Jonah is coming off an electric evening with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he danced with fire eaters and geeked out with fellow think tank nationals. As a result, he is well prepared to dig into the Hezbollah-pager plot, Trump’s Freudian slip in his attempt to combat antisemitism, the Rich Lowry non-controversy, and the continued bad behavior of J.D. Vance. To close it out, Jonah scolds the media for playing morality police and reminds those still inhabiting the world of the sane of the unbelievable idiocy of Donald Trump’s defenders.

Show Notes:

—The Heart of a Cheetah by Magatte Wade

—Trump on antisemitism

—The RFK Jr./Olivia Nuzzi affair—err, “situationship”

—Wednesday G-File

—A pretty long story about a thing that didn’t happen

—A pretty long podcast about a thing that didn’t happen

—Human Progress reviews “An Edible History of Humanity”

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