Jonathan V. Last

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2,498 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 22 Sep

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The Bulwark Daily · David Frum and JVL: Iran Is Going to Make Trump Eat It · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I can tell you my patience for this is infinite.

Please, dilate at will.

What does Canada do?

I mean, do they draw closer to the EU here and to China?

pulled on both sides because of the geography?

What is the response for Canada?

I mean, they do have to live with us.

It's a little weird to have the house that lives next to you that your neighbor used to be a nice guy who you would have barbecues with, and now it's an ex-murderer.

Yeah, the key difference being that the United States is not a predictable, rapacious, predatory power in the way that the Chinese are essentially predictable.

So, you know, harder to even make accommodations with us, right?

All right.

So I want to zoom out now and talk about some big picture America stuff, big picture reform stuff.

You on your show shortly before July 4, you had Jeff Goldberg on.

Jeff, the guy.

You spent the first two minutes talking about Jeff's stewardship of the Atlantic.

And I would just like to recapitulate that here for 30 seconds.

Because The Atlantic was always a great magazine, but Jeff has made it the indispensable American magazine of letters in this moment.

And it has been an extraordinary transformation.

And my admiration for what he's done there is basically boundless.

So the course of, I don't know if it was that conversation or the piece you wrote right around there, you either wrote or said America can be itself again.

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