Alcohol-Free Ruminations

Today’s refreshingly (or regrettably, depending on your perspective) sober Ruminant finds Jonah surrounded by boxes ...

Published April 17, 2021

Today’s refreshingly (or regrettably, depending on your perspective) sober Ruminant finds Jonah surrounded by boxes of books so nerdy that even Goodwill won’t take them. Preoccupied with thoughts on the strange state of the right, and the equally strange state of Joe Biden, he swiftly reaches levels of wonkiness so high that they could cure sleep deprivation. What’s the matter with the Claremont Institute? Will the oft-discussed “Liberal Fascism Revisited” piece ever be completed? And what new euphemism for a mild hangover will soon be sweeping the nation?

Show Notes:

– Jonah’s pre-coffee reproval of Ryan Williams

– The Wednesday G-File

– J.D. Vance’s Democrat-esque response to David French

– The decline of the Lincoln Fellowship

– The week’s first Remnant with Andy Smarick

– The week’s second Remnant with Mike Gallagher, which must be heard to be believed

– Horseshoe theory

– Last Friday’s G-File

– Jerry Nadler: “We are not packing the Supreme Court, we are unpacking it.”

– The Decadent Society, by Ross Douthat

– Biden wears a mask alone in Arlington National Cemetery

– Jonah: “Biden Puts Feelings Over Facts in Afghanistan Withdrawal”

– The Rectification of Names

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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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