Gala July 4 Podcast, and the Week in Headlines
And now for something completely different
The Ricochet podcast is taking this week’s holiday off, but the Three Whisky Happy Hour is out a day early with a special gala holiday edition, and it has plenty of fireworks! We leave behind for this week news headlines and court cases and take up some aspects of patriotism instead (but also with a tutorial for John about the mellotron!). We start with an origin story of sorts for John himself, as he is an immigrant to the U.S., and as such provides a good reminder of how immigration ought to be understood and practiced.
From there, Lucretia meditates on the curious recent survey results showing that love of country among Democrats has precipitously declined over the last decade or so. We agree that our dessicated education system has a lot to do with this—did we really think the Howard-Zinnification of our history would be without consequences?—but we need to wonder why Republicans seem to be immune to these leftist calumnies against our great country.
Lucretia fingers the Progressives, and that leads to the final gonzo segment for the holiday, where I settle scores from slanders against me when I missed an episode three weeks ago. I make an evidently futile attempt to school John about the mellotron and the inherent greatness of the brief shining moment of progressive rock—"rock and roll that went to college," as Jody Bottum calls it—in the early 1970s, which, come to think of it, is when the Clean Air Act was first enacted!
So come for the patriotism (and a sharp and unexpected argument about Daniel Bell), and stay for the awesome music! So listen here; with the holiday under way, it may not be posted up at Ricochet for a while.
And let’s close out with the Week in Headlines:
Biden believes he had accomplishments? Is that definitive proof of senility?
Harvard and Brown should send out their many useless administrators to get retail licenses and sell cookies. Harvard cookies can be red and Brown cookies can be brown.