Judging Political Character: A Complex Debate

Buckle up, there are tiny, crazy monkeys on tricycles riding around inside Jonah Goldberg’s brain, and the only way to let them out is an epic, mega Ruminant. You’re welcome, America.

Jonah begins with a defense of his free spirit and recent snarkiness before he launches into a critique of Curtis Yarvin’s recent antics in the New York Times. He covers FDR’s stint in Silicon Valley, neo-reactionary historical revisionism, and other lines of sophomoric nonsense. In the realm of politics: the hypocrisy of social conservatives, the dueling moral repugnancy of Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s pardons, and the problems with abandoning conservative principles to own the libs.

Show Notes:

—Curtis Yarvin's NYT Interview

—“The Road to Serfdom is Paved with B.S.” (The Reactionary Mind Review)

—“The Divine Right of CEOs”

—Chris Cox on Woodrow Wilson and post-Reconstruction South

—Stephen Pinker, “A History of Violence”

—Mike Warren in The Dispatch: “How the Heritage Foundation Sold Its Birthright”

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