The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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 The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

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 The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

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. The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

The Remnant has proudly hosted guests of many titles: 5th Viscount Ridley, Sen. Ben Sasse, and even Dispatch CEO Steve Hayes have graced our proverbial stage. Yet, as longtime listeners have likely noted, we've never had a judge on the show. That changes today! Join Jonah Goldberg as he sits down with Judge Roy K. Altman to talk about the credibility of the genocide, apartheid, and colonialism allegations commonly levied against the state of Israel.Show Notes:—Roy Altman: Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law—Walter Russell Mead on The Remnant—War on the Rocks: “Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility”The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

It's here! Though scurrilous critics have long slandered Sarah Isgur as a one-trick pony and partisan hack, her friend Jonah Goldberg has stood with her through thick and thin. Now, with the publication of Sarah's new book, Last Branch Standing, Jonah's unflagging faithfulness has been vindicated. Join Jonah and Sarah as they discuss the great judicial issues of our day, including the anatomy riots, textualism vs. originalism, Sarah's novel breakdown of the court, Buckley particles, big-case criteria, Clarence Thomas, Tom Brady's underwear, the unbearable lightness of precedent, and fun facts about every justice.Show Notes:—Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court—Advisory Opinions Podcast—Lindsay Chervinsky Remnant—Remnant about Max Weber—Tom Brady on SNL—Most recent AO episodeThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Coming at you from the forests of Maine, Jonah kicks off the day's ruminations with reflections on his father and his legacy, before turning to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the importance of rhetoric, Vice President J.D. Vance's visit to Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's appeal to postliberals, groypers, victimhood culture, Iran, the ceasefire, Russia, antisemitic “realism,” and President Donald Trump's rating as a war time leader.Plus, order Sarah Isgur's book here.Show Notes:—Last weeks Ruminant—Last Friday's G-File—Jonah's underrated second book—Wednesday's G-File—Jonah's book: Liberal Fascism —John Patrick Diggins: Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America—Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression—New Yorker: “How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics”—Rebeccah Heinrichs at National Review: “John Mearsheimer Has a Problem with Reality”—The Economist: “On the front lines, Russian soldiers pay officers to stay alive”—Thursday's Commentary Podcast—Nick Catoggio in The Dispatch: “Schrödinger's Ceasefire”—The Editor's PodcastThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

In a blast from the past, Jonah sits down with his former job foreman and slumlord, Arthur Brooks, to discuss finding meaning in a complicated and empty world. Arthur and Jonah talk about the difficult conditions of modernity, phone discipline, living like your grandparents, identity portfolios, religion, love, friendship, starting The Dispatch, and Arthur's six steps for finding life's meaning.Show Notes:—Arthur Brooks: The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness—Charles Murray: Taking Religion Seriously—Charles Murray on The Remnant—Malcolm Muggeridge: Something Beautiful for God: The Classic Work on a Skeptic's Conversion Through Mother Teresa's Exemplary Influence—Helen Andrews: “The Great Feminization”The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

When Theodore Roosevelt needed a work break, he invited champion martial artists to the White House to spar. When Jonah Goldberg gets tired of the grind, he calls up National Review movie critic Ross Douthat for some good ol' fashioned intellectual judo. Jonah and Ross get stuck in on Iran, working through the political current state of play, the changing use of the term “regime,” the justifications for the war, and whether Trump betrayed MAGA. They conclude with a brief recap of their disagreement in writing over the future of conservatism. Show Notes:—Ken Pollack Remnant—Mark Dubowitz on Ross' little show, Interesting Times—Chris Caldwell in The Spectator: “The end of Trumpism”—Nick Catoggio in The Dispatch: “The Obvious Scapegoat”—Douthat in the NYT: “The Iran War Is Trump's War”—Ross' piece on the future of conservatism—Jonah's response to Ross on the future of conservatism The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

