The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Latest Episodes:

The Mediocre Idiots of Monocausality Mar 30, 2024

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Jonah ruminates on the UN Special Rapporteur's report alleging genocide in Gaza and the minimization of sexual violence on October 7. And if you weren't day-drinking yet, he then kvetches about lousy concepts of social justice, the Ronna McDaniel-NBC News controversy, and the growing urge to oversimplify complex topics with monocausal explanations.Show Notes:

—UN Special Rapporteur's report

—ABC News report on random punching incident

—Protests at Vanderbilt

—Jonah's LA Times article on October 9

—John Spencer

—The Remnant with Jonathan Haidt

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The Great Rewiring of Childhood Mar 28, 2024

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Jonathan Haidt makes his long-heralded return to The Remnant to discuss his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. He and Jonah discuss the unique issues facing Gen Z and the mental health crisis brought on by the proliferation of smartphones and social media. And unlike many other public intellectuals, Haidt has solutions. In regular Remnant fashion, Jonah also steers the conversation into the differences between the French and English Enlightenment, and how understandings of human nature can affect how we parent.

Show Notes:

—The Coddling of the American Mind

—The Remnant with Rob Henderson

—The Remnant with Tim Carney

—What the Web Needs: More Gated Communities

—New York Magazine on the freedom of sex

—Hayek's Nobel speech

—Heterodox Academy website

—Let Grow website

—The Anxious Generation website

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Grandma Was Right Mar 27, 2024

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Rob Henderson, a psychologist and author, makes his Remnant debut to discuss his new book Troubled: A Memoir of Family, Foster Care, and Social Class. Growing up in poverty and moving through multiple foster homes in California, Henderson noticed a disparity between elite beliefs and the actual tools he used to climb the social ladder. The two explore this concept of "luxury beliefs," our screwed up foster care system, the arguments for mandatory public service, and more.

Show Notes:

—Rob's newsletter

—Rasmussen report on Affirmative Action

—The Remnant with Brad Wilcox

—The Remnant with Tim Carney

—Atomic Habits

—Charles Murray's review of Rob's book

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Whigged Out Mar 23, 2024

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Jonah reaches new heights of self-indulgence on today's Ruminant, explaining why he's a soft Whig and why Romanticism is making everything worse. Devoted listeners will be quick to catch a whiff of Suicide of the West as Jonah veers to discuss the origin of identity politics and the structural resilience of liberal democracies. Have your bingo cards and German dictionaries at the ready.

Show Notes:

—The Remnant with Allen Guelzo

—Jonah: Days of Future Past

—Suicide of the West

—Orwell's Notes on Nationalism

—Wednesday's G-File

—The Remnant with Tim Carney

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Make More Kids Mar 21, 2024

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Having endured years of Jonah's targeted bullying campaign, AEI senior fellow Tim Carney joins the pod to celebrate the release of his new book Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture is Making it Harder to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Children. The two discuss why millennials aren’t having kids, why being a father in public is stigmatized, and whether feminism is undoing itself.

Show Notes:

-Germany’s birth rates are dropping

-Rethinking Sex: A Provocation

-Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

-Michelle Goldberg on Family Friendly in the New York Times

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Our Ancient Faith Mar 20, 2024

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Jonah invites prolific historian, scholar, and author Allen C. Guelzo, to discuss his new book, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment, and has plenty of questions: What does Abraham Lincoln tell us about democracy? Why did Lincoln call himself a conservative? What went wrong with the revolutions of the 1840s? What does Lincoln tell us about the rise of post-liberalism? Stay tuned for the usual highfalutin discussions on conservative intellectual history.

Show Notes:

—Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

—Guelzo's website

—Christopher DeMuth: Why America Needs National Conservatism

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War Pigs Mar 16, 2024

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Jonah overcomes his flu-induced hallucinations and ruminates on the current attempt by Congress to force a sale of TikTok and Trump's suspicious flip-flop on the issue. The hallucinations reappearing, Jonah begins to complain about the bots on Twitter making dumb arguments for isolationism and ending Ukraine aid. With whatever sanity he has left he argues against Chuck Schumer's call for new elections in Israel and explains the importance of commitment to allies.

Show Notes:

—The Dispatch editorial

—Boiling Frogs on TikTok divestment

—ISW: The Kremlin's Occupation Playbook

—Jonah's LA Times article on the use of "genocide"

—Sen. Schumer calls for new elections in Israel

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Destroying Hamas Mar 14, 2024

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Dan Senor, author of The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World and host of Call Me Back with Dan Senor, returns to discuss the state of Israel's war against Hamas as the IDF begins to move into Rafah. How is Israeli society holding up? What should we make of growing accusations of genocide? Can Israel achieve its military objectives? What do Israelis think about American politics? And what is does future for Jews in America look like?

Show Notes:

—Tablet: How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers

—John Podhoretz: They’re Coming After Us

—Dan Senor's previous appearance on The Remnant

—Jonah: The Many Problems With Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza

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Be Less Thirsty Mar 13, 2024

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Chris Stirewalt, the Arby's of punditry and host of The Hill Sunday, was so eager to return to The Remnant that he joined in the midst of another episode. Awkwardness overcome, the two tackle the big questions: Why can't we learn our lesson? Where are Nikki Haley voters going come November? How should we interpret primary turnout? When will the reckoning come? And why can't democrats figure out crime? Chris "Unpledged Delegate" Stirewalt has the answers.

Show Notes:

—The Hill Sunday

—Jonah's LA Times column on the GOP establishment

—Skiff AMA 3

—Dune Part Two Skiff

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Take a Deep Breath Mar 09, 2024

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Jonah reassures listeners on today’s Ruminant that this election is not a Flight 93 election and America as we know it will not end come January 2025. He then turns to comment on the Supreme Court ruling that Colorado can’t disqualify Trump from their ballots and the growing treatment of presidents as monarchs. And just as you thought you avoided more State of the Union rank punditry...

Show Notes:

—G-File: Apocalypse Not

—The Dispatch editorial: The American People Should Demand Better

—Advisory Opinions on the Colorado SCOTUS decision

—The Dispatch's new newsletter Techne

—The Skiff on Dune: Part Two

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