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Ricochet Podcast: Before the Deluge

  First, let it be known that this podcast was recorded before The Memo® was released. We’ll dissect that on next week’s show. Instead, Bari Weiss from the New York Times joins to ...
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GLoP Culture: Pass the Talking Stick

  This week on this very sedate and polite episode of GLoP, the boys pass the talking stick and chat about the shutdown, Stormy Daniels, a movie you haven’t seen in a while ...

Ricochet Podcast: You’re Fired

  This week, football, firings (real and alleged), and free trade. First up, the great Victor Davis Hanson, who’s National Review cover story is a balanced look at the pluses and minuses of ...

Ricochet Podcast: The Hole Truth

  Yes, we discuss that phrase, but no, we don’t say the word. Instead, we do a deep dive on immigration with two of the sharpest minds on the issue: ...

GLoP Culture: Don’t Force Me, Bro

  First GLoP of 2018 and we’ve got President Winfrey, some dopey book that everyone is talking about, and yes the official GLoP Star Wars hot take extravaganza. We are your father. ...

Ricochet Podcast: That Book

  First podcast of 2018 so we wanted to out our best foot forward. We’ve got Commentary’s Sohrab Ahmari on Iran and Washington Examiner’s Byron York on The Book, collusion, and Congress. Buckle up, it’s going ...

GLoP Culture: A Merry GLoP

  It’s the last GLoP of the year, so climb aboard! We do a little more chatter on Moore, but the bulk of this show is about Christmas movies: It’s A Wonderful ...

Ricochet Podcast: One Never Knows, Does One?

  This week, talking Jerusalem with the Washington Free Beacon’s Matt Continetti and Alabama with the Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn. Discuss this episode at Ricochet. 

Ricochet Podcast: A Fistful of Tush

  This week, a Minnesotan’s view on Franken and Keillor, guest David Limbaugh, and a chat with an actual southerner about the south (that’s Weekly Standard writer Barton Swaim). Also, a bit about Flynn, and ...

Time & Again

  The Kochs buy some Time, Goldberg goes to Broadway, sexual harassment has landed in Congress, and the boys pick their favorite Pixar movie. Discuss this episode at Ricochet. 

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Immigration

The Truth about Separating Kids

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The latest furor over Trump immigration policy involves the separation of children from parents at the border. As usual, the outrage obscures more than it illuminates, so it’s worth walking through what’s happening here. For the longest time, illegal immigration was driven by single males from Mexico. ... Read More
Culture

Krauthammer’s Take on Life

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Dear Reader (And members of the Remnant everywhere), My plan was to do something new this week: Write a “news”letter in which the number and ratio of consonants to vowels in each word advanced in accordance with the Fibonacci sequence until, like a pointillist painting, seen from afar this “news”letter ... Read More
World

Venezuela’s Future — and Ours

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The United States has resigned in protest from the UN Human Rights Council, which has a long and ignominious record of protecting the world’s worst abusers of human rights. The proximate cause of the U.S. resignation was the council’s unwillingness to act on the matter of Venezuela, where the socialist ... Read More
PC Culture

When PC Comes Back to Bite You

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Political correctness run amok is a popular topic on the right these days. Indeed, the conservative bookshelf is chock full of best-sellers devoted to the topic. Subject matters vary. One may focus on the hypocrisy of campus speech codes, another on the revisionist attempt to indict our founding fathers, yet ... Read More
Politics & Policy

Charles Krauthammer, R.I.P.

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It’s not often that the loss of an opinion writer can be said to be a loss for the country, but that is true of Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist who died yesterday. In a fractured media environment where almost no one commands universal respect, where crudity of expression and ... Read More