If You Start To Take Vienna … | Ruminant

Having spent 12 hours in near World War I-trench conditions at the Georgetown hospital, Jonah Goldberg is feeling grateful for penicillin and ready to pile in on some good ol’ fashioned eggheadery. After reminiscing about a battlefield experience at a different Washington hospital some years ago, Jonah indulges in some I-told-you-so on Iran, before getting into the midterms, SpaceX, investment regrets, 60 Minutes, Bari Weiss, media bias, Sam Francis, Italian Elite Theory, middle American radicals, Gramsci, and societal restraints on violence. 

Show Notes:

—Friday’s Dispod

—Jonah’s LA Times column on Schrödinger’s ceasefire

—Chris Stirewalt Remnant

—The Cook Political Report: “Ohio Poll Could Portend Trouble for Republicans”

—Eli Lake’s podcast with Michael Anton

—Charles Fain Lehman on crime in The Dispatch

—Jonah’s first book

—Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

—Jonah’s book Suicide of the West

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