Jonah's never-ending vacation brings him to Prague on today’s worldly Ruminant, but fleeing deeper into Europe can’t help him escape his mid-life crisis. After a few brief musings on such intellectually stimulating subjects as toilet paper and Indonesian cuisine, he dives into less significant issues like the House speakership debacle, the ideological origins of left-wing opposition to Israel, and the ongoing dumbification of the GOP. Get your Che Guevara shirts ready for an interesting ride.

Show Notes:

- Eli Lake on Frantz Fanon

- Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

- Edmund Burke on the East India Company 

- Orwell on Gandhi

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