About this episode
Jonah's never-ending vacation brings him to Prague on today’s worldly Ruminant , but fleeing deeper into Europe can’t help him escape his mid-life crisis . After a few brief musings on such intellectually stimulating subjects as toilet paper and Indonesian cuisine, he dives into less significant issues like the House speakership debacle, the ideological origins of left-wing opposition to Israel, and the ongoing dumbification of the GOP. Get your Che Guevara shirts ready for an interesting ride. Show Notes: - Eli Lake on Frantz Fanon - Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth - Edmund Burke on the East India Company - Orwell on Gandhi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices