Senator Shoshana, Twitter Primadonna

Shoshana Weissmann is a Renaissance woman, and only at age 27: she’s the head of ...

Published March 26, 2020

Shoshana Weissmann is a Renaissance woman, and only at age 27: she’s the head of digital media at R Street Institute, a policy fellow specializing in occupational licensing, and an institution unto herself on social media. She brings a blessed breath of brevity to this episode of The Remnant, on which there is no coronavirus talk! She and Jonah touch on some hilarious job licensing restrictions (fortune tellers?), talk a little memes, a little charismatic megafauna, a little Judaism, and even a little online dating. It’s a reminder of how life was before “The Event,” so it’s really a can’t-miss.

Show Notes:

–Shoshana at R Street

–Professor Randy Barnett, Shoshana’s inspiration

–The wild world of florist licenses in Louisiana

–George Will on Jacob Maged, the immigrant dry cleaner punished by the National Recovery Administration

–The city of Annapolis’ occupational license for fortune-telling

–Shoshana stans Arizona Governor Doug Ducey

–Oklahoma’s trying to regulate your Qi

–The legendary Snapchat hotdog

–Giant prehistoric sloths

–The uniquely interesting history of Ethiopian Jews

–Date-onomics

–Michael Novak: “A neoconservative is a progressive with three teenage children.”

–Earnest.com/dingo

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