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The Ricochet Podcast

An Explosive Week

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In times such as these, the challenge is packing all the news into a single episode. James, Steve and Charles do their best to move with lightning speed through Biden's shower of clemency, UFOs in New Jersey, then across the Hudson River for the hard left's justifications for last week's coldblooded murder in Manhattan side-by-side with their fury over Daniel Penny's acquittal. All of this before sitting down with Noah Rothman to get an early glimpse at the change of management in Damascus.

... And did we mention Charlie Cooke's restaurant explosion experience?

- Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R - NJ02) tells Fox News that the drones over his state belong to Iran

Hosted by Charles C. W. Cooke, James Lileks, and Steve Hayward, with guest NRNoah Rothman

Discussion (10)

  • Wolfsheim@Wolfsheim

    Charles Cooke's V-2 story is most amusing (not that one should chortle about the terror) and illuminating. Always good to have him on the podcast. I hope that he becomes clairvoyant about restaurants!

    I am a regular reader of Nathan Rothman and was pleased to hear his most articulate voice. Syria? Yes, warily wait and see.

  • pooryorick@pooryorick

    Charlie's comment about the societal transaction in which we agree to solve our problems without violence, and then get a police force to control crime, an army to fight wars, etc - was brilliant.

    The left has decided that they know SO MUCH BETTER how things should be that literally killing people over different ideas on how to solve societal problems is ok now.

  • kedavis@kedavis
    Replyingtopooryorick

    pooryorick (View Comment):

    Charlie’s comment about the societal transaction in which we agree to solve our problems without violence, and then get a police force to control crime, an army to fight wars, etc – was brilliant.

    It's a great idea, but of course the problem is that those police forces and armies are made up of... what's the word I'm looking for... PEOPLE! And we get examples probably every day of how bad many of them are at it.

    Just 3 recent examples:

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