After a week of maniacally running The Dispatch in Steve's absence—firing employees at will, publishing screeds against pickled herring, etc.—Jonah Goldberg takes up his usual post to ruminate about Pam Bondi, Trump's speech on the Iran war, his old grievances on Cuba and the Times, the recent Meta case, receipts on John Rawls from last week's Ruminant, Hannah Arendt on truth in politics, Plato and the divine, and the future of the podcast. Plus, stick around for Jonah's spicy take on birthright citizenship. Show Notes:—“Trump Says ‘I Love' People Who Are ‘Nice To Me' – ‘Even if They're Bad People' ”—Fireside Chat with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche at CPAC 2026 - 03/26/26—Ross Douthat: “Trump's Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era”—Jonah's G-File response to Douthat's article—Elliott Abrams in National Review: “The President's Not-So-Reassuring Iran Address”— Robert Timberg: The Nightingale's Song—Tuesday's Dispatch Podcast on Cuba—Friday's Dispatch Podcast—Last week's Ruminant on John Rawls—Hannah Arendt Remnant—Robby George Remnant—Harvey Mansfield Remnant—Advisory Opinions Pod: Birthright Citizenship Oral Arguments—Mediaite: “Hasan Piker Is the Left's Candace Owens. The Press Treats Him Like a Rock Star” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Who was Hannah Arendt? What did she believe about truth and politics? Was she wrong about the American Revolution? Today on The Remnant, Jonah Goldberg and Roger Berkowitz dive into these questions and more, discussing what intellectual category Arendt falls in, her understanding of truth, the question of human nature, Arendt's relationship with Martin Heidegger, the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, Adolf Eichmann, the meaning of the banality of evil, Arendt's view of the American Revolution, and whether or not she was a small-“L” liberal. Show Notes:—Berkowitz's website—Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism—Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil—Harvey Mansfield Remnant—Arendt: The Human Condition—Jonah's book, Suicide of the West—Arendt: “The Crisis of Education”—Arendt: “On Revolution”—Berkowitz: “Was Arendt Wrong?” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

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 The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

oin cornhole champion Jonah Goldberg as he asks the most important questions of our time, including: What does media bias have to do with the quadruple-amputee murderer? Did Jonah Goldberg write a 2011 book on Canadian prime ministers? Just what was so arrogant about John Rawls' liberalism? Show Notes:—GLoP Culture Podcast—Friday's Dispatch Podcast—Jonah's LA Times column—Chris Caldwell: “The End of Trumpism”—Jonah's G-File on what Trumpism looks like—Carl Trueman Remnant—Harvey Mansfield Remnant—Jonah's review of Nine Days in The Dispatch—John Rawls: A Theory of Justice—Jonah's book: Suicide of the West—Jonah on Andrew Sullivan's podcast—Jonah's Wednesday G-File—Rep. Swalwell stuttering over privatizing TSA The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Today The Remnant welcomes Harvey Mansfield, longtime Harvard professor and philosophical paragon. Though thoroughly intimidated, Jonah Goldberg plucks up his courage and dives into a brilliantly winding conversation about effectual truth, rationalism, virtues in the modern academy, Straussianism, Christianity's inheritance from the ancients, law and the state, autonomy, American pragmatism, Marx, postliberalism, John Rawls, Locke's labor theory of value, and the future of America. Show Notes:—Mansfield: The Rise and Fall of Rational Control—National Affairs article on envy—Remnant: Straussian Summer School The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

