The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Latest Episodes:

Reject Progressive Historiography | Ruminant Feb 28, 2026

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Rum-brained and sunburned, Jonah Goldberg posts up poolside to ruminate on the Caribbean's cruise economy, Woodrow Wilson, how we think about history, Trump’s condo-salesman vanity, the ongoing war in Ukraine, J.D. Vance as the “fraud czar,” and the journalistic ethics of Polymarket.

Show Notes:
—Wednesday's G-File
—AO pod wherein David French acknowledges his intellectual debt to Jonah
—Remnant - The Great Cancellation of Woodrow Wilson
—Jonah’s book Liberal Fascism
— Dan McLaughlin - “The Hater’s Guide to Woodrow Wilson”
—Washington Post - “Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency”
—Last week’s Remnant
—Dr. Oz - “Best State of the Union ever”
—Ukraine: The Latest on the four-year anniversary of the war
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—In Living Color- Hey Mon

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Conservatism Is Not White | Interview: Richard M. Reinsch II Feb 25, 2026

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In need of some good ol’ fashioned conservative inside baseball, Jonah Goldberg turns to the only man he can: Richard Reinsch. Jonah and Richard dive deep into GOP history, examining how the Nixon era serves as a prism through which we can view the MAGA moment, before debunking the recent “white-culture” phenomenon and arguing for a conservatism built on the Declaration of Independence’s immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
Shownotes:
—Reinsch in Commentary: “Against Grievance Politics”
—Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute profile
—Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary
—Ross Douthat’s arguments about the future of conservatism
—Jonah’s G-File response to Douthat
—Jonah’s G-File on white culture and right-wing identitarianism
—Oren Cass in the New York Times
—Kevin Williamson for The Dispatch: “The Not-So-Obvious Price of Trump’s Trade Incoherence”
—Kesler - Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness
—Huntington - Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
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Freedom Hasn’t Always Meant Choice | Interview: Sophia Rosenfeld Feb 23, 2026

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On today’s episode, Jonah spoils himself by conversing with historian Sophia Rosenfeld about the history of choice, changes in the meaning of freedom, the significance of the mundane, and the American Revolution’s impact on Europe.

Shownotes:
—The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
—Jerry Muller: The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
—Moscow On The Hudson Coffee Coffee Coffee
—FDR: Second Bill of Rights
—Milton Friedman: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
—Irving Kristol: “The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution”
—Jonah: “The American Revolution was a Really Big Deal”
—Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

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Watch Jonah Goldberg Destroy Iran | Ruminant Feb 21, 2026

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Jonah Goldberg, about to escape the icy north for some sun-soaked R&R, is feeling boisterous. After reveling in his new favorite art form—Donald Trump’s “Truths” set to music—Jonah piles on Jesse Jackson, Iran, the Justice Department, Napoleon III, and Notre Dame, crescendoing with his critique of “white culture” and right-wing identity politics.

Shownotes:
—Jonah on CNN’s The Arena talking smack about sleazy democrats
—Financial Times—“Why Iran is betting on war”
—Nick Catoggio's Boiling Frogs on Trump and Iran
—Jonah on the Sam Harris podcast
—The Remnant with Ken Pollack
—The Remnant with Eli Lake
—Jonah’s book Liberal Fascism
—Jonah’s “white culture” G-File
—Bo Winegard's defense of white culture
—Jonah’s takedown of Jamelle Bouie in National Review

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‘Aquavit,’ ‘Zebroid,’ and ‘Haole’ | Interview: Stefan Fatsis Feb 18, 2026

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The Remnant is proud to bestow its newly formed, not-really-endowed chair of lexicography upon Scrabble legend and word nerd Stefan Fatsis. For his first act as chair, Stefan joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the role of professional lexicographers, whether dictionaries should be normative or descriptive, how dictionaries handle controversial words, and the threat that the digital age poses not only to the dictionary, but to knowledge itself.

