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After kicking off today’s Ruminant with a few reflections on his pesky first name, Jonah ...

Published July 9, 2022

After kicking off today’s Ruminant with a few reflections on his pesky first name, Jonah soon embarks on a thorough analysis of Joe Biden’s rise to the presidency and the intellectual insecurities that often come packaged with the Oval Office. An eclectic potpourri follows as Jonah explores the distinction between assassination and murder, his relationship with a top British cabinet official, and the hypocrisy of European nations regarding the abortion debate. It all ends with a more lighthearted assessment of the differences between Hollywood movies and real life.

Show Notes:

– The Remnant with Noah Phillips

– The Remnant with Noah Rothman

– David Bernstein’s work for Reason

– Dana Milbank: “Give Biden a Break”

– Mitt Romney: “America is in Denial”

– Vice presidents who became presidents themselves

– The Shinzo Abe assassination

– Boris Johnson’s resignation

– Assasination versus murder

– Michael Gove

– The EU condemns Dobbs

– The Remnant with Megan McArdle

– Jonah’s twitter thread on political movies

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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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