This weekend’s edition of the Ruminant is a little bit like Christopher Hitchens’ D.C. apartment: a little bit of one thing right next to a little bit of the complete opposite thing. There’s a lot of ground covered in this, a practically record-breaking long episode of the podcast in which Jonah discusses his dad’s work for the wonderfully-acronymed NANA (North American Newspaper Alliance), dynamic scoring (a system in which this episode gets an A+), the necessity of telling the truth at a time in which even committed conservatives have a legitimate temptation to abandon their principles, the request from a listener for Goldberg Story Time, and much, much more.

Show Notes:
- Tim Russert interviews Bob Kerrey
- John Edwards’ bizarre stem cell comments
- CDC director “speaking in her personal capacity”
- TX Gov. Abbott lifts mask mandate
- Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- “Rationalia”
- Jay Nordlinger’s Q&A
- Memogate/Rathergate
- “Slackjawed troglodytes”
- Voir dire, or, as Advisory Opinions likes to say, “Vwahr Dahr”
- “I don’t like the… stumps”
- Mit-Voche Epistle
- The Remnant with Steve Hayward and Charles Murray
- Kathryn Jean Lopez’ page at National Review
- Matt Lewis speaks to Bill Kristol