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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
Hosted by The Dispatch · EN
In “The Remnant," Jonah Goldberg enlists a “Cannonball Run”-style cast of stars, has-beens, and never-weres to address the most pressing issues of the day. Is America doomed? Has liberalism failed? And will mankind ever invent something better than ‘90s-era “Simpsons?” Mixing political history, pop culture, rank punditry, and shameless book-plugging, Goldberg and guests will have the kinds of conversations we wish they featured on TV. And the nudity will (almost) always be tasteful. Brace your bingo cards.
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What Is Europe? | Interview: Roderick Beaton
3d ago01:06:33Tap to summarizeThe Remnant’s collection of chivalrous gentlemen has been expanded with the addition of Sir Roderick Beaton, renowned scholar of Greek history, language, and literature. And while Jonah Goldberg’s love of Greece goes all the way back to his infatuation with Helena Paparizou, today Beaton is here to talk about something slightly grander: Europe. Follow Jonah and Roderick as they dive into this age-old topic, covering history, geography, Christendom, Russia, ancient Greece, race, Brexit, and micro-nationalism. Show Notes: —Roderick Beaton—Europe: A New History —Georgios Varouxakis—The West: The History of an Idea —Robert Tombs—This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Year of the Jew | Ruminant
5d ago00:21:25Tap to summarizeJonah Goldberg indulges in a little Democrat-bashing after “Doctor” Jill Biden’s interview with CBS before picking fights on the right among the various criticisms of the Iran War. Then, a little divulging into Jewish identity, leviathans, and postliberalism history. Show Notes: —Why Postliberalism Failed | Interview: James M. Patterson and Thomas D. Howes —Liberalism’s Sibling Rivalry | Interview: Michael R.J. Bonner —Can Humanity Be Protected from Artificial Intelligence? —Pigeons and Pickle Jars —Douglas Murray on School of War podcast —Joseph Epstein on Dr. Jill Biden How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Why Postliberalism Failed | Interview: James M. Patterson and Thomas D. Howes
1w ago01:14:38Tap to summarizeJonah Goldberg is infamous for muttering venomous curses against postliberalism at odd moments, such as while flossing or playing backgammon with Steve Hayes. Recognizing that to the layman this might seem rabid or antisocial, Jonah has invited two authors of a recent book on postliberalism to give some background on this puzzling phenomenon. The trio discusses postliberalism vs. anti-liberalism, integralism, Adrian Vermeule, elite capture, national conservatism, Viktor Orbán, ISI, the Heritage Foundation, subsidiarity, the wish to political violence, postliberalism's institutional future, ground-level antisemitism, right-wing Hegelianism, and Peter Thiel. Show Notes: —Why Postliberalism Failed —Jonah on the Reagan Caucus Action —Vermeule in The Atlantic: “Beyond Originalism” —Vermeule: “Ralliement: Two Distinctions” —Vermeule: “‘It Can’t Happen’; Or, the Poverty of Political Imagination —Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Failed —Vermeule’s review of Why Liberalism Failed —Integralism book —The Atlantic: “The MAGA Intellectual Who Prophesied a Queen Melania” —Patrick Deneen: Regime Change —Michael Bonner Remnant The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Liberalism’s Sibling Rivalry | Interview: Michael R.J. Bonner
1w ago01:07:31Tap to summarizeFor nearly three decades, Jonah Goldberg has rightly abused Canada for its many crimes: its adoption of the metric system, slanderous contentions about bacon, and dubious claim to Machias Seal Island, to name a few. Recent events have put Jonah in a more conciliatory mood, however, and he has resolved to bring more of our northern neighbors on the show. Today’s token Canadian, Michael R.J. Bonner, joins The Remnant to talk about his recent book on liberalism. Michael and Jonah run the gamut, talking about Steven Pinkerism, liberalism’s virgin birth, Cold War liberalism, the Rawlsian turn, postliberal criticisms, subsidiarity, modern progressivism, John Stuart Mill, the religion of humanity, left-wing violence, third worldism, Justin Trudeau's lack of self-understanding, and the war in Iran. Show Notes: —Michael R.J. Bonner - The Crisis of Liberalism: The Origin and Destiny of Freedom —Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress —Samuel Moyn - Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times —President Obama Delivers His Second Inaugural Address —Noah Rothman Remnant —Noah Rothman’s book —National Affairs: “Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory” Buy your tickets here to see a live taping of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg and Sarah Isgur. How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Is Every Snowflake Unique? Actually? | Ruminant
2w ago00:23:48Tap to summarizeWith the wife out of the house and the hounds egging him on, Jonah Goldberg is hyped up on 5-Hour Energy and ready to talk for four hours straight about 1930s isolationism. However, understanding that some of our dear listeners lack the constitution for such a strenuous journey, our talented sound editors have reduced Jonah’s rumination to a more digestible size. Join Jonah as he skips through America the Sandwich, Trump’s slush fund, impeachment, the control-f presidency, whataboutism, John T. Flynn, antisemitism, Charles Lindbergh, the women’s history museum, channel surfing, The Walking Dead, the broken windows theory, and the decline of late-night television. Show Notes: —Sandwiches in Baltimore —Friday’s Dispatch Podcast —AO’s first episode on the slush fund —AO’s second episode on the slush fund —Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column —Jonah’s eulogy for his brother —Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism —Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism —Jonah’s Flynn G-File —The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America —Helen Lewis Remnant —Jonah’s underrated second book —Tyler Austin Harper Remnant Buy your tickets here to see a live taping of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg and Sarah Isgur. How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Monkey Business | Interview: Jonathan Leaf