Show Notes:
—Unabridged The Thrill of and Threat to the Modern Dictionary
—Stefan in Slate: “What Does 'Unabridged' Even Mean Anymore?”
—John McWhorter’s most recent Remnant appearance
—Fatsis’ book on competitive Scrabble
—Mencken - The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States

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Burkeans, Nutcases, and Originalists | Interview: Cass Sunstein Feb 16, 2026

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The sun comes up, a new day dawns, and Cass Sunstein publishes another book. Today he joins Jonah Goldberg on The Remnant to discuss the six separations of power that undergird our republic, along with unitary executive theory, democracy, and electoral mandates.
Shownotes:
—Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times
—Yuval Levin’s book: The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
—Jonah in National Review: “The Bluto-Burke Connection Revealed!”
—Suicide of the West
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Utopias Are Conspiracy Theories | Ruminant Feb 14, 2026

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Fresh off of arguing with Steve Hayes about the different places one can keep a ferret, Jonah Goldberg ruminates on cameras in Congress, choosing between party and principle, Apple News’ First Amendment rights, Kristi Noem’s blanket, the Hayekianism of Burke, Yoram Hazony’s foolishness, and RFK Jr.’s crackpottery.

Plus, you should preorder Sarah Isgur’s book.

Shownotes:
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—WSJ piece on Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and DHS
—Cass Sunstein’s book on separation of powers
—Wednesday's G-File
—The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
—Suicide of the West
—Burke: “Birds of Prey” speech
—Ruminant touching on Yoram Hazony
—James Kirchick in Commentary - “The Chutzpah of Yoram Hazony”
—Michael A. Woronoff in Commentary: “Trump the Corporatist”

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Black Box ‘Realism’ | Interview: Elliott Abrams Feb 11, 2026

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Hyped up on cold medicine and battling delirium, Jonah Goldberg sets off with Elliott Abrams on a globe-trotting adventure in foreign policy covering Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, India, and more. Along the way they discuss the nature of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the consequences of American unpredictability, Americans' conceptions of human rights abroad, the utility of the term “neoconservative,” and the lies the U.N. was founded on.
Show Notes:
—Elliott Abrams profile
—"Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System”
—Eli Lake on The Remnant
—Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy
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Don Robby Corleone | Interview: Robert P. George Feb 09, 2026

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Back by popular demand, the great jurist-philosopher and godfather of American conservatism Robby George has returned to The Remnant to set Jonah Goldberg straight about truth, natural law, and the common good. Jonah and Robby talk about the Western tradition, the age of feelings, different kinds of rights, the death penalty, new paganism, and Robby’s desire to fight for the soul of conservatism.

Shownotes:
—Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment
—George Varouxakis' The West: The History of an Idea
—Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
—What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
—Jonah’s first book
—Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed
—“The Flight 93 Election”
—Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality

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‘Complexity is a Subsidy’ | Ruminant Feb 07, 2026

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The Ruminant is vindicated!!! After years of Steve Hayes and The Fair Jessica griping about Jonah’s peculiar habit of ruminating alone in his basement, new stats have proved their skepticism decidedly misplaced. Tune in to learn all about it, along with Jonah’s thoughts on the terms ‘progressive’ and ‘fascist,’ the Melania movie, Trump’s state-capitalism, The Washington Post, and hypocrisy as a violation of the American creed.

But first, some sad news…

Shownotes:
—Friday’s Dispatch Pod
—Megan McArdle - “There’s a way to stop Trump. First, drop the fascism debate.”
—Jonah’s book Liberal Fascism
—Jonah in The Free Press: “The January 6th Republicans”
—Clinton In 2007: I Prefer Calling Myself “Progressive” To “Liberal”
—Orwell - “Politics and the English Language”
—NYT - “Small Businesses Wither Under Trump’s Tariffs: ‘It’s Hard to Breathe’”
—AO Pod on nationalizing elections
—Slate - “I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.”
—Commentary Podcast on The Washington Post
—Jonah’s LA Times column
—Alex Demas’s Dispatch piece on Trump’s corruption