On the mend from his sudden bout of illness, Jonah approaches today’s Ruminant with his standard level of nerdy panache. After offering a few thoughts on how The Tyranny of Clichés holds up today, he commences a lengthy rant on why canceling student debt would be a serious moral and political blunder, before turning to Francis Fukuyama’s work on liberalism. What does the relationship between virtue and responsibility look like? When is grad school worthwhile? And is John Rawls one of history’s greatest monsters?

Show Notes:

- The Remnant with David French 

- The Remnant with Francis Fukuyama

- Wednesday’s totally uncontroversial G-File

- Game of Loans, by Beth Akers and Matthew M. Chingos

- Puppet Master

- Shoshana Weissman on occupational licensing

- WSJ: “The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off”

- Jonah reviews Nine Days

- The Moynihan Report

- Charles A. Reich’s The Greening of America

- Jonah’s notes on nationalism

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