On today’s Ruminant, recorded live from the pungent parking lot of a California West Marine, Yiddish terms are required to describe Jonah’s emotional state. With his daughter Lucy leaving home, he processes his grief by exploring John Rawls’ original position, existentialist movie-making, and why American popular culture is much more conservative than most people realize. Afterward, all sentimentality fades away as an epic rant on the situation in Afghanistan and the dismal state of American politics commences. Animated by unprecedented annoyance, Jonah argues that President Biden has revealed himself to be plainly unfit for office. But that doesn’t make Trump look any more appealing.

Show Notes:
-Nine Days, which plunged Jonah into an existential crisis
-Philosophy 101
-Jonah’s pro-life ruminations
-Sweet victory
-The Remnant with Eli Lake
-The Dispatch Podcast on Afghanistan
-Jonah’s uncontroversial tweet which provoked nothing but love and praise