Jonah opens up this week’s Ruminant with an indulgent diatribe against Top Chef and Wisconsin cheese. He then pivots toward even more divisive topics, such as Trump’s abortion statement and the messiah-like energy around Barack Obama. Then our culinary-political connoisseur goes on an epicurean journey of topics: hostile work environments, the problems with binary choices, and the definition of a liberal.

Show Notes:

—Jonah's Wednesday G-File

—Friday's Dispatch Podcast roundtable

—Top Chef Wisconsin Cheese Festival recap

—American Masters: "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley"

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