The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Remnant regular and Cato Institute trade expert Scott Lincicome returns to the show for his periodic trade update, and to discuss whether the “national conservatism” assessment of trade is correct. Sign up for the G-File Remnant Episode 10: Afraid of Trade? – Scott Lincicome Remnant Episode 33: The Nacho Situation – Scott Lincicome Remnant Episode … Continue reading Episode 122: The Lincicome Ultimatum → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manhattan Institute budget wonk Brian Riedl joins the Remnant for a long, wonky discussion of debt, deficits, taxation, and spending…all while trying to keep the amount of truly intimidating math at a minimum. Shownotes Sign up for the G-File “New Budget Deal Puts Final Nail in the Tea-Party Coffin” by Brian Riedl The Remnant episode … Continue reading Episode 121: Math! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politico chief political correspondent Tim Alberta joins the Remnant to discuss the behind-the-scenes machinations and the long-term implications of Trump’s securing the Republican presidential nomination–and then the presidency itself–in 2016, the subjects of his new book: American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump. Shownotes American … Continue reading Episode 120: American Carnage → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the thrilling conclusion to the epic two-parter with historian David Pietrusza, Jonah and David confront the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, and engage in some Wilson-bashing. Shownotes Illiberal Reformers by Thomas Leonard Davis-Bacon Act Wilson’s 1911 sterilization law The Conservative Sensibility by George Will Leaders of Men by Woodrow Wilson “The New Freedom,” Woodrow Wilson … Continue reading Episode 119: Pietrusza Potpourri, Part Two: Wilson-Bashing → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of Six Presidents, joins the Remnant for part one of an epic tour through 20th century American history. This first episode focuses on the six(!?) presidents of 1920, and on related contemporary national and international history. All the while, a sinister figure lurks in the background, to be … Continue reading Episode 118: Pietrusza Potpourri, Part One: The Podcast of Six Presidents → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A.B. Stoddard, Real Clear Politics associate editor and columnist (and fellow Fox News panelist), joins the Remnant for an episode that manages to discuss the ins and outs of Congress and politics (without mentioning Paul Ryan because his return to the news cycle came after this podcast’s recording). Shownotes The Long Game podcast featuring A.B. … Continue reading Episode 117: The ABCs of Politics with A.B. → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle returns to the Remnant to discuss the controversy over women’s soccer, the stupidities of the modern Internet, and the virtues of owning a dog. Shownotes “Why the debate about equal pay for U.S. women’s soccer isn’t that clear cut” – Megan McArdle Forbes: The richest people in the world 2019 … Continue reading Episode 116: Megan McArdle vs. the Argle-Bargle → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bahnsen Group founder and Crisis of Responsibility author David Bahnsen returns to the Remnant for a wide-ranging conversation on religion, finance, politics, and more. Shownotes The Bahnsen Group Crisis of Responsibility – David Bahnsen The last David Bahnsen episode Sign up for the new G-File Theonomy in Christian Ethics – Greg Bahnsen The 50th anniversary edition of … Continue reading Episode 115: The Bahnsen Barnburner → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Remnant tries a new experiment that may be the beginning of a new era or a quickly-forgotten one-off: an audio recording of this week’s Goldberg File, the (in)famous weekly newsletter (in case you didn’t know). Shownotes -My latest column -Cultural appropriation is great –Kapotasana -America is getting less racist -A terrible person -Sign up … Continue reading Episode 114: The G-File? → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cato Institute Constitutional Studies Director Ilya Shapiro–and dual U.S.