Jonah ruminates on why we can't have nice things, darling. A journey that takes us from Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals to John Courtney Murray's The Return to Tribalism. From the cigar shop to the primitive Greek usage of the word "idiot."

Show Notes:

-Jonah's piece Cigars: A Love Story or Two

-Jonah's piece Democracy in the Tobacconist’s

-Sen. Ben Sasse's civics lesson

-This week's G-File

-Wednesday's "news"letter

-How to educate an American webinar

-John Courtney Murray's The Return to Tribalism

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