The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Wire-Hanger Billionaires Aren’t Evil | Ruminant May 09, 2026

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After reading a mildly depressing script handed him by the suits in the Dispatch C-suite, Jonah Goldberg rallies to take a bludgeon to democratic economic illiteracy. Along the way, he ruminates on the Indiana primaries, RINOs, Trump as a caricature, Rubio vs. Vance, sycophant tryouts, AOC’s voice, California’s gubernatorial race, billionaires earning their money, Napoleon, liberalism’s definition, and Iran.

Show Notes:
—How to Access Your Members-Only Remnant Feed
—Friday’s Dispod
—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West
—AOC on billionaires
—Klein and Thompson: Abundance
—Last week’s Ruminant on Hegel
—Remnant with Adrian Wooldridge
—Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

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Circling Liberalism’s Wagons | Interview: Adrian Wooldridge May 06, 2026

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It’s Brit week here on The Remnant, and after starting off with a crowd-pleaser (Charlie Cooke), Jonah Goldberg decided to follow up with someone new. Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, joins Jonah to talk about the meaning of liberalism, limiting principles, immigration, tolerance, individualism, non-Western liberalism, Big Tech, kids, public broadcasting, FDR, positive liberties, John Stuart Mill, and the transatlantic A\alliance.

Show Notes:
—Adrian Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
—David Brooks: Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
—Daniel Burns in National Affairs: “Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory”
—Larry Siedentop: Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
—Jonah’s last book: Suicide of the West
—Hannah Arendt Remnant

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Gettin’ Wonky on the Unitary Executive | Interview: Charlie Cooke May 04, 2026

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In honor of King Charles’ visit to the United States, Jonah has invited his favorite Brit (by birth) to come on The Remnant for some knockdown, drag-out sparring over the unitary executive theory and the threat posed by illiberal conservatives. Along the way, Jonah and Charlie also discuss vaccines in Florida, gerrymandering, Clarence Thomas’ recent University of Texas speech, progressivism, classical liberalism, Donald Trump’s “mean tweets,” and court packing.

Show Notes:
—Charlie’s last appearance on The Remnant
—Sarah Isgur on The Charles C.W. Cooke Podcast
—The Clarence Thomas Lecture at the University of Texas at Austin
—The Editors Podcast
—The Rest Is History—Britain in the 70s

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A Helping of Hegel and a Morsel of Marx May 02, 2026

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Plus: Peruvian spiders.
People go to Los Angeles for lots of reasons: fame, money, food, outstanding weather, love of the movies, hatred of themselves, etc. Jonah Goldberg, perhaps uniquely, goes to philosophize. After ruminating on his attendance at a super swanky film festival, Jonah gives a crash course on Hegel, Trump as a world-historical figure, the imperial Roman Republic, Marxism as a shibboleth, unpatriotic librarians, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Baptists and bootleggers, and Maine’s new Nazi-tattooed Democratic Senate nominee.
Show Notes:
—John B. Judis: “What Hegel Knew About Trump”
—“The YOLO Presidency: Trump is focused on becoming one of history’s ‘great men.’”
—Tyler Austin Harper Remnant
—Jonah’s column on librarians and book bans
—The End of History and the Last Man
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—Thursday Commentary Podcast

—Standing Athwart Hegel, Yelling ‘Stop!’

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The Uses of Marxism | Interview: Tyler Austin Harper Apr 29, 2026

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Sometimes, even intellectual heavyweights like Jonah Goldberg can’t make out what’s going on on the other side of the aisle. Finding himself in need of an interpreter, Jonah turns to Atlantic columnist Tyler Austin Harper for a liberal-inflected look at Hasan Piker, the uses of Marxism, name-checking, human nature, the increasing appeal of the Butlerian Jihad, evolution, taboos, the failures of centrism, limits, and much, much more.

Show Notes:
—Last Remnant with Tyler Austin Harper
—Time to Say Goodbye Pod
—Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column
—Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
—The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
—Jonah’s underrated second book
—The Rest Is History—Britain in the 70s

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Resiliency and Change | Interview: Liz Hoffman Apr 27, 2026

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What will the war in Iran do to global markets? Does Donald Trump have a consistent approach to the economy? Should Jonah Goldberg invest in Flex Seal? For answers to these questions and more, join Jonah as he sits down with business and finance journalist Liz Hoffman to talk about the state of the economy, AI, the Fed, inflation, Polymarket, crypto, the dollar, bonds, COVID, supply chains, and where the market goes from here.

Show Notes:
—Compound Interest from Semafor Business
—Marketplace Podcast
—John Arnold on Compound Interest
—Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on theBrink

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Progressivism Misunderstood Apr 25, 2026

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the Iran war and the confusion coming out of the White House, the Whole Foods bandit and why theft is bad, and Justice Clarence Thomas' speech at the University of Texas at Austin.
Show notes:
—The Tolentino backlash
—Justice Clarence Thomas' speech at the University of Texas
—Friday's Dispatch Podcast
—G-File on JCPOA+
—Friday's G-File

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America’s Greatest Public Servant | Interview: Bob Crawford Apr 22, 2026

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To the great dismay of fans of Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover, John Quincy Adams has been officially awarded The Remnant’s not-so-endowed chair of American public service. Joining Jonah Goldberg on the show today to make the case for Adams is Bob Crawford, historian and former bass player for The Avett Brothers. Bob and Jonah discuss Adams' brilliant career, his relationship with Andew Jackson, and his powerful rhetoric, along with the populist/elitist dynamic, the oddity of majority parties, abolitionism, the Amistad case, and Congress’s infamous gag rule.

Show Notes:
—America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick
—Jonah on Bob Crawford’s podcast

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War, Terrible and Awful | Interview: Mick Ryan Apr 20, 2026

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Aussie-Remnant relations have always been strong, so we bring you yet another guest from the antipode continent. Retired Australian Army Maj. Gen. Mick Ryan joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the war in Iran, Putin’s predicament in Ukraine, Russia’s long-term strategy, Trump’s mob-boss mindset, the gamification of drone warfare, civilian/military relations, American preparedness for war with China, Taiwan’s willingness to defend itself, and the future of war.

Show Notes:
—Mick Ryan’s Substack

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Boba Tea and Swahili-Themed Lesbian Poetry | Ruminant Apr 18, 2026

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Buckle up! Jonah’s back and ready to ruminate on the Windy City, Eric Swalwell, Trump vs. Leo, Orbán and J.D., just war, Father Coughlin, Israel, the unified antisemitic front, and Ralph Nader’s sweet, sweet humus.
Plus, a red-hot take on the Trump-as-Jesus pic.
Show Notes:
—Jonah in The Dispatch: “The American Revolution Was a Really Big Deal”
—NYT: “How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran”
—Ramesh Ponnuru on just war
—Last Friday’s G-File
—Jonah’s LA Times column
—Mike Pesca: ‘What Kind of Autocrat Loses an Election?”
—Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the Munich Security Conference
—Hegseth on the media and the pharisees
—Roy Altman Remnant
—Wednesday G-File
—Jonah’s book: Liberal Fascism
—Ana Kasparian and Nick Fuentes in lock step
—“On The Jewish Question” by Karl Marx
—Ross Douthat Remnant
—James Kirchick in NR: “Blaming the Jews, Again”
—Justice Thomas Speaks in Honor of 250th Anniversary of U.S.