Radical Romantic Rebellions
Why are politicians so reluctant to take responsibility for the history of their own ideas? Everything from the minimum wage to community policing has a sordid past if you just look back far enough, a...
20 Jun 20201h 12min
‘A’ for Apostate
In the microcosm of right-of-center news, we have been blessed with two great writers by the name of Robert George. This podcast sees Jonah talking to one of them. No, not that one, the other one! The...
19 Jun 20201h 14min
'Some Birds Aren’t Meant to be Caged'
Escaping household chaos, a car-bound Jonah talks prisons with Brown University’s David Skarbek. Bolivian jails and Soviet gulags are just two choices in this long game of Where’d-You-Rather: Incarcer...
17 Jun 20201h 27min
Busting Out the Heidegger
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...
13 Jun 20201h 7min
中間王國
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 f...
11 Jun 20201h 19min
Sleepless in Sheboygan
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 trou...
9 Jun 20201h 11min
Reading the Subtext Aloud
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 the...
6 Jun 20201h 11min
The Grand Prize Vin-ner
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 t...
5 Jun 20201h 24min
