The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Friend-of-The Remnant and notorious papist Tim Carney joins Jonah Goldberg to pontificate about midterm projections, party-affiliation soul searching, flipping the Senate, the moral majority, the law as an educator, having kids, housing availability, universal daycare, socialism, and the Cheesecake Factory.

Show Notes:

—Dispatch Student Sponsorship

—Tim Carney: Family Unfriendly

—Carney: Alienated America

—Carney: The Big Ripoff

—Napoleon III Remnant

—Nick Eberstadt on The Remnant

—Roger Berkowitz on The Remnant

—Thomas Chatterton Williams on The Remnant

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Just days away from election week (or, as Jonah Goldberg likes to call it, “Hell”), we at The Remnant thought it wise to explore some more eggheady topics. Tune in to hear Jonah ruminate on the Israeli elections, Carl Schmitt, friendship in politics, good and bad metaphors, comedy, Rationalia, charisma, J.D. Vance, and what Republicans have coming.

Show Notes:

—Dispatch Student Sponsorship

—Friday’s DisPod

—Jonah on Left, Right & Center

—Jonah on Today, Explained

—John Puri in National Review: “A List of Things Democrats Might Do If They Retake Power”

—Roger Berkowitz’s last appearance on The Remnant

—Talking Hannah Arendt on The Remnant

—Jonah’s underrated second book

—William James: “Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War”

—Wednesday’s G-File

—Ruminating on Richard Nixon

—G-File on Nixon

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Jonah Goldberg convenes with Thomas Chatterton Williams to dissect and diagnose the problems plaguing America’s oldest ally, France. Tune in as Thomas and Jonah discuss French discontent, Emmanuel Macron, capitalism, state spending, Palestine, rioting, the protests of ‘68, organized envy, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, mass deportation, radical Islam, the Red-Green alliance, and the end of the Fifth Republic.

Show Notes:

—Thomas Chatterton Williams’ last Remnant appearance

—Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

—Tyler Austin Harper Remnant

—Lola-Fleur Whittaker video

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We here at The Remnant tend to evaluate statesmen according to the Lincoln-Wilson spectrum: The good ones are more like Abraham Lincoln, and the bad ones are more like Woodrow Wilson. But because Jonah Goldberg loves a good argument, we’ve invited friend-of-the-show Professor Steven Smith of Yale University to throw a few wrenches in our statesmanship formula. Listen in as Steven and Jonah discuss the difference between statesmanship and leadership, national education, stateless statesmen, crisis, noble ambition, Charles de Gaulle, Claremonsters, illiberalism, the boringness of leftist ideology, and demagoguery.

Show Notes:

—Steven Smith: On Statesmanship

—Previous Smith Remnant

—Laura Field: Furious Minds

—Laura Field Remnant

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Let’s be honest: If you’re not getting canceled every couple of days, are you even living? We don’t think so. We’re T minus 10 days until the midterms, and Jonah Goldberg is raring to kick grass and take names on some of the discourse’s most cantankerous issues. Listen in as he tackles the podcastsphere, his preferred midterm losers, Abdul El-Sayed and Islamophobia, Vivek Ramaswamy and the Amy Acton ad, Trump’s egoism, The Social Reckoning, Trump’s fruity comments, the Christian right, gay MAGA, and religious hypocrisy.

Show Notes:

—EconTalk Podcast

—Napoleon III Remnant

—Friday’s DisPod

—Jonathan Martin in Politico: “Vivek Ramaswamy’s Trump Act Could Be His Undoing”

—Vanity Fair: “The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers”

—Wednesday G-File

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It may disappoint frequent Remnant listeners to learn that most episodes are not recorded in a speakeasy. In fact, recording a Remnant is one of the few occasions that can draw Jonah Goldberg away from such establishments. Nonetheless, listeners will be pleased that on this occasion Jonah is joined in a speakeasy by none other than economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin. They talk about GDP, inflation, federal stakes in private companies, Friedrich Hayek, the knowledge problem, Social Security, the federal budget, K-12 education, one-party governance, political transparency, business leadership, The Wealth of Nations, and the microcosm/macrocosm distinction.

