The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Directional Burkeanism | Ruminant Dec 20, 2025

Show notes

At the end of a long day, Jonah Goldberg lights a Montecristo and reflects on the passing of Norman Podhoretz, Megan McArdle’s weighty abortion article, the limits of ideas, originalism and Burkeanism, Trump’s egomania, and his pride in The Dispatch.

Shownotes:
—Tevi Troy on Norman Podhoretz
—GLoP Culture Pod
—“My Negro Problem—And Ours”
—Friday’s Dispatch Pod
—Megan McArdle’s article
—Tuesday’s Dispatch Pod on Megan’s article
—Suicide of the West
—Jonah - “The Specter of McDonald’s”
—Jonah - “Cocaine Is Not Mustard Gas”
—MillionPodcasts.com
—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
—Yarvin tweet
—AO Pod - Burkeanism and the Administrative State
—The Rest Is History
—Law, Legislation and Liberty
—Last weeks’ Ruminant
—Excalibur
—Dispatch Junto program

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Shadows On the Wall of Twitter’s Cave | Interview: Jesse Arm Dec 17, 2025

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The Manhattan Institute’s Jesse Arm joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the makeup of the new GOP, the future of the parties, 2028, and perception vs. reality in American politics.

Shownotes:
—Commentary Magazine Podcast with Jesse Arm
—The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA
—George Will at the Washington Post
—Arm’s Interview with Richard Hanania
—Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
—Arm on the Klein-Ganz interview
—Trump grades his economy an ‘A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus'
—Abigail Shrier - Manhattan Institute
—Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo on Minnesota fraud
—CBS News Presents: A Town Hall with Erika Kirk
—Charlie Kirk: Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life
—Remnant with Rahm Emanuel
—Kevin Phillips: The Emerging Republican Majority
—Ben Wattenberg: The Real Majority
—Ruy Teixeira: The Emerging Democratic Majority⁠

The Remnant is a production of ⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠⁠click here⁠⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠⁠by clicking here⁠⁠.

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Ban Social Media for the Youth | Interview: Rahm Emanuel Dec 15, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg invites Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor and ambassador to Japan, aboard The Remnant to talk about the culinary wonders of Japan, the need for a more centrist politics, income inequality, and Rahm’s case for banning social media for America’s youth.

Shownotes:
—Jessica Riedl on seizing billionaire wealth
—Rahm in Politico on a youth social media ban
—Ro Khanna on CNN talking about TikTok
—Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation

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Trump Is Taking the Easy Way Out | Ruminant Dec 13, 2025

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His head all aswirl with yet-to-be-released Remnants, Jonah Goldberg moseys on down to the swamp for a swim with the punditry alligators. Jonah covers the Indiana redistricting that was not, gunboat diplomacy, nonexistent mustard-gas whores, evil AI, amending the Constitution, and the d-bag of the year.

Shownotes:
—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
—The Arena with Kasie Hunt
—Dead metaphors G-File
—Cocaine Is Not Mustard Gas G-File
—A Man of Great Sideburns | Interview: James M. Bradley
—The Dispatch's Charles Hilu on Congress and trade
—Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism
—Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair
—Economist - “When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil”
—Yuval Levin's American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again
—Glenn Beck Interviews AI GEORGE WASHINGTON
—Scott Lincicome: “The $140,000 ‘Poverty Line’ Is Laughably Wrong, So Why Does It Feel Right?”

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A Man of Great Sideburns | Interview: James M. Bradley Dec 10, 2025

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On today’s episode, Jonah Goldberg is joined by James M. Bradley, the greatest living biographer of President Martin Van Buren. Together, they cover the institutionalization of the parties, the rise of Jacksonian populism, the early Free Soil Party, the Mexican-American War, the Revolutions of 1848, and the features and bugs of our modern party system.

Shownotes:
—Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician
—Kramer vs. the Van Buren Boys | Seinfeld

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Yankee in Kevin Williamson’s Court | Interview: Colin Woodard Dec 08, 2025

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The Remnant coup d’état continues as Kevin Williamson sits down with journalist Colin Woodard to talk about our country’s most deeply seated cultural divisions. Woodard and Williamson cover Texas, the Puritans, Appalachia, Donald Trump’s ethnonationalism, regional Covid-19 trends, and shifting party geography.

Shownotes:
—Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
—American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
—Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
—J.D. Vance’s Claremont speech
—Homeland Security “a heritage to be proud of” tweet
—Kevin on John Brown for The Dispatch
—The Pell Center Nationhood Lab
—“Nationhood Lab: The Story of America” report

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‘The Perception of Unfettered Power’ | Ruminant Dec 06, 2025

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After doing public penance for his recent absences from The Remnant, Jonah Goldberg launches into the important issues of the day, tackling sandwiches, the Oregon coast, Mitt Romney’s alligator fakeness, the laws of war, and his own misanthropic tendencies.

Plus, get Jonah’s definition of the word ‘punditry’ and The Remnant’s Spotify stats.

Shownotes:
—Commentary podcast with Jesse Arm
—Charles Hilu Dispatch piece on tariffs
—The Problem with ‘They’ | Ruminant
—RealClearPolitics Podcast
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—Remnant with Sarah Isgur

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The U.S. at War | Interview: Aaron MacLean Dec 03, 2025

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Aaron Maclean, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and host of the School of War podcast, joins guest host Steve Hayes to discuss the anxiety-inducing analysis of the types of people who make up Trump’s foreign policy coalition. Is there any room for old-school Republicans, or have isolationists completely taken over?

Show Notes:
–Angus MacLean – father, soldier, liberator
–TMD’s reporting on Pete Hegseth
–Nick Catoggio’s newsletter on Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel

The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here.

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Let the Pandas Go Extinct | Interview: Sarah Isgur Dec 01, 2025

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Captain Jonah Goldberg has invited Sarah Isgur aboard The Dispatch’s flagship podcast, HMS Remnant, to hatch a plot to populate The Lone Star State with Loxodonta. Along the way, they discuss porn, iPhones, the youth, Death by Lightning, Matthew Mcconaughey, and the insatiable Chinese lust for rhino horn.

Plus, a scandal-provoking announcement about The Remnant’s release schedule.

Shownotes:
—Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court
—Sarah’s Dispatch author page
—AO Podcast
—The Selfie Vote
—National Affairs
—The Public Interest archives
—IFS study on sexlessness
—Jonah: We’re Turning Japanese
—Sarah’s Dispatch Pod moment on porn
—Ron Bailey’s Reason page
—Dan McLaughlin review of Death by Lightening

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In Defense of Dogma | Solo Nov 29, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the Trump administration's prospective peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, why dogma is necessary in a society, and the most nationalistic holiday of the year.

Show notes:
—Jonah’s column on the peace deal
—Friday’s G-File

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