CS 121: Choppin' It Up Chapo feat. Will Menaker (@willmenaker) (10/04/2018) (Patreon)

We discuss the new Chapo Trap House book, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason https://amzn.to/2pFWyhd and the origin story of the Chapo Trap House podcast. We also cover a lot of stories in the news and some of the worst people in media and public life, and break down the Chapo Extended Universe for neophytes. 

Discussed in the episode:

• John Derbyshire praising Amy Chua's Tiger Mom book https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/tigermom.html; Charles Murray praising the book as well http://www.aei.org/publication/amy-chua-bludgeons-entire-generation-of-sensitive-parents-bless-her/ 
• "How the 'Tiger Mom' Convinced the Author of Hillbilly Elegy to Write His Story" by Caroline Kitchener https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/hillbilly-elegy-mentor/529443/ 
• Southpaw's tweet showing how National Review has done a 180 on Trump https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1047696035726934017 
• Bret Stephens's NYT piece "For Once, I’m Grateful for Trump" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-ford-allegations.html; Eli Lake praising Bret Stephens's piece https://twitter.com/EliLake/status/1047839053721358337 
• The Federalist creating a petition of conservative thought leaders to send to The Washington Post demanding the firing of Jennifer Rubin as their resident conservative blogger https://twitter.com/approject/status/1047848947002294272