In a stunning debut performance, new friend of The Remnant Carl Trueman joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss America's renewed interest in religion, society's need for God, the moral questions of technology, the Butlerian Jihad, transhumanism, Nietzsche, antisemitism, sources of meaning, eugenics, and the desecration of man.Show Notes:—Trueman's book: The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity—Trueman on TRIGGERnometry—Charles Murray on The Remnant—Tom Holland's book: Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World—Trueman on The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan—Sam Altman's descent into insanity—Friedrich Nietzsche's book: The Gay Science—Russ Roberts's book: Wild Problems—Jonah's book: Suicide of the WestThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Coming at you from Baton Rouge, Jonah Goldberg is ornery and looking to settle some scores. After covering his bases on Iran, the ethics of criticizing the war, and the metrics of success, he moves on to lazy media criticism, ethnic humor, goyslop, and James Fishback. Finally, in a Pulitzer-worthy climax, Jonah definitively dismantles the legacy of Paul Ehrlich and annihilates Steve Hayes' obsession with the word “junto.” Show Notes:—Wednesday G-File: “An Anti-Manifesto on the Iran War”—The Intelligence from Economist Podcasts+—Eli Lake and Andrew Sullivan Debate the Iran War—Last week's Ruminant—Charles Hilu: “Florida's College Republicans and Their Love Affair With James Fishback”—The American Conservative: “Is James Fishback the William F. Buckley of Florida?”—Jonah: “The Lasting Damage of Paul Ehrlich's Pessimism”—Ben Wattenberg: “The Nonsense Explosion”—Kevin Williamson in The Dispatch on Paul Ehrlich—Jonah's book: Suicide of the West—The New York Times' absurd obituary of Paul Ehrlich—Jonah on The Overton Window The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Not since the Marquis de Lafayette's triumphant 1824 tour of the United States has a return been more welcome than Yuval Levin's to The Remnant. After greeting our patriot hero with laurels and kisses, Jonah Goldberg sets Yuval up for a philosophical tour de force, covering the president's war powers, cultural and institutional change, education in republicanism, the effects of new technology on our Constitutional order, the Scottish Enlightenment, rationalism vs. reason, Hayek vs. Burke, and the new right in the post-Trump world. Show Notes:—Yuval's book, American Covenant—AEI's First Branch Society—Allen Guelzo on The Remnant—Register for LSU's 2026 John Breaux Symposium The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Few men have earned their return ticket to The Remnant with more grace and power than economist, polymath, and notorious Kuyperian David Bahnsen. David and Jonah cover the two Trump economies, the strategic significance of oil, institutional damage on the right, the fight for the term “conservative,” Christian Zionism, Megyn Kelly and the groypers, and the economics of Fred Hirsch. Show Notes:—Jonah's book: Liberal Fascism—Russell Moore on The Remnant— Brian Mattson in The Dispatch: “Is ‘Christian Zionism' Really Heretical?”—The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People—Jonah's book: Suicide of the West—Allen Guelzo on The Remnant The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

To outside observers, it may appear that Jonah Goldberg is living easy and keeping beach time. Be not deceived! Jonah is as full of intellectual vim as ever, jumping straight into energy markets and the strait of Hormuz, the risks of Trump bailing on the war in Iran, “Jewish” synagogues, the excesses of Epstein demagoguery, the stupidity of idealized class conflict, and—finally—an epic defense of Edmund Burke against his romantiphobic detractors. Show Notes:—Jonah's visit to an oil rig—WSJ: “Will Trump ‘Fight to Win' in Iran?”—Washington Post: “How Ro Khanna turned a sex trafficking scandal into a campaign stunt”—Wednesday's G-File—“Do Democrats Want to Be 'Normal'? Survey Analysis of Today's Democratic Coalition”—Allen Guelzo on The Remnant—Oakeshott: Rationalism in Politics and other essays—Jonah's underrated second book The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

In desperate need of a Remnant guest, Jonah Goldberg puts on his trucker hat, drives out to the sleaziest rural bar you can imagine, and dunks Chris Stirewalt's head into a horse trough. Listen to Jonah and Chris blow the smoke about irony, gallows humor, Iran, Trump's fashion failures, ties in restaurants, voter ID, the Ken Paxton-John Cornyn race in Texas, Bill Clinton flirting with Nancy Mace, the stolen 2020 election, and Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Show Notes:—Introduction to Ben Sasse's podcast, Not Dead Yet—Jedediah Purdy: For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today—Revisionist History: Rat vs. Raccoon—Jonah's G-File on Johnny Bravo The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Historian and friend of The Remnant Allen Guelzo has taken a breather from battling for the soul of the West to argue with Jonah Goldberg about the American founding, Edmund Burke, and—horror of horrors—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Join Jonah and Dr. Guelzo as they explore Western civilization, barbarism, tradition, Marxism as romanticism, the Enlightenment, Locke, Lincoln, the great-man theory of history, and the fundamental cause of the Civil War. Show Notes:—The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition Vol. 2—Previous Remnant with Allen Guelzo—John Courtney Murray: “The Return to Tribalism”—Georgios Varouxakis: The West: The History of an Idea—Secretary Marco Rubio delivers remarks to the Munich Security Conference—Jonah's book: Suicide of the West—Walter Russell Mead: “The Enduring Impact of the Abrahamic Tradition”—The Lost History of Liberalism—Kristol: “The American Revolution as Successful Revolution”—Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

