The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Latest Episodes:

Sinister Stupidity or Stupid Sinisterness? Jan 20, 2024

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Jonah is in a suspiciously pleasant mood coming off The Dispatch's live event in New Hampshire but regular disclaimers of tiredness still apply. Before replaying the Ruminant's greatest hits, he criticizes Rand Paul's ironic response to Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity, explains how 2024 might begin to look like 2016, and kvetches about the anti-Trump crowd's catastrophization. Stick around for some ruminations on doggy eugenics.

Show Notes:

— Trump's "full immunity" truth

— Rand Paul's filibuster against John Brennan

—G-File: The Unpopular Vote

—Jonah: Mau-Mauing the Dogcatcher

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The Crook and the Coot Jan 18, 2024

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While Jonah heads to New Hampshire, Chris “Dixville’s Notch” Stirewalt reassumes his rightful position as chief poobah of The Remnant. He’s joined by Christine Rosen—AEI senior fellow, Commentary magazine columnist, and noted “quiet car Karen”—to discuss the state of the 2024 election as we approach the New Hampshire primary. At this point, it seems certain that Trump will be the GOP nominee, but what will this mean for his opponents? For that matter, who will be his running mate? Is America still like The Handmaid’s Tale? And should people who eat loud snacks on airplanes be shown no mercy?

Show Notes:

- Christine’s AEI webpage

- Trump takes the lead in New Hampshire

- Chris discusses the 2024 election at AEI

- Chris: “Haley’s Narrow Path Runs Across DeSantis’ 2028 Ambitions”

- Watch this episode on YouTube

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Pity the Pundits Jan 17, 2024

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Ross Douthat is back on TheRemnant to provide a post-mortem for the Iowa caucuses. With the first result of the race now in, is Donald Trump’s renomination guaranteed? Where did Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley go wrong? Would a second Trump administration be staffed entirely by crazy people? And could a Trump-Biden rematch cause Jonah and Ross to rethink their life choices?

Show Notes:

-Watch this episode on YouTube

-Ross: “How Trump’s Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him”

-Ross’ 2020 book, The Decadent Society

-Ramesh Ponnuru: “The 2024 Campaign Has Left Republicans in a State of Confusion”

-Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

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Are We Done Yet? Jan 13, 2024

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Full of rage and regret, Jonah reconsiders the life choices that led to him watching the interminable DeSantis-Haley debate start to finish, and plans to inflict his pain on listeners. He also revisits his argument about Hitler inflation in Democratic electioneering, and, at a listener's request, considers the ties between DEI and Marxism.

Show Notes

Jonah's Never Go Full Hitler

Jonah on CNN (DEI debate)

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White’s Fright Jan 11, 2024

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Determined to prove that Advisory Opinions is merely a niche secondary podcast, Jonah is joined today by Adam White—the American Enterprise Institute’s resident law-talkin’ guy—to ramble through the latest in legal controversies. Topics on the docket include a potential Biden impeachment, legal threats to Donald Trump, and how the Supreme Court is holding up in these turbulent times. Plus, tune in to find out if America will ever become a land without lawyers.

Show Notes:

—Adam: “Common Law Judgements, Common Sense Justices”

—Kurt Lash on the 14th Amendment

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Stolen Mo-ments Jan 10, 2024

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Get your bingo cards ready, because Remnant stalwart Mo Elleithee makes an overdue return to the program to kvetch about some familiar topics. Mo believes that we’re heading for a terrifying 2020 rematch. But could one of Donald Trump’s opponents still make a comeback, and will Joe Biden manage to make it through a full campaign? For that matter, what’s wrong with American elites? How can we reverse declining trust in institutions? And how did Jonah come to have more hatred for primaries than life itself?

Show notes:

- Watch this episode on YouTube

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Pilsners with Presidents Jan 06, 2024

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Hungover from a night of CNN debate wonkery and inadequately caffeinated, Jonah provides an especially nerdy Ruminant covering yesterday’s town hall with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, the strange desire to have a beer with presidential candidates, and the Biden administration’s lacking response to the Houthis, the latter inevitably leading to a lengthy defense of having a Navy. He discusses all of this while leaving enough (probably too much) time for the reification of diversity and some lousy defenses on behalf of Claudine Gay.

Show notes:

- Yesterday's Dispatch Podcast

- Jonah’s piece on Haley’s civil war answer

- Jonah’s most recent G-File on Claudine Gay

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Theory, Properly Misunderstood Jan 04, 2024

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Jonah completes his American Enterprise Institute hat trick on today’s Remnant with Yuval Levin, AEI’s director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies. The two start with some hesitant media criticism of the reaction to Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation before turning to the novelty, or lack thereof, of the oppressor-oppressed paradigm, the usefulness of horseshoe theory, and the need for strong institutions. Prepare your bingo cards.

Show notes:

- Yuval's AEI page

- Conservatism as an Ideology by Samuel Huntington

- Jonah's LA Times column on horseshoe theory

- AEI Summer Honors Program

- Watch this episode on YouTube

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The Year in Preview Jan 03, 2024

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It’s finally 2024, but instead of looking ahead with optimism, Jonah would rather use The Remnant to kvetch about the many lows of last year. Today, he’s joined by Matthew Continetti—still adjusting to his new role as the American Enterprise Institute’s leading corporate suit—to decide whether 2023 should be considered the worst year in modern political history. But given the unfolding presidential race, is 2024 shaping up to be any better? Is a Trump renomination guaranteed? And will Biden even make it to the finish line?

Show Notes:

- Matt’s AEI webpage

- Jonah: “Nikki Haley’s Slavery Gaffe Is a Rare Misstep From a Good Politician”

- Robert Kagan on a Trump dictatorship

- Matthew Schmitz: “The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianism”

- Video version

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All the Pretty Horseshoes Dec 30, 2023

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Of all the (many) things Jonah hates, he has a unique resentment for the concept of New Year’s Eve. If you share his disdain for the holiday, then try ringing in 2024 with the bitter grumblings of today’s discombobulated, needlessly lengthy Ruminant rather than a trip to Times Square or an overpriced prix-fixe dinner. As usual, a number of urgent questions are addressed: Could Nikki Haley’s recent slavery gaffe tank her campaign? Why is partisanship problematic? What’s the latest on the war in Israel? And how did Jonah learn to stop worrying and (sort of) love horseshoe theory?

Show Notes:

- Jeff Blehar: “Nikki Haley’s Sin Isn’t Racism”

- Jonah: “The Left’s Whackjob Problem—and Ours”

- Michael Lind: “The New National American Elite”

- Jonah: “New Year’s Kiss-Off”

- Jonah: “The Year of the Horseshoe Theory”

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