2w ago01:12:44Tap to summarizeFor years, Jonah Goldberg’s enemies, acquaintances, and wife have accused him of being little more than a slightly advanced proboscis monkey. Today’s guest, author Jonathan Leaf, is here to prove them definitively wrong. Jonah and Jonathan explore how similar humans and apes actually are, while also touching on warlike animals, humans and the herd, chimp violence, the Jets, polygamy, language, hardwiring, Jane Goodall, and preferential homosexuality along the way. Show Notes: —Jonathan Leaf - The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature —James C. Scott - Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States —Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined —Robert Wright: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology —Atlantic piece - “The YOLO Presidency” —James Q. Wilson - The Moral Sense —City Journal review of The Primate Myth —L&L Review —Ed West’s Substack review —Washington Free Beacon review —Religion and Liberty Online review Buy your tickets here to see a live taping of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg and Sarah Isgur. How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Masculinism and Feminism | Interview: Helen Lewis
2w ago01:22:32Tap to summarizeJonah Goldberg is infamous for throwing around his feminist credentials, but today he comes face-to-face with the real deal. Helen Lewis joins the show to put an end Jonah’s performative feminism and to talk about the feminization thesis, Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens, right-wing women, based rituals, shibboleths, feminist rhetoric, weird Oregon cheese, protests as carnival, Handmaid’s Tale cosplay, abortion, institutional drift, male/female differences, and parenthood. Show Notes: —Helen in The Atlantic “The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet” —Atlantic piece about gambling —The Wilson/Hitchens book for which Jonah wrote the forward —Helen’s book: Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism —Triggernometry Pod - Adam Carolla Unfiltered on Immigration, Activism and Women —Richard Hanania: ”The Based Ritual” —Helen’s disposed European royals article —Helen Andrews: “The Great Feminization” —Hannah Rosin: The End of Men —Helen interviews Jordan Peterson —Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing —The War Against Boys —Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel Buy your tickets here to see a live taping of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg and Sarah Isgur. How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Bad Fish on the Dashboard | Ruminant
3w ago00:21:13Tap to summarizeComing at you from his new digs in the AEI annex (which is where they hide the bodies), Jonah Goldberg is Twitter-brained and ready to ruminate. After kicking off with some recent SCOTUS decisions and whacky historical facts, Jonah jumps into the Nick Kristof New York Times story, moral equivalence arguments, Iran, Trumpometry, impeachment, presidential misconduct, corruption, Venezuela as the 51st state, and The Great Canadian Annexation. Show Notes: —NPR interview —This week’s LA Times column —Friday’s Dispod —Nick Kristof NYT piece —Commentary Podcast on the Kristof piece —Ask Haviv Anything on the Kristof piece —WSJ on Kristof piece —Wars of Choice Commentary Pod —Noah Rothman Remnant —Jonah and Charlie Cooke on annexing Canada Buy your tickets here to see a live taping of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg and Sarah Isgur. How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Radical Chic | Interview: Noah Rothman
3w ago01:31:13Tap to summarizeAfter beating Noah Rothman senseless with a stick for months in abstentia, Jonah Goldberg has finally agreed to a fair, gentlemanly cage fight here at Remnant MMA. After talking about Noah’s new book on left-wing violence (which also discusses right-wing violence), Jonah and Noah work through their disagreements on the war in Iran. Show Notes:—Noah’s book: Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America—Noah’s previous book: The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun—Commentary: “A Clockwork Blue: How the Left Has Come to Excuse Away and Embrace Political Violence”—Commentary: “The Worst Study Ever?” Buy your tickets here to see a live taping of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg and Sarah Isgur. How to access your members-only Remnant feed. The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Old and New Rights | Interview: George Hawley
3w ago01:15:44Tap to summarizeJonah Goldberg, weary of the grind, needs some R&R. Not being much of a beach man and finding ping pong boring, he turns to the one activity which puts the pep back in his step and color in his cheeks: day drinking. Wait … checks notes … rather, Jonah turns to his other favorite recreation: talking about conservatism. Today Jonah’s partner in crime is political scientist and notorious conservatism nerd George Hawley. Join this dynamic duo as they dive into the meaning of “right” and “left,” the many new rights, populist tension, the cult of unity, the progressive era, socialism, identity politics on the right, ethnic politics, antisemitism, Russell Kirk, the horseshoe theory, me-too Republicans, and conservatism as ideology and its origins. Show Notes:—George Hawley in The Dispatch: “The Enduring Lessons of Fusionism”—Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism—Samuel Huntington: “Conservatism as an Ideology”—David Schoenbaum: Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939—Jonah’s first book: Liberal Fascism—Hawley: Conservatism in a Divided America: The Right and Identity Politics—Charlie Cooke Remnant—George Nash: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945—Matthew Continetti: The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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