Episode Details

What to make of the many news stories of the week - the resignation of James Bennet at The New York Times, the establishment of an autarkic city-state in Seattle, and more? On the Ruminant, Jonah sees some connecting threads between them all, such as the shrinking of large, trustworthy media institutions.

Show Notes:

-This Friday’s G-File

-"Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr." collection, hosted for free by the Hoover Institution

-Robin Williams caricatures Buckley twice in "Aladdin"

-Jonah writing on the problem of liberal media bias and the “objectivity” issue

-“SAY IT! SAY IT!”

-Jonah’s column about Romney

-Ross Douthat’s op-ed about the Tom Cotton piece

-Monopsony

-Jonah and Hugh Hewitt’s disagreement about the Alt-Right from back in 2016

-Jonah: How the nationalists blew their chance

-The members-only Midweek G-File

-Ed Koch: “Now they must be punished.”

-The “stationary bandit”

-"Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law"

-The Hop Bird

-TommyJohn.com/remnant

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