Privilege and Principles

Today’s Ruminant is all about privilege, and Jonah has many nerdy thoughts on the subject. ...

Published December 18, 2021

Today’s Ruminant is all about privilege, and Jonah has many nerdy thoughts on the subject. He also offers plenty of anecdotes about day drinking, a few meditations on Build Back Better hitting a brick wall, and a disquisition on the nature of consumerism. How many varieties of privilege are there in America today? Why do certain people tend toward conservatism? And why has Jonah finally decided to open up about Fox News? Brace your bingo cards, too, because Jonah still can’t stop complaining about Theodor Adorno and his mythical authoritarian personality.

Show Notes:

– The Morning Dispatch breaks down the Build Back Better stalemate

– Let’s talk about privilege

– The Remnant with Sally Satel

– Sumptuary laws

– Veblen goods

– Huntington’s “Conservatism as an Ideology”

– Sally Satel: “The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left”

– Politics and Prose lawyers up

– Harvard stops requiring SAT scores

– Jonah opens up about Fox

– Matthew Mehan’s new children’s book

– AEI Today

– Give someone a Dispatch subscription this Christmas

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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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