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Lugubrious Bat-Winged Malcontents
Lugubrious Bat-Winged Malcontents
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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Oct 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Today’s Ruminant finds Jonah irritated by back pain, enamored with California roller coasters, and concerned for the health of his loyal spaniel (send her your love!). It also features a lengthy exploration of whether China can still be politically liberalized, why the terms and conditions of Trump’s new social media network are so funny, and how executive privilege actually functions. Stick around until the end for updates about new features on The Dispatch, and a preview of upcoming guests.
Show Notes:
- The House votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt
- Advisory Opinions explores January 6
- Jonah’s brief history of executive privilege
- Gimme some truth
- Fresh craziness from J.D. Vance
- Klon Kitchen on the dangers of China’s missile tests
- Lipset’s modernization theory
- Mike Pompeo on Special Report
- “We welcome stiff competition”
- Visions of China on The Dispatch Podcast
- The moral equivalent of war
- The Friday G-File
Show Notes:
- The House votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt
- Advisory Opinions explores January 6
- Jonah’s brief history of executive privilege
- Gimme some truth
- Fresh craziness from J.D. Vance
- Klon Kitchen on the dangers of China’s missile tests
- Lipset’s modernization theory
- Mike Pompeo on Special Report
- “We welcome stiff competition”
- Visions of China on The Dispatch Podcast
- The moral equivalent of war
- The Friday G-File
Released:
Oct 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 16: Iran, So Far Away: Jonah rocks the casbah in the latest Remnant, with Middle East scholar Michael Rubin, who helps him assess the condition of the regimes of Iran and Turkey and the status of the Middle East and Islam generally. Podcast intro and closing music is “March of the Elephants” by Remnant listener Craig Robison. by The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg