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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