Having sweat through three shirts and appeared on eight podcasts before noon, Jonah Goldberg is fighting through a mountain of work before the early weekend kicks off. But fear not, gentle listeners: Few men work better under pressure than Jonah. Today’s Ruminant is an absolute throwdown on sexist jabronis on the right, the birthright citizenship case, codes of common decency, unitary executive theory, assimilation, Israel and anti-semitism, and the nation state. Buckle up. 

Show Notes:

—Jonah’s underrated second book

—The DisPod

—Jonah in The Dispatch: “The Birthright Citizenship Debate Is About to Get Worse”

—Kevin Williamson in The Dispatch: “The Exotic Cat-Eaters of Springfield, Ohio”

—Douglass North - Violence and Social Orders

—AO Pod on unitary executive theory 

—Jerusalem Demsas: “Why the left is wrong about assimilation”

—The Dispatch - The Next 250

—AEI - America at 250

—Michael Auslin Remnant

—Rana Dasgupta Remnant

—The G-File

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