-Canadian citizen–joins the Remnant for the second year of what we are hoping will become his annual Supreme Court end-of-term roundup. And he gets in some celebrations of Canada for an episode recorded on Canada Day. Shownotes Remnant Episode 44 with Ilya Shapiro Remnant Episode 47 with … Continue reading Episode 113: Straddling the 49th Parallel → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thriller author Brad Thor joins the Remnant to discuss Backlash, his latest nailbiter, and to examine his creative process and engage in some trademark Remnant rank punditry. Shownotes Backlash by Brad Thor Congressman Riggleman and Bigfoot erotica Brad Thor’s inspiration for his first book James Foley and Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell The original cliffhanger Lone Survivor … Continue reading Episode 112: Thor’s Wrath → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unstuck in time, Jonah and Jack resort to that most desperate measure of a beleaguered podcast: an AMA Q&A. Shownotes Jonah Goldberg C-SPAN interview with George Will BringFido.com Milton Himmelfarb Quote Kirsten Gillibrand on Abortion Deadwood Spoiler alert: not the dogs! “Revelations” –er, “Revelation” Tweet Papal Ninjas? Jonathan Last on “Frenchism” The Simpsons: Marge’s “Monkees” … Continue reading Episode 111: Unstuck in Time → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Review senior writer Jim Geraghty earns the honor of being Jonah’s first former National Review colleague to join the Remnant, coming onto the show to discuss Between Two Scorpions, his new thriller, and for some slightly-less-rank punditry. Shownotes: Between Two Scorpions: A Dangerous Clique Novel, by Jim Geraghty The Weed Agency by Jim Geraghty … Continue reading Episode 110: Between Two Podcasts → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites George Will, author of The Conservative Sensibility, onto the Remnant to discuss the book and how George Will helped make him into a pundit in the first place. Shownotes: On Albert Jay Nock Memoirs of a Superfluous Man – Albert Jay Nock Our Enemy, the State – Albert Jay Nock “Isaiah’s Job” – Albert … Continue reading Episode 109: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bears Want To Kill You author Ethan Nicolle joins The Remnant to counter incessant bear propaganda. Show Notes: On bear propaganda Inspiring: Painter Creates Moving Art Pieces Showing Jesus’s Influence On The Trump Presidency Seinfeld: “No, it offends me as a comedian!” How to escape a prayer circle Axe Cop – Ethan Nicolle Bearmageddon – … Continue reading Episode 108: Bears! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is America going to war with Iran? What is John Bolton up to? What does Cyrus the Great have to do with it? AEI scholar Ken Pollack joins The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: AEI page for Ken Pollack Ken Pollack on war with Iran Get NR Plus to listen to … Continue reading Episode 107: It All Goes Back To Cyrus the Great → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is everything the Boomers’ fault? Are Millennials actually the victims? Is Gen X the best generation? Jonah brings Wall Street Journal editorial board member and author of Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future Joe Sternberg onto The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: Untuckit.com, use … Continue reading Episode 106: Blame the Boomers → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AEI scholar and (AEI president-to-be) Robert Doar joins The Remnant to talk New York politics, how capitalism isn’t failing, Seinfeld, and more. Show Notes: Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo The most recent Remnant, with John Tillman Who is Robert Doar? Who was John Doar? Losing Ground – Charles Murray Who was Ben Wattenberg? The Ungovernable City – Vincent J. … Continue reading Episode 105: Open Doar Policy → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happened to Illinois? Why is Chicago so corrupt? Who is Michael Madigan, and why do the answers to both questions involve him? Live from Chicago itself, Jonah attempts to answer these questions with the help of John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute. Show Notes: The Illinois Policy Institute John Tillman, Illinois Policy … Continue reading Episode 104: Chicago! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah and his majordomo go guestless for the first time in a while for some rank punditry on Bill Barr and the Democratic field, and for some pop culture punditry on Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones. Show Notes: The Sowell episode The JG Prime episode The MBD episode My Father Left Me Ireland – … Continue reading Episode 103: Violent Nuance → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty returns to The Remnant to discuss nationalism, patriotism, and identity, the themes of his new book, My Father Left Me Ireland. Show Notes: Michael Brendan Dougherty’s National Review page My Father Left Me Ireland – Michael Brendan Dougherty An Atlantic article sampling the book Nietzsche’s last men Nationalism … Continue reading Episode 102: My Podcast Left Me Ireland → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do politicians write their own books? What was it like to play basketball against Sarah Palin? How much of a slob is Jonah Goldberg? Jessica Gavora, noted D.C.