The Role of Politics in the Informal and Formal Relations and Distribution of Power

Rather than dedicating today’s Ruminant to another interminable rant about the state of the GOP (although if you’re interested in one of those, you might want to read Wednesday's members-only G-File, hint-hint), Jonah focuses his attention on topics less likely to drive him utterly insane. These include some major recent Supreme Court decisions, his shrinking skepticism of horseshoe theory, and our tendency to overlook the meaningful distinctions between friends, family, and strangers. Tune in also to hear Jonah thoroughly dispel all rumors of his anti-Italian bigotry.

Show Notes:

- The GLoP Culture podcast 

- The Dispatch Podcast on the end of affirmative action

- The Remnant with Bret Devereaux

- Guy is released from the pit for a Remnant AMA

- Jonah: “Defending Conservatism—From the Right”

- Gertrude Himmelfarb’s The Roads to Modernity: the British, French, and American Enlightenments

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

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