The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Cultural Minefield | Interview: John Podhoretz Nov 27, 2025

Show notes

Today on The Remnant Jonah Goldberg indulges two of his favorite hobbies: competing in TV nerdery with John Podhoretz (grand poohbah of Commentary) and bashing the Straussians. John and Jonah cover the Claremont Institute, the decline of TV and cinema, Death by Lightning, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Shownotes:
—Commentary Podcast
—GLoP Podcast
—Fritz Feld doing the ‘pop’
—Jonah’s Claremont Review of Books piece
—Bloom and Jaffa - Shakespeare’s Politics
—“The Flight 93 Election”
—The American Mind
—Gordon Wood’s address at AEI
—Jonah’s Nixon G-File
—Dear Mr. President: the Letters of Julia Sand | CEI Documentary
—Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

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Commerce, Not Conquest | Interview: William Easterly Nov 26, 2025

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Economist William Easterly makes his debut on The Remnant to talk with middle-aged nobody Jonah Goldberg about free trade, USAID, human agency, colonialism, and Chinese liberalization.

Shownotes:
—Easterly’s website
—Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
—Easterly’s recent paper touching on Lee Kuan Yew
—Excerpts from Edmund Burke’s speech on India
—Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

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‘The Ghost in the Machine of MAGA’ | Ruminant Nov 22, 2025

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His Curmudgeonship Jonah Goldberg is holding court to pontificate about the troubles in the land, and he isn’t wanting for material. Jonah covers his recent takes on Richard Nixon and the pardon power, as well as the Epstein files, tariffs, impeachment, and what awaits in 2028.Plus: Jonah’s Star Trek-laced takes on infinite energy, instant food generation, and the elimination of work.

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Shownotes:
—Dick Cheney’s funeral
—Wednesday G-File
—Charlie Cooke on repudiating past politicians
—Chris Rufo essay on J.D. Vance
—Most recent Remnant with Chris Stirewalt
—Advisory Opinions on disobeying illegal orders
—Jonah’s LA Times column on pardons
—Dispatch Podcast on Trump’s tariffs and foreign investment pledges
—“Has President Trump ‘Solved Six Wars in Six Months’?”
—Elon Musk on AI eliminating poverty
—The Morning Dispatch

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‘The Whole Thing Is Built On Lies’ | Interview: Mark Clifford Nov 20, 2025

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Mark Clifford, Hong Kong expert and biographer of Jimmy Lai, takes his stand on the floor of the House of Remnant to discuss Lai’s imprisonment, the future of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Han supremacy, COVID-19, and the future of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Shownotes:
—The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic
—Mark’s website
—The Death of Stalin

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Postliberalism: Flirting with Fascism | Interview: George Weigel Nov 19, 2025

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The pillars of order are crumbling around us and the crazies are wielding the sledgehammers; enter our heroes, George Weigel and Jonah Goldberg, to introduce a healthy dose of sanity to the public square. Jonah and George cover the state of Catholicism in the U.S., the slippery slope of postliberalism, the folly of integralism, and the strange, noxious rise of the antisemites.

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Shownotes:
—Jonah’s G-File on postliberalism
—Patrick Deneen’s book: Why Liberalism Failed
—Vatican II’s declaration on religious freedom
—George’s book of commencement speeches
—Jonah in the NYT on Tucker Carlson
—To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II
—Taylor Marshall’s book, Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within
—George on antisemitism in Public Discourse

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Prepackaged Henhouses | Ruminant Nov 15, 2025

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After deftly disposing of some punditry on the government shutdown and the Epstein files, Jonah Goldberg jumps head first into the topics of the week: postliberalism, groypers, and the immense challenges of political labels. Plus, dedicated listeners will be treated to a rant on Tucker Carlson and Japan.

Shownotes:
—Remnant episode with Yuval Levin
—The Editors podcast on the shutdown
—Jonah’s take on the East Wing
—Wednesday’s G-File
—Today’s Dispatch Podcast
—Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes
—Postliberal Order Substack
—Jonah's last book
—Why Liberalism Failed
—Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
—Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
—Dispatch article on Carl Schmitt in China
—Rod Dreher Substack on his visit to Washington
—George Orwell: “Politics and the English Language”
—The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
—G-File: “On the Mother of All Questions”
—The Morning Dispatch
—Advisory Opinions podcast
—Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing
—Tucker on Japan

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The Men of the 20th Century Lost the Plot | Interview: Andrew Lambert Nov 13, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg invites the greatest naval historian of our time, Andrew Lambert, aboard the H.M.S. Remnant (The Dispatch's flagship podcast) to sit on deck and discuss the Royal Navy. Lambert treats Jonah to a whirlwind tour, encompassing 19th-century British grand strategy, the liberal tendencies of sea powers, and the lessons British naval history holds for America today.

Shownotes:
—No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
—The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy
—Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

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Save Our Universities! | Interview: William Inboden Nov 12, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg talks to William Inboden, executive vice president and provost at the University of Texas and one of the leading conservative voices in higher education. Jonah and Will discuss the absurdity of the ivory tower, the inconsistency of our free speech standards, and the threat posed by Chinese interference in American universities.

Shownotes:
—William’s piece for National Affairs
—WSJ piece on research funding
—Chesterton’s Fence
—An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
—University of Texas Statement on Academic Integrity
—Select Committee on the CCP report on espionage in academia
—The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It, by John Agresto
—Will’s article on the White House compact in The Chronicle of Higher Education
—Keith Whittington in The Dispatch on the White House compact

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Two Gas Pedals and No Brakes | Ruminant Nov 08, 2025

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After musing on Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, and the Congress they helped create, Jonah Goldberg gives his listeners a tour de force on the Heritage Foundation, William F. Buckley Jr., and the new wave of antisemitism.

Shownotes:
—Grand Rapids live Remnant
—Remnant with Yuval
—Today’s piece on Heritage in The Dispatch
—Last week’s G-File
—Kevin Roberts original video
—Heritage all-hands meeting
—Jonah on J.D. Vance and “Heritage Americans”
—A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
— ‘Bravery on the Cheap’ G-File
—Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
—Jonah’s one piece in The Public Interest
—Cliff Asness in Commentary
—Jonah on the ‘Great Feminization’ piece
—Thomas Sowell on middleman minorities

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And the Next President of Heritage Is … | Live From Grand Rapids Nov 06, 2025

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The Remnant took the show on the road! Joined by a cast of characters that would make P.T. Barnum's circus monkeys look like a pack of well-trained poodles, Jonah Goldberg and his tomfoolerous crew (Kevin D. Williamson, former Rep. Peter Meijer) contest bitterly over tariffs, pontificate on unilateral hypocrisy, and speculate about the post-Trump world.

Shownotes:
—The Remnant with Yuval Levin
—Ezra Klein on the Democratic future
—Babylon Bee: “Trump Vows To Nationalize As Many Private Companies As It Takes To Defeat Socialism”