My Kind of Town

Jonah’s still in Chicago for today’s Ruminant, and he isn’t terribly comfortable with the pre-summer ...

Published April 9, 2022

Jonah’s still in Chicago for today’s Ruminant, and he isn’t terribly comfortable with the pre-summer weather. Still, severe cold in spring is less frustrating than our political dysfunction, and Jonah has plenty to discuss on that front. After exploring the distinction between disinformation and misinformation and the state of American media bias, he turns to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, Florida’s controversial education bill, and why misusing the term “groomer” is both immoral and tactically foolish for Republicans. Ready your bingo cards for a predictably freewheeling ride.

Show Notes:

– The Remnant with Megan McCardle

– Jonah on disinformation at the UChicago Institute of Politics

– Soviet disinformation

– The paradoxes of media bias

– Jonah on the Kavanaugh allegations

– Anne Applebaum’s UChicago panel

– Anne Applebaum on Hunter Biden’s laptop

– David French: “Against the ‘Groomer’ Smear”

– The Remnant with Adam White

– How Title IX became a political weapon

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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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