After one heck of a week, Jonah Goldberg has a lot to unpack. Jonah visits the advantages of having Congress on board for war, the case for attacking Iran sooner rather than later, Marco Rubio's Israel gaffe, Pete Hegseth's chest thumping, Kristi Noem's entrance into the dust bin of history, Trump's corrupt “industrial policy,” the Anthropic/Pentagon dustup, and primary elections in the Lone Star State. Note: If you're in the Baton Rouge area, Jonah will be speaking at LSU on March 20 as part of the John Breaux Symposium. The Symposium is free and open to the public (with food provided!), but you need to register in advance. Show Notes:—George Orwell: “Politics and the English Language”—Wednesday's G-File—Jonah's LA Times column on regime change—Eli Lake on The Remnant—Marco Rubio Explains Why The US Launched An Attack On Iran—Philip Klein at National Review: “No, Marco Rubio Didn't Claim That Israel Dragged Trump into War with Iran” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

With bombs falling, missiles flying, and the Ayatollah six feet under, there's only one man Remnant listeners want on the show. Ken Pollack joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the feasibility of regime change from the air; the precedents of Kosovo, Operation Desert Fox, and Libya; Iranian social cohesion; the risk of Balkanization; the threat Turkey poses; President Donald Trump's fear of blowback; the administration's reason for attacking now; and what happens from here. Show Notes:—Previous Remnant with Ken—Jonah's Los Angeles Times column this week—Rubio's explanation of the war—Phil Klein at National Review - “No, Marco Rubio Didn't Claim that Israel Dragged Trump into War with Iran”—Remnant with Eli Lake—George Will on restored American credibility The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

With Captain Jonah Goldberg three sheets to the wind and capsized upon the Caribbean sands, inveterate scallywag Kevin Williamson has seized the helm of HMS Remnant and plotted a course for the far east. Kevin is joined in his journey by Andrew Collier, a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, wherein they discuss China's bizarre real-estate situation, Xi Jinping's economic mindset, Beijing's 2020 crackdown on its tech firms, and what it's like doing business in the People's Republic. Show Notes:—Andrew Collier's bio—China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants—Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Rum-brained and sunburned, Jonah Goldberg posts up poolside to ruminate on the Caribbean's cruise economy, Woodrow Wilson, how we think about history, Trump's condo-salesman vanity, the ongoing war in Ukraine, J.D. Vance as the “fraud czar,” and the journalistic ethics of Polymarket. Show Notes:—Wednesday's G-File—AO pod wherein David French acknowledges his intellectual debt to Jonah—Remnant - The Great Cancellation of Woodrow Wilson—Jonah's book Liberal Fascism— Dan McLaughlin - “The Hater's Guide to Woodrow Wilson”—Washington Post - “Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency”—Last week's Remnant—Dr. Oz - “Best State of the Union ever”—Ukraine: The Latest on the four-year anniversary of the war—Friday's Dispatch Podcast—In Living Color- Hey Mon The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