Show Notes:

—Marco Rubio in the Washington Post: “Why I believe in industrial policy — done right”

—Douglas Holtz-Eakin’s homepage

—The Argument

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Conventional wisdom will tell you to be well rested and sober before an interview to ensure peak performance. Jonah Goldberg, however, discovered long ago that he’s at his best on three minutes of sleep, a couple shots of Fireball, and a fistful of Alka-Seltzer tablets. Today, Jonah has prepared himself accordingly because he wants to be in shipshape for The Remnant’s favorite soft Marxist, Tyler Austin Harper. Join Jonah and Tyler as they dive deep into unfettered capitalism, underwater basket weaving, spoiled DSA kids, socialism, New Deal liberalism, the working class, Democratic Party capture, new ideas, civil society, hobby inflation, administrative bloat, and the technocratization of the humanities.

Show Notes:

—Austin Harper in The Atlantic - “Why Do Rich Kids Love Socialism?”

—Jonah’s response G-File

—Daniel Bell - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

—Tyler Austin Harper’s April Remnant appearance

—Bhaskar Sunkara, Ben Burgis, and Mike Beggs - The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World

—Joseph A. Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Dear listener: There are few places Jonah Goldberg hates more than O’Hare International Airport. Yet, in a sad irony, he has spent a significant percentage of his life sitting in a Chicago terminal waiting on a plane. Though Jonah is not generally inclined to process his life through song, today’s Ruminant kicks off with a slow, mournful dirge memorializing his travel nightmares. But fret not; Jonah quickly recovers himself and holds forth admirably on all manner of subjects, including the Vladimir Putin diesel deal, Ukraine and the West, Cornell, Ilhan Omar, politicians and the media, silos, James Talarico, NatCons, J.D. Vance, Katie Zacharia, bad socialist policy, and governing like a grown-up.

Show Notes:

—Friday’s DisPod

—G-File: “High-Minded Words for a Low Form of Politics”

—Andy McCarthy in National Review: “What to Make of the Trump DOJ’s Investigation of Ilhan Omar”

—Wednesday’s G-File

—Jonah’s LA Times column

—Jesse Singal in The Dispatch: “Fractured Realities”

—Dissent Magazine: “Know Your Enemy: The Post-MAGA Midterms?”

—Last week’s Ruminant

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Old men griping about the new generation is an old, venerable tradition, and Jonah Goldberg can grouse with the best of them. Unlike the other old men, however, Jonah gets to talk to one of the few people who can actually answer the question, “What’s wrong with the kids these days?” and back it up with data. The American Enterprise Institute’s Daniel Cox joins The Remnant to take us on a whirlwind tour of the gender divide, cultural expectations, parenting, LinkedIn, generational change, attention infidelity, TV, dating, sexting, teenagehood, social media, surveillance culture, porn, OnlyFans, incels, the manosphere, social malaise, third places, chivalry, class, and preaching what you practice.

Show Notes:

—Generation Uncoupled: America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection

—GQ - “The Laptop Boyfriends Can’t Stop Watching YouTube in Bed”

—Rob Henderson Remnant

—Jonah’s G-File: “I Think We’re Turning Japanese … I Really Think So”

—Wired - “I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty”

—Jonah’s most recent book, Suicide of the West

—Sarah Isgur’s dating Remnant

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While The Remnant has played host to many remarkable historians over the years, few have taken us on a more incredible ride than Simon Sebag Montefiore. As such, we’re proud to bestow on Simon our newly formed, not-really-endowed chair of Middle Eastern history. Tune in to hear Simon and Jonah Goldberg rove across time and space, covering Iran, Saudi Arabia, the 1979 revolution, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Israel, antisemitism, moral hysteria, Western obsession with Jerusalem, colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, modernization, Islam, historical perspective, and, most importantly of all, the proper pronunciation of Turkey.

