What to make of the many news stories of the week - the resignation of James Bennet at The New York Times, the establishment of an autarkic city-state in Seattle, and more? On the Ruminant, Jonah sees some connecting threads between them all, such as the shrinking of large, trustworthy media institutions.
Show Notes:
-"Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr." collection, hosted for free by the Hoover Institution
-Robin Williams caricatures Buckley twice in "Aladdin"
-Jonah writing on the problem of liberal media bias and the “objectivity” issue
-Ross Douthat’s op-ed about the Tom Cotton piece
-Jonah and Hugh Hewitt’s disagreement about the Alt-Right from back in 2016
-Jonah: How the nationalists blew their chance
-The members-only Midweek G-File
-Ed Koch: “Now they must be punished.”
-"Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law"
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