Back from his trip abroad, Jonah returns to D.C. for some rank Mueller punditry and some aimless Jack-assisted potpourri.

Show Notes:

• Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo
• Untuckit.com, use promo code Dingo
• On loving curses 
• On hard collusion skepticism 
• Will Saletan on Barr’s weasel words
• The second David French Remnant
• Dissolve the people and elect another
• Charlotte Allen (not Charlotte Hays) on the Southern Poverty Law Center
• (Though Charlotte Hays has also written on this topic) 
• Buy the underrated Tyranny of Clichés
• And Liberal Fascism 
• Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate
• The National Cathedral’s Darth Vader grotesque 
• Listen to the GLoP podcast 
• The Foodlovers Tour
• The G-File
• Heaven On Earth – Joshua Muravchik 
• Values Matter Most – Ben Wattenberg 
• The Sally Satel Remnant 
• Jack’s podcast, Young Americans 
• Jack’s appearance on the Legendarium podcast discussing The Silmarillion (and further discussion on Ricochet)
• Conan O’Brien’s sensual podcast with Jeff Goldblum 
• Jack’s viral tweet (follow him @jackbutler4815)
• The Economic Report of the President’s suspicious intern names  

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The Remnant performs one of its trademark deep-dives on policy, this time about opioids and with the help of AEI scholar and practicing psychiatrist Dr. Sally Satel.

Show Notes:

• sbalist.org/remnant
• Sally Satel’s AEI scholar page
• House Energy and Commerce Oversight Committee Report on opioid distribution failures
• “Taking On the Scourge of Opioids” – Sally Satel 
• AEI event on opioids 
• The Tim Carney episode (and his new book)
• Ironton, Ohio 
• “Politics and the English Language” – George Orwell
• Jonah’s eulogy for his brother
• Blitzed – Norman Oehler 
• Dreamland – Sam Quinones 
• BlacKKKlansman – Ron Stallworth 

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Outgoing AEI president Arthur Brooks steps out of legend and into The Remnant to discuss how to heal our politically divided nation, the subject of his new book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt.

Show Notes:

• Arthur Brooks’ book, Love Your Enemies
• The new adventure with Steve Hayes
• Ben Wattenberg’s book, The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong
• Suicide of the West
• Butter Cow
• The Boomerang Effect
• The 93% of Americans who hate how divided we are
• Deindividuation
• Arthur Brooks Show episode featuring John Gottman
• The most important person in the whole wide world is you
• The Butterfly Effect
• Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Untuckit.com/Dingo
• On conservatives and persuasion
• Ramesh Ponnuru
• Arthur Brooks Show podcast on loving your work
• Arthur Brooks’ Washington Post column
• The G-File
• Get NR Plus to listen to the first Arthur Brooks Remnant episode
• Buy the underappreciated Tyranny of Clichés
• George Orwell on Gandhi 
• Follow @jonahremnant, not @jackbutler4815

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What’s this? A piece of Remnant apocrypha, long thought lost, has been recovered! Indeed: A conversation last November between Jonah and Rob Long on the last National Review cruise now sees the light of day.

Show Notes:

• Jonah on the glory of off-shore oil drilling 
• PETA’s “animal-friendly language” 
• The Remnant
• GLoP 

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