The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Keep It Short, Goldberg Jun 29, 2024

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There are days in media that call upon the entire newsroom to fuel up on caffeine and join in camaraderie to produce timely, round-the-clock coverage. Then there are days that leave a producer waiting lonesomely for a Ruminant recording until 11p, while the interns are out drinking, the staff long asleep, and the research assistant returned to the locked basement under the trapdoor where she slumbers and dreams about her vanishing youth and Il Duce's future show notes. But come rain or come shine, this Ruminant will be out, speedrunning through topics including the balmy days of Georgia, the furies of President Biden, and the dehumanizing language of Mr. Goldberg.

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Fatally Flawed Jun 27, 2024

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With Jonah still MIA, Chris Stirewalt returns as Remnant guest host extraordinaire, joined by Benn Steil, director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss Steil’s latest book and determine if the bizarreHenry Wallace was a noble man of the soil, an unsophisticated victim, or vindictive villain. To determine how Wallace changed the course of history, Stirewalt and Steil discuss the Soviet Union’s duping of an Einsteinian genius, the cult of Nicholas Roerich, and why you should never slaughter 6 million pigs.

Show Notes:

— Chris' American Enterprise Institute page

— Benn Steil’s The World that Wasn’t

— Benn Steil’s The Marshall Plan

— Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States

— Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding’s “The Farm Legacy of Henry Wallace: Regressive Subsidies”

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Wonky Wednesday Jun 26, 2024

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Jonah abdicates his duties and conscripts Dispatch national correspondent Kevin D. Williamson to pick up the slack. Kevin is joined by Kent Lassman, the president and CEO of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to discuss Adam Smith, free trade, and the recent SCOTUS verdict on Moore v. U.S. Kevin and Lassman shoulder the Sisyphean burden of decoding tax law, discuss the miracle of American innovation, and debate the hot question of punditlandia: Who should make law?

Show Notes:

-Follow Kevin’s work at The Dispatch

-Kent’s CEI Page

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Disunity Jun 22, 2024

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On this week’s installment of The Ruminant, Jonah talks about all the things he says he doesn’t want to talk about. Digs are thrown at tariffs, the administrative state, popular fronts, and executive orders. The definitions of unity and democracy are debated as Jonah bushwhacks the path towards productive political debate. To close it all out, Jonah revisits the Juneteenth discourse and addresses his Soviet kerfuffle with Niall Ferguson.

Show Notes:—Kevin Williamson for The Dispatch: An Economic Policy that’s Just a Little Bit Radical

—Scott Lincicome for The Dispatch: Trump's Latest Tariff Idea is Dangerously Foolish

—David French for Advisory Opinions on the administrative state

—Suicide of the West

—Charles Murray: By the People

—Jonah’s piece on Juneteenth: American Passover

—Niall Ferguson for The Free Press: We’re All Soviets Now

—Jonah’s Rebuttal

—Subscribe to Dispatch Faith

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Grand Old Vibes Jun 20, 2024

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Remnant mainstay Matthew Continetti, director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah for a trip to think-tanklandia. Rank punditry abounds: Joe Biden’s identity crisis is discussed, the vibes of the American electorate are analyzed, immigration policy is considered, and laughs are had all around. As a treat for all 16 listeners who care, Matt and Jonah revisit the recent Ruminant diatribe on neoconservatism and review the new hit reality TV show that is the United States Senate.

Show Notes:

-The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservativism

-Matt’s AEI page

-Matt’s new Commentary Magazine piece: Who Will Speak for America?

-The Conservative Manifesto

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Labour Pains Jun 19, 2024

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Francis Dearnley, assistant comment editor at The Telegraph and host of the daily “Ukraine: The Latest” podcast, joins Jonah to dig into the wide, Whiggish world of British politics. Francis helps those of us in the former colony understand the who’s and what’s of British conservatism, the B-word (Brexit, that is), and the failures of U.K. immigration policy. Francis and Jonah continue this brilliant edition of The Remnant by discussing the anti-Israel demonstrations in the U.K., the future of war in Ukraine, and how Russia can be defeated.

Show Notes:

—Follow Francis on X

—The New York Times: The Enduring Importance of the 1965 Immigration Act

—Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood

—Douglas Murray: How Mass Immigration Makes Antisemitism Worse

—George Orwell: Second Thoughts on James Burnham

—The Rest is History Podcast

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Teleology Takedowns Jun 15, 2024

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First and foremost, Jonah clears up the controversy surrounding The Dispatch cake-gate and discusses the rats that live in his walls. Topics for this week’s Ruminant include Donald Trump’s return to the Capitol, the true intentions of free-speech absolutists, the insidious nature of the Hamas PR team, and the most recent episode of The Skiff with David French. Jonah condemns trolling and partisan point-scoring and continues to pontificate on Hunter Biden’s legal woes.

Show Notes:

—Targeting of Jewish Homes in New York

—Matt Continetti for the Free Beacon: No Haven for Hamas

—David French on The Skiff

—The Dispatch Podcast on Justice Alito

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Kicking Sasse & Taking Names Jun 13, 2024

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Ben Sasse, former U.S. senator and current president of the University of Florida, stops by for a fantastic conversation covering college admission reforms, the most sought after job in higher education, problems facing collegiate history departments (and how to solve them), and the roots of the recent campus protests. In order to avoid Sasse’s desire to discuss the College World Series, Jonah asks the big question: Where have all the good politicians gone?

Show Notes:

-The Hamilton Center at the University of Florida

-Washington’s Farewell Address

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A Constitutional Revival Jun 12, 2024

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The one and only Yuval Levin, director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah to discuss his new book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—And Could Again. Jonah peppers Yuval with a variety of questions: Is the Constitution a cultural document or a document that creates the culture? Why are the principles of the Constitution so hard to export? How do we interpret the Civil War-era amendments? Buckle in for a deep dive on unity, the Electoral College, and a healthy dose of Woodrow Wilson slander.

Show Notes:

—American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation-And Could Again

—Yuval’s AEI Page

—Federalist 10

—The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution

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The New Neocons Jun 08, 2024

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Jonah has been dog-less and alone in his house for too long. Consequently, today’s Ruminant delves with unrepentant granularity into the history of neoconservatism. From its founders to its detractors, Jonah gives the full sweep, and all to grapple with a single question: Is the current crop of left-skeptic liberals—including Nellie Bowles, Yascha Mounk, John McWhorter, et al.—really just a new batch of neocons?

Show Notes:

—The Cult of the Presidency by Gene Healy

—Michael Crowley’s profile of Joe Biden (2001)

—“Civil Liberties” by Irving Kristol

—“The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution” by Irving Kristol

—The Remnant with Nellie Bowles

—The Remnant with Yascha Monunk

—The Remnant with John McWhorter

—The Remnant with Jonathan Haidt

—The Remnant with Richard Reeves

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