The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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History in the Making Jun 27, 2020

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It’s the weekend, therefore it’s time for another Ruminant. This time, it’s a monologue in which Jonah truly realizes how Remnant-y he’s really become. In his own words, “the point of conservatism is not to get the Republican Party elected.” In short, this is a “down with majoritarianism, up with principles” kind of episode.

Show Notes:

-This week's G-File

-Wednesday's "news"letter

-Suicide of the West (now out in paperback!)

-The non-scandal of Tina Fey and Jimmy Kimmel

-Steve Teles (Robert Saldin): Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites

-Patrick Deneen’s piece for American Compass

-Hofstadter’s book on social Darwinism

-Herbert Spencer and his infamous phrase

-“The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics.”

-Leonard’s “Origins of the myths of social Darwinism”

-The Pilgrim’s Progress

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“Jesus Christ and General Jackson” Jun 25, 2020

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Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, stops by to discuss his new book Countdown 1945, the state of American politics, and the intersection of technology and journalism.

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-Chris' new book Countdown 1945

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Kielbasa Konnection Jun 24, 2020

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Remnant regular and Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt joins to discuss the newsiest events of the day: sausage varietals, Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy, and 1800s newspapers. In addition to nerding out on these rather specific topics, they do get around to some more modern rank punditry on everything from early voting to the future of cable news.

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Radical Romantic Rebellions Jun 20, 2020

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Why are politicians so reluctant to take responsibility for the history of their own ideas? Everything from the minimum wage to community policing has a sordid past if you just look back far enough, and Jonah thinks that putting on your partisan blinders only for the specific policies you happen to dislike leads to bad outcomes. In this particularly chaotic era of American politics, Jonah points out evidence of this sort of thing happening everywhere.

Show Notes:

-The Problem With Claiming That Policing Evolved From Slave Patrols

-This week's G-File

-The Blue Eagle program

-The New Republic’s… interesting piece… on canceling conservative books

-The Bolton book, preorder before the DOJ gets to it

-An early Remnant with Matt Continetti, with talk about neoconservatism

-ScoutandZoes.com, promo code DINGO at checkout

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‘A’ for Apostate Jun 19, 2020

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In the microcosm of right-of-center news, we have been blessed with two great writers by the name of Robert George. This podcast sees Jonah talking to one of them. No, not that one, the other one! They talk about what it’s like to work for two of the most spirited publications in New York (the Post and the Daily News), and take a trip down memory lane to their time as pundits in the last dominant years of live TV.

Show Notes:

-Robert’s author page at New York Daily News

-The long history of Jonah and Julianne Malveaux’s swipes at each other (with a cameo by Robert)

-Robert on BLM’s echoes to the Tea Party

-R.I.P. Denny O’Neil

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'Some Birds Aren’t Meant to be Caged' Jun 17, 2020

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Escaping household chaos, a car-bound Jonah talks prisons with Brown University’s David Skarbek. Bolivian jails and Soviet gulags are just two choices in this long game of Where’d-You-Rather: Incarceration Edition. Skarbek takes us through the highlights of his upcoming book and touches on the delicate subject of policing.

Show Notes:

-Skarbeck’s upcoming book: The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

-Skarbek on EconTalk

-Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law, by Paul and Sarah Robinson

-Chained Heat

-Caged Heat (There’s more than one of these???)

-Jonah on the CHAZ

-Rule of clans

-German phrase for “Attaining freedom once you reach a city”

-Alex Tabarrok on street safety policy

-1982 “Broken Windows” essay

-Vin Cannato on The Remnant

-Andersonville prisoner of war camp

-Peter Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

-Emma Goldman, anarchist

-Elinor Ostrom, economist

-Gabi.com/remnant

-ExpressVPN.com/remnant for 3 months free with a year plan

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Busting Out the Heidegger Jun 13, 2020

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What to make of the many news stories of the week - the resignation of James Bennet at The New York Times, the establishment of an autarkic city-state in Seattle, and more? On the Ruminant, Jonah sees some connecting threads between them all, such as the shrinking of large, trustworthy media institutions.

Show Notes:

-This Friday’s G-File

-"Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr." collection, hosted for free by the Hoover Institution

-Robin Williams caricatures Buckley twice in "Aladdin"

-Jonah writing on the problem of liberal media bias and the “objectivity” issue

-“SAY IT! SAY IT!”

-Jonah’s column about Romney

-Ross Douthat’s op-ed about the Tom Cotton piece

-Monopsony

-Jonah and Hugh Hewitt’s disagreement about the Alt-Right from back in 2016

-Jonah: How the nationalists blew their chance

-The members-only Midweek G-File

-Ed Koch: “Now they must be punished.”

-The “stationary bandit”

-"Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law"

-The Hop Bird

-TommyJohn.com/remnant

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中間王國 Jun 11, 2020

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AEI scholar and China expert Oriana Skylar Mastro joins The Remnant to help us all understand the "Middle Kingdom" and its moves on the world stage. At a time like this, where the U.S. is retreating from its global responsibilities, how is China going to try to spin this into a positive outcome for themselves? Oriana has some ideas.

Show Notes:

-Oriana’s latest insights on China

-Oriana’s book, on the problems with peace talks

-Oriana's piece on Taiwan's future

-The sheer amount of effort that goes into Chinese censorship

-The controversial and confusing Russia/China joint air patrol

-The current state of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

-Weirdness on China’s border with India

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Sleepless in Sheboygan Jun 09, 2020

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Tim Carney joins The Remnant, where he talks about some of the great shoe-leather reporting he’s been doing on the protests in the D.C. area. How many of the protesters are seriously out to cause trouble, and how many are there for good reasons? Also, what can be made of the “defund the police” movement, and where have our “little platoons” gone during the pandemic?

Show Notes:

-Tim’s work at the Washington Examiner

-Tim’s latest book, Alienated America

-Subsidiarity

-Tim’s Occupy reporting

-Cyclist in Montgomery County gets falsely accused

-The Treason of Epidemiologists

-Justin Amash’s tweet about epidemiologists

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Reading the Subtext Aloud Jun 06, 2020

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Jonah returns for the weekend Ruminant to address the growing unease he gets from the national protest movements. What’s going to be more damaging: the protests, or the massive overcorrection from the critics of the protests? With a little bit of perspective, it should be easy to see that everyone is manipulating data for their own ends - the epidemiologists, the protesters, and, of course, the Executive (to put it politely).

Show Notes:

-This week's G-File

-Wednesday's "news"letter

-Epidemiologists shift from social distance to social justice

-The Remnant Twitter AI asking for audience suggestions

-Epidemiologists insisting that you can’t go to church

-The heartening history of American racial attitudes over time

-Part of Jonah's review of The Defining Moment

-The St. John’s Church photo op - already adorned with a Wikipedia page

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