The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Latest Episodes:

31 Flavors of Felonies Jun 06, 2024

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Dispatch senior editor Mike Warren capitulates to Jonah’s pleas for a spontaneous conversation to unpack the various legal woes plaguing the news cycle this week. Plea deals fall apart, guns are found in dumpsters, and hush money is paid. As usual, there are political implications and lots of both sides-isms. Stayed tuned for the down low on Mar-a-Lago, some Supreme Court speculation, and Jonah and Mike’s takes as to why the media leans to the left.

Show Notes:

—The Joe Biden interview In question

—Project 2025

—The Prince of Darkness by Robert D. Novak

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A Woke Hangover Jun 05, 2024

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The wonderful Nellie Bowles joins Jonah to discuss her new book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History. Score some Remnant bingo points for a conversation on topics including (but certainly not limited to) the “Abolish the Police” movement, the hypocrisy of progressivism, the importance of skeptics, and memory-holing.

Show Notes:

—Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

—Nellie on Honestly with Bari Weiss

—The Intellectual Dark Web

—The Dan Rather Incident

—The New York Times on the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory

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Bad Karma-Lago Jun 01, 2024

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On this week’s Ruminant, Jonah drinks coffee and remembers things. Topics include his thoughts on the newest installment of the Mad Max franchise, Donald Trump’s karmic retribution, and a Muslim exotic dancer named Lulu. He also touches on the state (or lack thereof) of the alt-right, and responds to the critiques of Wednesday’s G-File.

Show Notes

—Chris Hemsworth’s Prosthetic Nose

—Trump’s Guilty Verdict (and the subsequent reactions)

—Auditions for Trump’s VP Ticket

—“Radical Chic” Politics

—Wednesday's G-File

—The Rise and Fall of the Alt-Right

—Why Islam needs a Pope

—Bigotry and Crackpots on the Right

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Black Panther Breakfast Club May 30, 2024

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Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan joins Jonah for an episode that bounces from topic to topic, from the “trans thing” to the COVID-10 lockdowns and the failure of the modern-day lefties. Take out your daubers for a number of bingo card call-outs and stay tuned for a sentence Jonah’s never uttered before.

Show Notes:

—Alice Walker's issue with the Jews

—Tom Wolfe's "The Great Relearning" essay

—UCLA medical school's racial quotas

—Jesse Singal's Remnant appearance

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You Had Me at Middle Aged May 29, 2024

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Jonah hijacks the GLoP Culture podcast, kicks John Podhoretz out of the driver’s seat, and floors it into The Remnant feed with Rob Long sitting shotgun. They discuss Rob’s Come to Jesus moment, Jonah’s crass words to Jon Karl (are there any dues?), and of course, a little bit of pop culture. Stick around to hear hot takes on improv, The Fall Guy, and Frosted. And John, we know you’re listening.

Show Notes:

—Rob Long's X profile

—GLoP on Apple Podcasts

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Panics and Maniacs May 25, 2024

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Jonah picks a fight with the alts—both left and right—on this episode of TheRuminant, with a healthy dose of both-sides-are-wrong argumentation. Tune in for thoughts on Justice Samuel Alito’s flag-gate, President Joe Biden’s commencement speech at Morehouse College, and America’s proud (?) history of moral panics.

Show Notes:

—AO episode on Alito flag incident

—Biden’s Morehouse College commencement address

—Ken Pollack on The Remnant

—Countries recognizing a Palestinian state

—Michael Warren’s piece on the Mar-A-Lago raid

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Theological Jurisprudence May 23, 2024

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Ken Pollack, a Remnant all-star and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah for an extended discussion on the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the race to be the supreme leader’s successor. The two also get into the various Iran appeasement campaigns, Biden’s approach to Israel, and the necessity of the United Nations.

Show Notes:

—Reuters reporting on the Ayatollah’s successor

—Ken’s profile at AEI

—Ken’s profile at Georgetown

—Ken’s most recent book, Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness

—This week’s Dispatch Live

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The Garden of Earthly Barbarians May 22, 2024

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Jonah invites Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, to discuss the ideal way to raise little barbarians—also known as human babies. The two weed through the metaphors of garden parenting vs. carpentry parenting and the need of being needed before making a small segue into caregiving policy ideas. (The government can’t love you, Jonah!)

Show Notes:

—Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel Prize speech

—Jonathan Haidt on The Remnant

—Tim Carney on The Remnant

—Sarah Hardy’s book on mothers

—Paul Bloom on The Remnant

—AEI’s social survey

—Alison Gopnik’s “Theory theory”

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Man vs. Bear, Revisited May 18, 2024

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Stranded on a highway, gazing into the smoggy horizon, Jonah contemplates plaintively social media's latest display of statistical illiteracy demonstrated by a proclaimed preference of many women to be stranded alone with a bear, rather than a man. If you were wondering why you all didn't receive a G-File today, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it.

Show Notes:

—Nick Catoggio’s “Never Trump” piece

—Wednesday G-File

—Last week’s Dispatch Podcast

—Megan McArdle on man vs. bear

—Jean Twenge on The Remnant

—Jonathan Haidt on The Remnant

—Liberal Fascism

—Yesterday’s Dispatch Podcast

—The Remnant on prices

—Ghosted by Nancy French

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Fair Markets for Me, Protectionism for Thee May 16, 2024

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Get your bingo cards at the ready, because Jonah is joined by Ryan Bourne—a policy scholar at the Cato Institute and author of The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy—for a decisively wonky Remnant on all things prices. What are prices? Why doesn’t price fixing work? And what's up with the libertarians?

Show Notes:

—Ryan's new book The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy

—Ryan’s profile at Cato

—Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

—Suicide of the West

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