The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Latest Episodes:

Apocalypse Now | Interview: Ross Douthat Jul 10, 2025

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Ross Douthat of the New York Times joins Jonah Goldberg to ruminate over the resilience of American democracy, Pope Leo XIV, postliberalism, and Douthat’s recent conversation with Peter Thiel. Plus: their thoughts on wokeness, the Antichrist, and performative apocalypticism.

Show Notes:
—Ross Douthat's podcast, "Interesting Times"
—Ross Douthat's book, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
—Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column, “Elon Musk’s America Party is a long shot"

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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, regular livestreams, and other members-only content—click here.

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Democracy Kinda Sucks Jul 09, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg and Remnant guest emeritus Chris Stirewalt are coming to you live from a necrophiliac brothel in Rangoon (more commonly referred to as the American Enterprise Institute) to school the children, pontificate on the problem with third parties and why America owes Al Gore an apology, and take a walk down Declaration of Independence lane.

Show Notes:
—Vintage Jonah for National Review: “Is Gore An Alien?”
—Jonah’s installment in The Dispatch's The Next 250 series
—Chris Stirewalt on Calvin Coolidge
—Calvin Coolidge, “Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration”

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Happy Independence Day, Comrade Jul 04, 2025

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It’s America’s 249th birthday, and Jonah Goldberg has something to say about Trump’s not-so-beautiful bill, his AI fatigue, the communist cosplay run amok on the left, and the rockstar lineup of The Dispatchcontributors. Plus: some good, old-fashioned, Kristol-style patriotism and heady lamentations on revolutions.

Show Notes:
—The Wednesday G-File (not written by AI)
—Jeremiah Johnson on The Remnant
—The Dispatch's contributing writer roster
—Irving Kristol: “The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution”

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Millionaires For Socialism Jul 03, 2025

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Jeremiah Johnson—a Dispatch contributor, first-timeguest, and cofounder of the Center for New Liberalism—stops by Chez Remnant to discuss the futility of litigating political taxonomy, the theater kid campaign approach, the connection between innovation and populism, and Jonah Goldberg’s lower-case liberal propensities.

Show Notes:
—Jeremiah’s Substack: Infinite Scrolls
—Jeremiah’s writing for The Dispatch
—Learn more about the Center for New Liberalism

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Conservatism, if You Can Keep It Jul 02, 2025

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In yet another counter-programming episode of The Remnant, Matthew Continetti, director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. and the past, present, and future of American conservatism.

Show Notes:
—Sam Tanenhaus' Buckley Biography
—William F. Buckley Jr. at 100: The State of American Conservatism

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Zohran Zealots Jun 28, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg is Rocky Mountain High and ready to lambaste the electric vehicle industry, the burden of networking, lessons from military interventions past, and Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary victory in New York City.

Show Notes:
—Last Wednesday’s G-File
—Nate Cohn for the New York Times: “If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost”
—America at 250 Project: The American Enterprise Institute

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The Goldberg Doctrine Jun 25, 2025

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Once upon a time, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, set off to make a name for himself in American political commentary … only to discover that some other guy had the same idea. At long last, Jeffrey and Jonah Goldberg convene at the Agincourt of podcasting to discuss the tenuous ceasefire between Iran and Israel, the mystical Obama Doctrine, and that SignalGate debacle.

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What Comes Around Goes Around Jun 24, 2025

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Eli Lake, host of Breaking History and columnist at The Free Press, joins Jonah Goldberg to ruminate upon the the United States’ recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and the wider implications. Were they constitutional? Is regime change next?Plus: Jonah and Eli’s thoughts on Bill Buckley and American conservatism.Show Notes:
—Eli Lake's Breaking History podcast
—Jeane Kirkpatrick on dictatorshipThe 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, regularly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here.

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The New Right’s Red Line Jun 21, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg has spent the week knee-deep in eggheadery of the highest order and must alleviate himself from the resonant voices in his head. Therefore, today’s Ruminant presents listeners with an hour of punditry on Israel and its existential value, the painful Ted Cruz-Tucker Carlson interview, the sorry tale of the Golden Goose, and liberal theory run amok.

Show Notes:
—The G-File: Why We Care About Israel
—The G-File: The Inevitable Splintering To Come
—Dr. Jeffrey Collins on The Remnant

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Classically Understood Jun 19, 2025

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Dr. Jeffrey Collins, first-time guest and professor at the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida, joins Jonah Goldberg to explore the intellectual history of liberalism and its modern iterations.

Show Notes:
—Jeffrey Collins' bio
—Daniel Burns' National Affairs Piece: "Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory"

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