Coming at you from Baton Rouge, Jonah Goldberg is ornery and looking to settle some scores. After covering his bases on Iran, the ethics of criticizing the war, and the metrics of success, he moves on to lazy media criticism, ethnic humor, goyslop, and James Fishback. Finally, in a Pulitzer-worthy climax, Jonah definitively dismantles the legacy of Paul Ehrlich and annihilates Steve Hayes’ obsession with the word “junto.”

Show Notes:
—Wednesday G-File: “An Anti-Manifesto on the Iran War”
—The Intelligence from Economist Podcasts+
—Eli Lake and Andrew Sullivan Debate the Iran War
—Last week’s Ruminant
—Charles Hilu: “Florida’s College Republicans and Their Love Affair With James Fishback”
—The American Conservative: “Is James Fishback the William F. Buckley of Florida?”
—Jonah: “The Lasting Damage of Paul Ehrlich’s Pessimism”
—Ben Wattenberg: “The Nonsense Explosion”
—Kevin Williamson in The Dispatch on Paul Ehrlich
—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West
—The New York Times’ absurd obituary of Paul Ehrlich
—Jonah on The Overton Window

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