Show Notes:

—Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

—Jerusalem: The Biography

—Jonah’s last book, Suicide of the West

—James Scott - Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

—Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American’s Guide to Europe

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Happy Saddam Saturday! Just kidding, we don’t do that kinda thing around here. But you know who does? That’s right, Jack Posobiec and his fellow alt-right goons. And while today’s Ruminant features more than enough of such nonsense, Jonah Goldberg doesn’t leave the high-minded among you hanging. Tune in to hear about nationalism, the Middle East, the French Revolution, Yoram Hazony’s Israeli NatCon, socialism, J.D. Vance, Trump’s short hand, the death penalty, abortion, slavery, and Hegseth’s firing-squad spectacle.

Show Notes:

—Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

—Jonah’s America 250 essay for The Dispatch

—Jonah’s book, Liberal Fascism

—Jonah’s book, Suicide of the West

—John Podhoretz on Yoram Hazony’s scheme

—Jonah’s death-penalty column

—Hannah Arendt Remnant

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Notorious misanthrope Jonah Goldberg is skeptical of the power of friendship in politics. Winning him over will be no easy task, but if anyone is up to the job, it’s friend of the Remnant and Hannah Arendt scholar Roger Berkowitz. Listen in as Roger and Jonah duke it out over friends, enemies, Zionism, the Nazis, fear of the people, facts, truth in politics, Alexis de Tocqueville, Madisonianism, local governance, the distribution of power, and much more.

Show Notes:

—A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World

—Who was Hannah Arendt Remnant

—Jonah’s last book, Suicide of the West

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While AEI is filled with a lot of smart nerds, a select few have earned the Jonah Goldberg title of “great sage.” Nick Eberstadt is one of these sages, and he joins today for a banger of a Remnant on poverty, misery, social science, the economics of the family, Hungary’s pro-natal policy, the fertility crash, phones, generational stereotypes, technological adaptation, the entitlement problem, and North Korea. Put down the Tik Tok and listen up, kids.

Show Notes:

—Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution

—Men Without Work

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On today’s Ruminant Jonah makes his old man proud by holding forth on the new right’s attempted rehabilitation of Richard Nixon. Along the way, he also hits on dog movies, the problems of polling, the midterms, the red undertow, the death penalty, Sen. Eric Schmitt, and the uncertain future of the GOP.

Show Notes:

—Heart of the Beast trailer

—Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog Trailer trailer

—Roger Berkowitz: A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World

—Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column

—Jonah on Left, Right, and Center

—Kevin Williamson’s death penalty piece

—Friday’s DisPod

—Jonah’s Wednesday G-File

—Kendall: “The Two Majorities”

—Dan McLaughlin in National Review: “Nixon’s Not the One”

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Dear listeners: For years, you’ve been asking us to get Bill Nye the Science Guy on The Remnant, and we have heard you. Today, we are pleased to present … Wait, what? Oh, I see. Apologies, listeners, but we appear to have had a bit of a mix-up. I’m sorry to say that Bill Nye wasn’t available, and instead the booking agency has sent *checks notes* Tony Mills! While Tony is sadly unwilling to drop Mentos into a 2-liter bottle of soda and stand over it with his mouth open (yes, we did ask), he is absolutely willing to bring the heat on science, AI, and the doom of humanity. Listen in to hear Tony and Jonah Goldberg discuss science funding, the politicization of research, COVID-19, historical reactions to pandemics, germ theory, gatekeeping, algorithms, romanticism, and (P)doom.

Show Notes:

—Remnant wherein Jonah made erroneous comments about pandemics

—The American Enterprise Institute’s AI Ethics Council

—Jonah’s last book

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This October will mark three years since Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza, igniting a complicated web of wars and regional conflicts across the Middle East. Jonah Goldberg is joined today by the authors of a new book that takes readers inside the minds of Israel’s decision-makers during these struggles, unveiling the complicated dynamics behind some of Israel’s biggest successes and failures. Join Jonah, Elliot Kaufman, and Yonah Jeremy Bob and they discuss Bibi Netanyahu, Iran, October 7, the beeper operation, the Biden White House, international opinion of Israel, Operation Midnight Hammer, Rafa, Hamas, Hezbollah, the 2015 nuclear deal, Students for Justice in Palestine, and why people get so deranged about Israel.