-area writer (and wife of Jonah Goldberg) appears on the 101st (?) episode of The Remnant to answer these and other pressing questions. Show Notes: DonorsTrust.org/Dingo The Thomas … Continue reading Episode 101: JG Squared → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the 100th (?) episode of The Remnant, Thomas Sowell, who needs no introduction, joins Jonah for a long conversation on discrimination, inequality, the uses and misuses of economics (all subjects covered in the new edition of Discrimination and Disparities, out now), and more. Show Notes: DonorsTrust.org/Dingo Thomas Sowell’s Hoover Institution page Conflict of Visions … Continue reading Episode 100: The Sowell of Economics → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is “nationalism”? Does it need to be benign? Is there a conservative case for the Austro-Hungarian Empire? The latest episode of The Remnant is actually audio of a conversation between Jonah, Rich Lowry, and Jim Geraghty at the 2019 National Review Ideas Summit. Show Notes: Rich and Ramesh’s nationalism cover essay Tennyson on the “Parliament … Continue reading Episode 99: Debat—er—“Discussing” Nationalism → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Mason University economics professor Tyler Cowen rejoins The Remnant for a wide-ranging conversation on big business, liberty, capitalism, and more, inspired by his new book, Big Business: A Love Letter To An American Anti-Hero. Show Notes: The Barry Strauss episode, with Jack Butler hosting Get NR Plus to listen to the last Remnant episode … Continue reading Episode 98: Dr. Cowen; Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Big Business → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remnant sidekick Jack Butler executes a coup, taking over the show from Jonah to host an episode interviewing Cornell University classical historian Barry Strauss about ancient Rome, which he covers in his new book, Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine. Show Notes: Get NRPlus at NationalReview.com/Plus Barry Strauss at Cornell University Ten Caesars: … Continue reading Episode 97: What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us? → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should we worry about income inequality? Is life better for most people today or 100 years ago? Is Bruce Springsteen’s music any good? AEI economics scholar Michael Strain returns to The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: Beto’s tweet Michael Strain’s AEI page Michael Strain’s Bloomberg page Michael Strain’s take on Thanos … Continue reading Episode 96: Strain Explains → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Review senior writer David French returns to The Remnant to discuss nationalism, Mueller, Marvel, and more. Show Notes: National Review Institute nationalism panel Get NR Plus to listen to the Yoram Hazony Remnant David French on God, Israel, and nationalism Michael Brendan Dougherty on modern nationalism as irritation David French on being dunked on … Continue reading Episode 95: French New .WAV → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back from his trip abroad, Jonah returns to D.C. for some rank Mueller punditry and some aimless Jack-assisted potpourri. Show Notes: Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo Untuckit.com, use promo code Dingo On loving curses On hard collusion skepticism Will Saletan on Barr’s weasel words The second David French Remnant Dissolve the people and elect another Charlotte Allen (not Charlotte … Continue reading Episode 94: International Podcast of Mystery → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Remnant performs one of its trademark deep-dives on policy, this time about opioids and with the help of AEI scholar and practicing psychiatrist Dr. Sally Satel. Show Notes: sbalist.org/remnant Sally Satel’s AEI scholar page House Energy and Commerce Oversight Committee Report on opioid distribution failures “Taking On the Scourge of Opioids” – Sally Satel … Continue reading Episode 93: Confronting the Opioid Crisis → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Outgoing AEI president Arthur Brooks steps out of legend and into The Remnant to discuss how to heal our politically divided nation, the subject of his new book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt. Show Notes: Arthur Brooks’ book, Love Your Enemies The new adventure with Steve … Continue reading Episode 92: Loving Your Enemies → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s this? A piece of Remnant apocrypha, long thought lost, has been recovered! Indeed: A conversation last November between Jonah and Rob Long on the last National Review cruise now sees the light of day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Remnant, National Review senior editor David French joins Jonah for a wide-ranging discussion of politics and pop culture and Jonah’s new media venture. Show Notes: Get NR Plus to listen to episode five, with guests Ben Sasse and David French Tennessee testicle dipper David French’s National Review page David’s article … Continue reading Episode 90: French Connections → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Chevy Chase, Maryland and Oostburg, Wisconsin have in common? Why should you start a T-Ball team? Can dying towns come back