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Busting Out the Heidegger
Episode 221
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 see…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
中間王國
Episode 220
AEI scholar and China expert Oriana Skylar Mastro joins The Remnant to help us all understand the "Middle Kingdom" and its moves on the world stage. At a time like this, where the U.S. is retreating …
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Sleepless in Sheboygan
Episode 219
Tim Carney joins The Remnant, where he talks about some of the great shoe-leather reporting he’s been doing on the protests in the D.C. area. How many of the protesters are seriously out to cause tro…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Reading the Subtext Aloud
Episode 218
Jonah returns for the weekend Ruminant to address the growing unease he gets from the national protest movements. What’s going to be more damaging: the protests, or the massive overcorrection from th…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
The Grand Prize Vin-ner
Episode 217
In this crazy time we’re living in, what’s the most accurate historical parallel? 1968? The 1420s? UMass Boston historian and all-around smart dude Vincent Cannato returns to the show for the second …
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
I Don’t Have Courage, I Have Tenure.
Episode 216
How does liberty die? According to Padmé, with thunderous applause. According to The New York Times, with an ill-timed op-ed ghostwritten by Putin. And according to John Pitney, professor of American…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Fire Hose of Outrage
Episode 215
Jonah ruminates on why we can't have nice things, darling. A journey that takes us from Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals to John Courtney Murray's The Return to Tribalism. From the cigar s…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
The Vast Mermaid Conspiracy
Episode 214
Has the 1 percent really rigged the economy? Why do Argentinians believe the Vatican is hiding aliens? And finally, what’s the deal with Bigfoot (and the associated erotica therein)? University of Mi…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Ridley Returns
Episode 213
Last time Matt Ridley was on, Jonah was left with so many questions that he knew he had to get him on again in short order. So he’s here again to answer more questions on the themes of his new book, …
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Red Light, Green Light
Episode 212
Everything has a price - except The Remnant, of course. That’s free. But regardless, Jonah flies solo once more and shares some advice he learned from his father about how to appraise the worth of an…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago