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For this weekend’s Ruminant, hop into Jonah’s somewhat underwhelming time machine that goes only to the past – because, after all, “the future doesn’t exist.” Why is Jonah driving through the setting of a Mark Twain story? Why do conservatives look to the past for better times (even when the past is largely worse), and why do liberals look to a nonexistent future? Why are both left- and right-wing kids trying to make the entire world like a college campus? And who is Gabriel Kolko, and why does Jonah find him “useful”?
Show notes:
- The week’s first Remnant with Tevi Troy
- The week’s second Remnant, with David French and Greg Lukianoff
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The line about thinking you’re a genius because you don’t have class on Fridays made me laugh out loud. So true. As a relatively recent college grad, I can say your indictment of students was spot on.
Good and fun, again. On freedom of speech on campus, you make good points about norms. A Bigger problem than free speech, I think, is the indoctrination against free speech and the slamming closed of the Overton window. An incredible number of reasonable, debatable positions are increasingly dismissed as bigotry. Young people bring this Stalinism into society. Good people are unwilling to confront the hysteria, but they don’t buy it either. It will not end well.