This weekend’s edition of the Ruminant is a little bit like Christopher Hitchens’ D.C. apartment: a little bit of one thing right next to a little bit of the complete opposite thing. There’s a lot of ground covered in this, a practically record-breaking long episode of the podcast in which Jonah discusses his dad’s work for the wonderfully-acronymed NANA (North American Newspaper Alliance), dynamic scoring (a system in which this episode gets an A+), the necessity of telling the truth at a time in which even committed conservatives have a legitimate temptation to abandon their principles, the request from a listener for Goldberg Story Time, and much, much more.

Show Notes:

• Tim Russert interviews Bob Kerrey

• John Edwards’ bizarre stem cell comments

• CDC director “speaking in her personal capacity”

• TX Gov. Abbott lifts mask mandate

• Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• “Rationalia”

• Jay Nordlinger’s Q&A

• Memogate/Rathergate

• “Slackjawed troglodytes”

• Voir dire, or, as Advisory Opinions likes to say, “Vwahr Dahr”

• “I don’t like the… stumps”

• Mit-Voche Epistle

• The Remnant with Steve Hayward and Charles Murray

• Kathryn Jean Lopez’ page at National Review

• Matt Lewis speaks to Bill Kristol

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