A rebroadcast of our last subscriber-only Second Sunday episode. Thomas Chatterton Williams stops by. Everyone’s in the same room. Many bottles are emptied. Many offensive jokes told. Many careers destroyed. Enjoy.

* The one Jew she likes

* The amateur crank historian

* The cranks always end at…take a guess

* Kmele isn’t interested in Ms. Macron’s dong

* Show we draw some distinctions?

* Congrats to the Buchananites

* The weirdness of Gavin Newsom’s podcast

* On Bannon

* On Columbia, the first amendment, masks, and dangerous idiots

* The Ukraine non-deal

* And much, much more

I was very moved by friend & past guest Jeff Blehar’s Covid anniversary piece, so … I just read it out loud. And added related commentary for paying subscribers. Some links alluded to therein, in rough order of reference:

* Reason Roundtable Covid look-back

* Related Twitter thread

* “The Great COVID Rupture: Three years after ‘15 days to slow the spread,’…

* A very long SOTU

* Al Green meets Buju Banton, Tripadvisor objects

* The most beautiful, terrifying word in the English language

* The “deficit” you shouldn’t care about

* The forgotten Foxconn boondoggle

* The hopeless Democrats

* Maybe look at, say, Dean Phillips and ignore the Squad

* Asian finger cuffs

* Two cheers for parliamentary democracy

* Poor lil’ Marco

* Who killed Gene Hackman’s dog?

There’s some discussion of parenting. A tiny bit about the Oscars. And a bunch about the triumph of conspiracy culture. But this is mostly a subscriber-only episode about the Zelensky debacle and the ongoing U.S. foreign policy realignment. So why bother with bullet points?’

* Trump’s maturity

* Trump’s deal making

* Trump and NATO

* Trump vs. Europe

* Trump and Taiwan

* A price on Bolton’s head

* Is he a neocon?

* The traffickers of the Fifth Column

* The genius of Bill Belichick

* Those Boston boys aren’t so terrible after all

* Nick v. Stewart

* Democracy died in the light!

* The WaPo freakout

* The press pool freakout

* No one believes in anything, part 387

* The “Epstein files” will contain nothing of interest

* A “Roman” salute that no one noticed

* MSNBC is apparently racist

* A live event in NYC!

* RIP Roberta

* What’s the “woke right?” No idea.

* MAGA Brooklyn

* Reform Party 2000!

* Nadia didn’t pay, so…

* But does it vindicate the collusion narrative?

* Eli Lake’s “Framed and Guilty”

* The Great Negotiator

* The rise of AfD…and the end of Europe?

* Kmele and Kanye (“He’s a NAZI, Kmele, a NAZI…”)

* Moynihan’s memory

* Drinking with Team Uterus