This weekend’s edition of the Ruminant is a little bit like Christopher Hitchens’ D.C. apartment: a little bit of one thing right next to a little bit of the complete opposite thing. There’s a lot of ground covered in this, a practically record-breaking long episode of the podcast in which Jonah discusses his dad’s work for the wonderfully-acronymed NANA (North American Newspaper Alliance), dynamic scoring (a system in which this episode gets an A+), the necessity of telling the truth at a time in which even committed conservatives have a legitimate temptation to abandon their principles, the request from a listener for Goldberg Story Time, and much, much more.

Show Notes:

- Tim Russert interviews Bob Kerrey

- John Edwards’ bizarre stem cell comments

- CDC director “speaking in her personal capacity”

- TX Gov. Abbott lifts mask mandate

- Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

- “Rationalia”

- Jay Nordlinger’s Q&A

- Memogate/Rathergate

- “Slackjawed troglodytes”

- Voir dire, or, as Advisory Opinions likes to say, “Vwahr Dahr”

- “I don’t like the… stumps”

- Mit-Voche Epistle

- The Remnant with Steve Hayward and Charles Murray

- Kathryn Jean Lopez’ page at National Review

- Matt Lewis speaks to Bill Kristol

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