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Today’s Ruminant finds Jonah irritated by back pain, enamored with California roller coasters, and concerned ...

Published October 23, 2021

Today’s Ruminant finds Jonah irritated by back pain, enamored with California roller coasters, and concerned for the health of his loyal spaniel (send her your love!). It also features a lengthy exploration of whether China can still be politically liberalized, why the terms and conditions of Trump’s new social media network are so funny, and how executive privilege actually functions. Stick around until the end for updates about new features on The Dispatch, and a preview of upcoming guests.

Show Notes:

– The House votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt

– Advisory Opinions explores January 6

– Jonah’s brief history of executive privilege

– Gimme some truth

– Fresh craziness from J.D. Vance

– Klon Kitchen on the dangers of China’s missile tests

– Lipset’s modernization theory

– Mike Pompeo on Special Report

– “We welcome stiff competition”

– Visions of China on The Dispatch Podcast

– The moral equivalent of war

– The Friday G-File

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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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