In need of some good ol' fashioned conservative inside baseball, Jonah Goldberg turns to the only man he can: Richard Reinsch. Jonah and Richard dive deep into GOP history, examining how the Nixon era serves as a prism through which we can view the MAGA moment, before debunking the recent “white-culture” phenomenon and arguing for a conservatism built on the Declaration of Independence's immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”Shownotes:—Reinsch in Commentary: “Against Grievance Politics”—Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute profile—Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary—Ross Douthat's arguments about the future of conservatism—Jonah's G-File response to Douthat—Jonah's G-File on white culture and right-wing identitarianism—Oren Cass in the New York Times—Kevin Williamson for The Dispatch: “The Not-So-Obvious Price of Trump's Trade Incoherence”—Kesler - Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness—Huntington - Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National IdentityThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

On today's episode, Jonah spoils himself by conversing with historian Sophia Rosenfeld about the history of choice, changes in the meaning of freedom, the significance of the mundane, and the American Revolution's impact on Europe. Shownotes:—The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life—Jerry Muller: The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought—Moscow On The Hudson Coffee Coffee Coffee—FDR: Second Bill of Rights—Milton Friedman: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement—Irving Kristol: “The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution”—Jonah: “The American Revolution was a Really Big Deal”—Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Jonah Goldberg, about to escape the icy north for some sun-soaked R&R, is feeling boisterous. After reveling in his new favorite art form—Donald Trump's “Truths” set to music—Jonah piles on Jesse Jackson, Iran, the Justice Department, Napoleon III, and Notre Dame, crescendoing with his critique of “white culture” and right-wing identity politics. Shownotes:—Jonah on CNN's The Arena talking smack about sleazy democrats—Financial Times—“Why Iran is betting on war”—Nick Catoggio's Boiling Frogs on Trump and Iran—Jonah on the Sam Harris podcast—The Remnant with Ken Pollack—The Remnant with Eli Lake—Jonah's book Liberal Fascism—Jonah's “white culture” G-File—Bo Winegard's defense of white culture—Jonah's takedown of Jamelle Bouie in National Review The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

The Remnant is proud to bestow its newly formed, not-really-endowed chair of lexicography upon Scrabble legend and word nerd Stefan Fatsis. For his first act as chair, Stefan joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the role of professional lexicographers, whether dictionaries should be normative or descriptive, how dictionaries handle controversial words, and the threat that the digital age poses not only to the dictionary, but to knowledge itself. Show Notes:—Unabridged The Thrill of and Threat to the Modern Dictionary—Stefan in Slate: “What Does 'Unabridged' Even Mean Anymore?”—John McWhorter's most recent Remnant appearance—Fatsis' book on competitive Scrabble—Mencken - The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

The sun comes up, a new day dawns, and Cass Sunstein publishes another book. Today he joins Jonah Goldberg on The Remnant to discuss the six separations of power that undergird our republic, along with unitary executive theory, democracy, and electoral mandates.Shownotes:—Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times—Yuval Levin's book: The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left—Jonah in National Review: “The Bluto-Burke Connection Revealed!”—Suicide of the WestThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Fresh off of arguing with Steve Hayes about the different places one can keep a ferret, Jonah Goldberg ruminates on cameras in Congress, choosing between party and principle, Apple News' First Amendment rights, Kristi Noem's blanket, the Hayekianism of Burke, Yoram Hazony's foolishness, and RFK Jr.'s crackpottery. Plus, you should preorder Sarah Isgur's book. Shownotes:—Friday's Dispatch Podcast—WSJ piece on Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and DHS—Cass Sunstein's book on separation of powers—Wednesday's G-File—The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left—Suicide of the West—Burke: “Birds of Prey” speech—Ruminant touching on Yoram Hazony—James Kirchick in Commentary - “The Chutzpah of Yoram Hazony”—Michael A. Woronoff in Commentary: “Trump the Corporatist” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Hyped up on cold medicine and battling delirium, Jonah Goldberg sets off with Elliott Abrams on a globe-trotting adventure in foreign policy covering Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, India, and more. Along the way they discuss the nature of President Donald Trump's foreign policy, the consequences of American unpredictability, Americans' conceptions of human rights abroad, the utility of the term “neoconservative,” and the lies the U.N. was founded on.Show Notes: —Elliott Abrams profile—"Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System”—Eli Lake on The Remnant—Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign PolicyThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Back by popular demand, the great jurist-philosopher and godfather of American conservatism Robby George has returned to The Remnant to set Jonah Goldberg straight about truth, natural law, and the common good. Jonah and Robby talk about the Western tradition, the age of feelings, different kinds of rights, the death penalty, new paganism, and Robby's desire to fight for the soul of conservatism. Shownotes:—Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment—George Varouxakis' The West: The History of an Idea—Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”—What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense—Jonah's first book—Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed—“The Flight 93 Election”—Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—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

