Continuing our epic series of first-time Remnant guests, Jonah Goldberg sits down with the political economists Samuel Gregg to discuss Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, the social question, shiny shoe buckles, the East India Company, mercantilism, liberalism’s origins, Burke, and the new-right’s rejection of free markets.

Show Notes:
—Samuel Gregg’s Law and Liberty article on Adam Smith
—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West
—Jamelle Bouie’s attack on Suicide of the West
—Jonah’s response to Jamelle Bouie
—Daniel B. Klein - “‘Liberal’ as a Political Adjective (in English), 1769–1824”
—Quentin Skinner - Liberty before Liberalism
—Gregg’s NR article on Smith and Burke
—Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue
—“Why I am Not a Conservative” by F. A. Hayek

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Has Scotland Forgotten Adam Smith? | Interview: Samuel Gregg