The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Appeasing the New Axis Mar 19, 2025

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Clifford D. May, founder and director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, enters The Remnant multiverse with Jonah Goldberg to reevaluate the world stage and all its conflicts. Cliff and Jonah debate who’s leading the new Axis of Evil and dig into the growing trend of expansionist politics and the depressing lack of fact-based arguments in contemporary foreign policy.Show Notes:

—Listen to the "Foreign Policy" podcast

—Learn more about FDD

—The Wall Street Journal: “The Painting That Explains Trump’s Foreign Policy”

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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Free Speech A-holes Mar 15, 2025

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An overserved and hungover Jonah Goldberg gets into arguments with ChatGPT, picks fights with free speech “martyrs,” and offers a unified theory of Trumpism, all in a day’s Ruminant.

Show Notes:

—Jim Geraghty for National Review: “Why the Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal is No Cause for Celebration”

—Jake Meador for The Dispatch: “The Perils of Positive Thinking”

—The Wednesday G-File in question

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The Mom and Pop School of Business Mar 13, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg has gone AWOL, and Kevin Williamson of Dispatch fame has risen to the task of Remnant hosting duties. Kevin is joined by Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg to discuss their new book, The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions. The trio covers crony capitalism, how businesses can succeed amid political chaos, and how family enterprises can survive the breakneck speed of social change.

Show Notes:

—Devin and Ivan for Salon: “The Return of Crony Capitalism”

—Order The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions.

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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Reciprocal Deficit Deficiency Mar 12, 2025

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There’s a whole lot of red on various stock market indices this week, so Jonah Goldberg has conscripted Michael Strain, director of economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute, to talk money. Topics include: the likelihood of recession, tumultuous trade policy, and Jonah’s crusade against the cryptocurrency reserve.

Show Notes:

—Cato Institute: “The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934”

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The Present Creates the Past Mar 08, 2025

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After sufficiently kvetching over Weimar-style cigar inflation, Jonah Goldberg ruminates upon Donald Trump tripping over tariffs, the abhorrent actions of the Department of Justice regarding the Eric Adams case, and the insanity of the proposed crypto reserve. Plus: the fallout from last week's Oval Office disaster and a grim prediction for the next three years.

Show Notes:

—Scott Linsciome in The Dispatch: “‘Reciprocal Tariffs’ Are Trump’s Worst Trade Idea Yet”

—Burke's “Birds of Prey” speech

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Sufficient Opposition Mar 06, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg came to the Remnant studio exhausted by his nightshift at the cable news factory, so he enlisted one Brother Chris Stirewalt to save the show once again. Jonah and Chris analyze Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress from all angles, including but not limited to the Democrat’s shenanigans and the reviled Wilsonian origins of the State of the Union address.

Show Notes:

—Brother Stirewalt for The Hill: “Separating Show and Substance as Trump Addresses Congress”

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Keynesian Kayfabe Mar 05, 2025

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Jonah Goldberg is joined by author and research analyst Ross Benes to discuss his new book, 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. Jonah and Ross discuss beanie babies as a precursor to crypto, the political triumph of the WWE, and the age of media deregulation. Plus: the phenomenology of moral panics and the bourgeois-ification of transgressive culture.

Show Notes:

—1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times

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The Delicious Lamentations of Priests Mar 01, 2025

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From the civilizational lynchpin of gratitude to the misplaced obsession with diplomacy to MAGA’s mafia style of governance, today’s Ruminant will be a one deep cut after another for Suicide of the West readers. There will also be one or two I-told-you-so’s.Show Notes:

—Return to the source material and order Suicide of the West

—G-File: “The Democrats Dilemma”

—Vintage Goldberg in National Review: “The European Miracle”

—Infinite Scroll: “MAGA as Master Morality”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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Bonus: The Oval Office Ambush Feb 28, 2025

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A Ruminant of Homeric length about the distress of the liberal world order will be released tomorrow, but the fallout from the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump today necessitated a rapid emergency rant. Enjoy your bonus episode and the sunsetting of American honor.

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Buckley’s Book Club Feb 27, 2025

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Christopher Scalia, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, stops by the show to drop some culture on one Jonah Goldberg. The two discuss all things literature and what great books could give the conservative movement.

Plus: George Eliot’s conception of nationalism and Jonah’s thoughts on the new season of Severance.

Show Notes:

—Pre-order: 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)

—Listen to “The Back of the Book” podcast

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