The Ruminant is vindicated!!! After years of Steve Hayes and The Fair Jessica griping about Jonah's peculiar habit of ruminating alone in his basement, new stats have proved their skepticism decidedly misplaced. Tune in to learn all about it, along with Jonah's thoughts on the terms ‘progressive' and ‘fascist,' the Melania movie, Trump's state-capitalism, The Washington Post, and hypocrisy as a violation of the American creed. But first, some sad news… Shownotes:—Friday's Dispatch Pod—Megan McArdle - “There's a way to stop Trump. First, drop the fascism debate.”—Jonah's book Liberal Fascism—Jonah in The Free Press: “The January 6th Republicans”—Clinton In 2007: I Prefer Calling Myself “Progressive” To “Liberal”—Orwell - “Politics and the English Language”—NYT - “Small Businesses Wither Under Trump's Tariffs: ‘It's Hard to Breathe'”—AO Pod on nationalizing elections—Slate - “I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.”—Commentary Podcast on The Washington Post—Jonah's LA Times column—Alex Demas's Dispatch piece on Trump's corruption The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Every once and a while, The Remnant rewards a faithful listener by bringing him on the show. Well, assuming he's a national security expert. One such lucky listener is Eli Lake, who joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the Shah of Iran, the Ayatollah, the current state of play in Islamic Republic, President Trump, and B.S. levels in our politics. Shownotes:—Eli's piece: “Reza Pahlavi: Iran's Reluctant Prince”—Eli's Breaking History podcast—Remnant with Ken Pollack—Iranian Commander's Daughter SECRETLY Calls Radio: 'My Father Is A Monster!'—Part 1 of The Rest Is History podcast on Iran—Kermit Roosevelt's memoir—Ross Douthat's article on conservatism—Jonah's response to Ross' article The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Today on The Remnant, university-reform eggheads Ben and Jenna Storey join Neanderthal-in-remediation Jonah Goldberg to talk about civic education and recent efforts to rejuvenate American higher ed. Jonah and the Storeys cover university governance, the relationship between civics and the liberal arts, the significance of postliberalism, and the reasons for thinking seriously. Show Notes:—Center for the Future of the American University—Ben and Jenna Storey's book - Why We Are Restless—Robert Michels - Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy—AAUP's 1915 Declaration of Principles—Why Liberalism Failed—Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future—Remnant episode with Will Inboden on higher ed reform The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Jonah Goldberg, haggard and weary, returns from his cross-country blizzard travels grateful to sit once again in his misanthrope's podcasting den and record a Ruminant. Jonah unpacks his recent conversation with Pete Buttigieg, exposes the number of unfortunate careers launched by John Podhoretz, takes down Yoram Hazony and the NatCons, and analyzes the fallout from the Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis. Shownotes:—Remnant on Tucker Carlson—Remnant with Matt Franck—Steve Hayes in The Dispatch on Jason Zengerle's Tucker book—Dr. Yoram Hazony's speech at 2nd International Conference on Combating Antisemitism—Tablet: “Yoram Hazony's 15 Minutes”—Last Friday's G-File—The Editor's Podcast: The Greenland Stand Down—Michael Arthur Ledeen: Universal Fascism—Jonah for The Dispatch: “Trump, Vance, and the Greenland Effect” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Jonah Goldberg was proudly perusing his long list of previous Remnant guests when he discovered a crucial omission! Where is Matt Franck??? In today's episode, Jonah and Matt have a long overdue sit-down to chew over some important problems, including people's motivations for going MAGA, unitary executive theory, the pardon power, the Senate's role in preserving federalism, and what constitutional amendments they would support. Shownotes:—Matt Franck's Public Discourse page—Remnant with Laura Field on her book, Furious Minds—Morrison v. Olson—Jonah: “What is the most Burkean line from Animal House?”—New York Post on Denmark and the Virgin Islands—G-File: “Impeach Joe Biden … Seriously”—Yuval Levin: American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again—Last week's Dispatch Podcast The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

