Busting Out the Heidegger
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:
–“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
–Ross Douthat’s op-ed about the Tom Cotton piece
–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.”
–“Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law”
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