Show Notes:

—In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel's Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis

—School of War Podcast: “Why John Boyd Still Matters”

—Benjamin Netanyahu: Bibi: My Story

—Jonah’s LA Times column

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You remember the scene: Robert Deniro’s wife screaming at him in their apartment for being a jerk about the steak and flipping the kitchen table; Joe Pesci trying to calm them down; the neighbor calling them a bunch of animals; Deniro threatening to eat the neighbor’s dog. It’s exactly what you expect from director Martin Scorsese. But you know what it’s not? It’s not what Jonah Goldberg expected to find himself in the middle of after walking in the door the day the Stephanie Slade Remnant aired. What’s that? You want more context? Well then you’re just going to have to tune in to this rager of a Ruminant, wherein Jonah not only recounts his domestic dust-up over drag queen story hour but dives deep into Trump Derangement Syndrome, Xi Jinping at the White House, the autopen incident, Nikole Hannah-Jones, progressives, teachers unions, Nick Kristof and the rape dogs, Macklemore and Israel, Jonah going woke, rationalism vs reason, family, fusionism, the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar, and how we’re all both conservatives and liberals.

Show Notes:

—The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11

—Jonah’s review of The Enemy at Home

—Wednesday G-File

—Nikole Hannah-Jones article

—Jonah’s book, Suicide of the West

—Jonah’s book Liberal Fascism

—Thomas C. Leonard: Illiberal Reformers

—Jonah’s LA Times column

—Slade Remnant

—Friday’s DisPod

—School of War podcast: “Why John Boyd Still Matters”

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What can and can’t the government do? Can it ban softball on Sundays? Or perhaps prohibit little old ladies from having Bible study at the local library? What about drag queen story hour? Can it—horror of horrors—tell you that you have to mow your lawn? Joining The Remnant to help us sort through these thorny political thickets is Stephanie Slade, author of a popular new book about fusionism. Listen in as Stephanie and Jonah Goldberg cover the dissident right, Frank Meyer, Brent Bozell, liberalism, libertarianism, virtue, and everything in between.

Show Notes:

—Stephanie Slade - Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right

—Reason magazine

—Dan Flynn’s Frank Myer biography

—Fusionism excerpt in The Dispatch

—Slade on David Bahnsen’s podcast

—Jacob Levy - Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom

—Helena Rosenblatt - The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century

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As faithful Remnant listeners know, we try to avoid having politicians on the show. It just gets kinda awkward when you have to publicly rake them over the coals for eating mac and cheese on camera. But being good Burkeans, we know that all rules have their exceptions. Gov. Spencer Cox is one of those exceptions. He joins Jonah Goldberg on the show to talk about his new book, Off Ramp. Along the way, they cover political division, technology, Mormonism, social media, local politics, the 10th Amendment, executive power, contempt, cancel culture, congressional reform, coalition building, governorships, and the greatness of Utah.

Show Notes:

—Cox: Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt

—Ben Sasse Remnant

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Gentle listeners, we know you’ve had a hard week, and we want to bring you a pick-me-up. Today’s episode has a little something for everyone: a riveting cult story, nudity, sports gambling, racist-bigot bashing, fanatic Texans, AI-pocalypse, an epic history of progressivism, and, most tantalizing of all, a detailed discussion of the myth of left and right. Tune in to hear Jonah Goldberg ruminate about being a grown-up, the long-forgotten BDX Cult, originalism, AI torts and liability, the social question, Bo French, bourgeois morals, Indian Americans, racism, the AP stylebook, and the left-right spectrum.

Show Notes:

—9/11 G-File

—Jonah’s “Canines of 9/11” piece in National Review

—AO pod wherein David French defends George Bush

—The Sweeney G-File

—Jonah yapping about AI

—Jonah’s first book, Liberal Fascism

—Tim Carney: The Big Ripoff

—DisPod on AI

—Erick Erickson’s newsletter

—NR editorial on Indian bigotry

—Lewis brothers: The Myth of Left and Right

—Jonah dunks on Macklemore

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