When Captain Jonah Goldberg goes missing during his icy search for the Northwest Passage, first mate Steve Hayes commandeers The HMS Remnant and steers her into troubled waters. Joined by The Dispatch's John McCormack, Steve invites aboard journalist Jason Zengerle to discuss his new book on the fascinating and unnerving career of Tucker Carlson. Together, the trio cover the creation of The Daily Caller, Tucker's Trump-fueled comeback at Fox, and his ultimate embrace of Nick Fuentes and the extreme right. Shownotes:—Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind—John McCormack for The Dispatch: “What Happened to Tucker Carlson?”—Steve's review of Hated by All the Right People—CPAC: Tucker Carlson Tries to Defend the New York Times, Gets Booed—Tucker talking to the firefighters—Patriot Purge—Steve's book: Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

As Jonah Goldberg gears up to brave the coming snowpocalypse, he pauses to consider the times, reflecting on President Donald Trump's waste of political capital over Greenland, the long-term effects of college protest culture, the creepiness of antisemitic thinking, and—most importantly—his takes on Star Trek and America's great sitcoms.Shownotes:—The most recent Dispatch Pod—Katie Pavlich interviews Trump for NewsNation—Last week's G-File—NYT post-mortem on Biden immigration policy—“U. Topia” - Jonah in National Review—GLoP podcast—“The 26 best neighbors in TV sitcom history, ranked” - Washington Post—Wednesday's G-File—Douthat's NYT piece—G-File on Nixon—Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Elliot Williams returns to The Remnant in triumph to discuss his new book, Five Bullets. Jonah Goldberg and Elliot brave technical difficulties to discuss the Bernie Goetz case, the blackout of ‘77, Rupert Murdoch, Trump's political origins, and the echoes of ‘80s New York today. Shownotes:—Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation—Most recent appearance of Elliot Williams on The Remnant The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Ken Pollack, vice president for policy at the Middle East Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the reality of regime change in Iran, what's next for the Iranian nuclear program, and the politics around taking Greenland.The Agenda:–Historical patterns of uprisings in Iran–Is this different?–It's the economy, stupid!–Potential military strategies–Understanding the Iranian threat–Iran's nuclear program–The shah's complex legacy–Greenland, now what?Show Notes:–Monday's TMD on Iran–The political theory that explains Trump's global power playsThe Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Jonah Goldberg starts this Ruminant off with a bang by defending his take on the ICE shooting, then jumping headfirst into his thoughts on Labor Department posts and Woodrow Wilson's fascistic America. He also muses on his father's defense of the Shah, takes on right- and left-wing antisemitism, and tries out a new metaphor for Donald Trump.Plus, listeners will be treated to ... a confession. Shownotes:—Jonah's take on the Minneapolis ICE shooting on The Dispatch Podcast—Advisory Opinions on the ICE shooting—Goldberg slams ‘grotesque and idiotic' response by some in GOP to deadly ICE shooting—Most recent Dispatch Podcast—Mike Allen at Axios on new White House concern over immigration—“There Will Be More Renee Goods” - Jeremiah Johnson at The Dispatch—Jonah's G-File on the Department of Labor—Jonah's book, Liberal Fascism—Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939—The Remnant: John Adams Was Not an Originalist | Interview: Lindsay Chervinsky—The Remnant: Patriots and Loyalists | Interview: Ken Burns—Foer in The Atlantic: ‘MAGA's Jewish Intellectuals Helped Create Their Own Predicament'—Yoni Appelbaum on The Remnant—Foer: ‘The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending'—Eli Lake on The Commentary Podcast—Mike Nelson in The Dispatch on America's red lines The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

