4. DocHeartless

    I listened to this podcast after Sarah and Steve's interview with Chip Roy. Yeah, I'll take Jonah any day of the week over someone like Roy. That latter pod about Jan 6 was hard for me to get through -- a tour de force of prevarication. It did give me some great insight into Jonah's last podcast with Jim Geraghty, though. It cracked me up watching Jonah dance around the issue of responding to Geraghty's "we just want to move on from Jan 6 because it'll cost us some seats otherwise." Um, how about our elected leaders speak the truth occasionally, Mr. Geraghty? I get that dwelling on Trump doesn't do the GOP any favors, but when will they realize that lying to the base, inflaming their passions, misdirecting them with culture war issues, etc... played a role in this entire phenomenon? Geraghty bemoaned the state of the average GOP base voter. Ahem . . . don't you think the endless cavalcade of Washington insiders, politicians, and pundits doing largely what he advised the current GOP to do played a role in warping them? Shove an avalanche of misdirection, what-about-ism, dog whistles, and rage porn through a 24/7 cable news channel at your voters and, what, you expect you're going to help create a wise and responsible electorate?

    This pod was excellent, Jonah - you are singlehandedly rewriting my AP World and AP European history curricula.

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  5. Susan Laughlin

    One of my favorite episodes. I sent it to friends and saved it for my files. Excellent review. Thank you.

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    Richard Grebenc

    A particularly enlightening episode. It was as if I attended a lecture on Jews and anti-Semitism. I don't recall any previous episode in which I learned more.

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    Tracie

    Found it interesting that what we once called "commerce" we now call "capitalism." Crazy to think that once only farm laborers, hereditary nobility, and priestly classes were regarded as unsordid.

    Also, those passages from Luther is making me rethink what a friend said about being raised "fundamentalist Lutheran." I imagined it couldn't be all that hardcore. Burning down synagogues to show the Lord you're a good Christian? That's Taliban worthy.

    This discussion of the Christian, pre-capitalist conception of the non-fungible, sanctified labor of an individual man brings this passage to mind:

    "It seemed to me that Adam must once have left Paradise in this manner; Eden had become a specter for him, and light was where a stony field had to be tilled in the sweat of his brow."

    It's Jung's description of a dream, which he interpreted as a fragile light symbolizing individual consciousness. Find it interesting that he connected consciousness and labor.

    https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/03/21/carl-jung-on-the-importance-of-the-little-light-of-consciousness-known-as-the-ego/

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    Tracie

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      Tracie

      That was my dog's fault.

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    Mkapnick

    Love me some Ruminant and my favorites are when Jonah is plum tired. I don't know why maybe something happens in his noggin when he is tired but he seems to venture off in this direction or that and those little walks through his brain are just so dang interesting. This was illuminating and topical and sobering and important. Thank you Jonah. (side note: please don't construe my comment as a complaint about the morning Rumiannt or the gameshow Rumiant with "the kids". Just a compliment on what use to be the late friday version of the Ruminant).

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  10. linda

    I loved this pod. It covered a ton of history and I'm wondering if Jonah did this off the top of his head because if he did that is pretty impressive.
    As for Stirewalt.....can't wait.
    The Dispatch has gathered a very impressive staff in a very short time. Good on em.

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