On today’s Ruminant, Jonah is back in good health and high spirits, so much so that he can’t resist boasting about a meeting he enjoyed this week with former President Bush. He’s also concerned about the prospect of a second Trump presidency, intrigued by the debate over whether America was right to bomb Hiroshima, and fixated on George Will’s idea that history is shaped by “small, compact, idea-driven minorities.” Members of the ambivalent right will find much to appreciate.

Show Notes:

- The Remnant with George Will

- Jonah on elites and Pareto distribution

- The Remnant with Steve Teles

- Shor thing

- The Remnant with Jay Cost

- The Remnant with Brian Riedl

- Frankenstein revisited

- American prohibition, colorized

- Pew’s political typology test

- Nikole Hannah-Jones on Hiroshima

- Dan McLaughlin on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

- Trump sours on DeSantis

- The Remnant with David Drucker

- Cognitive limitations

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