In her debut appearance at Le Bistro Remnant, Rebecca Newberger-Goldstein serves up a philosophical Smörgåsbord for Jonah Goldberg, including the four forms of mattering, the distinction between humans and other animals, the brilliance and depression of William James, and the principle of entropy, all with a little bit of Spinoza sprinkled in. Shownotes:—The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us—Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity—36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction—Steven Pinker's essay on entropy—Jonah's most recent book—Dominion by Tom Holland—Steven Pinker's appearance on The Remnant—Megan McArdle—“The Brother I Lost” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Jonah Goldberg is joined by Ken Burns, the prolific American filmmaker behind documentaries on the Civil War and American Revolution. The two discuss the importance of historical narratives, why George Washington is so pivotal, and whether Jonah would have been a Loyalist or Patriot. Show Notes:—Washington Monthly's review of The American Revolution (2025)—Jonah's Next 250 essay: "The American Revolution Was a Really Big Deal" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the Trump administration's response to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the use of the word "regime," and where nationalism goes wrong. Show Notes:—Wednesday's G-File—Friday's Dispatch Podcast The Remnant is a production of ⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠⁠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

Jonah Goldberg is joined by returning guest Matt Ridley, author of Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea. The two discuss the beauty of birds and the distinction between natural selection and sexual selection, how species evolve to adapt to city life, and the origins of the COVID-19 virus.Show Notes:—Matt's previous appearance on The Remnant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second installment of The Remnant's unofficial presidential-biographers series, Jonah Goldberg powwows with Lindsay Chervinsky about John Adams, the Alien and Sedition Acts, unwritten laws, the pardon power, and the centrality of the Continental Army to the development of American identity. Plus, Jonah asks Lindsay about his favorite libertarian urban myth. Shownotes:—Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic—List of vice presidents of the United States—Remnant on Martin Van Buren—George Washington's cover letter—Jeffrey Rosen - The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America—General Orders, 4 July 1775 The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Jonah Goldberg ruminates on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's inauguration speech and the mayor's strange appeal to the "warmth of collectivism." He then reviews Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another and explains how the Minnesota fraud story is discrediting some mainstream journalists. Show Notes:—The Remnant with Chris Stirewalt The Remnant is a production of ⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠⁠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

Jonah Goldberg invites Nuke LaLoosh LARPer Chris Stirewalt to discuss the biggest political gaffes of 2025, debate whether House Speaker Mike Johnson is a human in a lizard suit or a lizard in a human suit, and name the most punchable faces from the past year. Show Notes:—Jonah's interview with Rahm Emmanuel The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Caving to popular demand for more talk about Straussians, Jonah Goldberg sits down with Laura Field to discuss the ideas driving the New Right. Follow Laura and Jonah as they fall down rabbit holes and explore digressions in the complicated story of 20th-century conservatism, the rise of MAGA, and the intellects behind Trumpism. Shownotes:—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right—Remnant on Straussians—Project 2025—“The Flight 93 Election”—Michael Anton: “Harry V. Jaffa: An Appreciation”—1776 Commission Report—Yoram Hazony: The Virtue of Nationalism—Herbert Croly: The Promise Of American Life—Charles A. Reich: The Greening of America—The 1619 Project—Marco Rubio: “Industrial Policy, Right and Wrong”—Patrick Deneen: Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future—The American Mind—Richard Reinsch: “‘Furious Minds' Review: The Road to MAGA”—Jonah on Invasion of the Body Snatchers and MAGA converts— Peter Schramm: “Born American, But in the Wrong Place” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—⁠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

Having a bad end of the year? You're not alone. Listen to Jonah take on those who say there's a war on Christmas, meander through some economic punditry (no, he is not an expert), and cheer on Ben Shapiro from the very lonely sidelines. Plus: We're rooting for you, Ben Sasse. Show Notes:—A Pilgrim's Calling—Democrats Are Thrilled That Trump Will Hit the Midterms Trail The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including access to all of Jonah's G-File newsletters—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