to life? Washington Examiner commentary editor Tim Carney rejoins The Remnant to answer these and other questions raised by his new book: Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse. Show … Continue reading Episode 89: Alien Nation → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miffed by losing his British accent monopoly on The Remnant, NationalReview.com editor Charles C.W. Cooke returns to the show to discuss Trump’s declaration of emergency, our decaying constitutional framework, accents, and more. Show Notes: Charles Cooke’s National Review page Get NR Plus to listen to the last Charles Cooke episode Ace of Spades on MacGuffins … Continue reading Episode 88: A Faux-Declaration of Non-Emergency → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was Karl Marx an anti-Semite? Are Jews money-worshippers? Does anyone even remember that Marx wrote an essay “On The Jewish Question”? Jonah is interviewed by Jonathan Silver of the Tikvah Fund for an episode of the Tikvah Podcast that we have cross-posted here. Show Notes: The Tikvah Fund The Tikvah Podcast Jonah on The Tikvah … Continue reading Episode 87: Marxist Table Turning → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Venezuela collapse? Will Maduro be overthrown? Is God Emperor of Dune the key to understanding American politics in 2019? Venezuela expert and AEI scholar Roger Noriega comes onto The Remnant to answer the first two questions, leaving Jonah and his Sancho Paza to attempt to answer the third by themselves. Show Notes: Roger Noriega … Continue reading Episode 86: Venezwailin’ → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Brexit actually happen? Why is England so weird? Why does America rock? Member of European Parliament (for now) and leading Brexiteer Daniel Hannan joins The Remnant to break Charles Cooke’s British accent monopoly on the show and to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Invented the Modern World – … Continue reading Episode 85: Weird English, Awesome Americans → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Noah Rothman, associate editor of Commentary, joins The Remnant for some light punditry and some heavy nerdery on the misuses of social justice, apropos his new book, Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America. Show Notes: Trade Builds America The National Review Institute The National Review Institute Ideas Summit – register today Noah Rothman’s … Continue reading Episode 84: Social Justice: It’s a Put-On → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Howard Schultz be president? Is Gen Z worse than Millennials? Who will win the 2020 Democratic nomination? Noted augur Kristen Soltis Anderson returns to The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: Trade Builds America Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo Follow Kristen Soltis Anderson on Twitter Subscribe to NR Plus to listen to the last episode … Continue reading Episode 83: The Haruspex Returns → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can we stop nukes from hitting us? Should we worry about North Korea? Where are all the lasers? Missile defense expert Tom Karako joins The Remnant to answer these and other important questions. Show Notes: Buy shirts at Untuckit with promo code DINGO for 20 percent off Trade Builds America Thomas Karako’s CSIS biography Tarako on the … Continue reading Episode 82: Dr. Karako; Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Missile Defense → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane onto The Remnant to discuss how he defeated Darth Vader, why journalism is so terrible right now, what the 2020 Democratic field looks like, and more. Show Notes: Charles Lane’s Washington Post column Shattered Glass Steve Glass’ CPAC story Buy shirts at Untuckit with promo code DINGO … Continue reading Episode 81: Stay In Your Lane → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Last, executive editor of The Bulwark and the last of the Sub-Beacon trio to appear on The Remnant, joins Jonah for a rollicking round of repartee about Trump, the Democrats, and Star Wars. Show Notes: Behold: The Bulwark The Bulwark podcast that mentions me Albert Jay Nock on “Isaiah’s Job” The Weekly Sub-Beacon “The … Continue reading Episode 80: The Last Podcast → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the working class made of candy glass? Is Oren Cass wrong? Is the universe probabilistic? AEI economics scholar Michael Strain joins The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: The Oren Cass Remnant The Once and Future Worker – Oren Cass Yuval Levin’s take on Tucker National Review’s Editors debate on their podcast … Continue reading Episode 79: Economic Strain → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the working class be saved? Should we fight China’s trade war depredations? Will Jonah survive jet lag? Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute scholar and author of The Once and Future Worker, joins 2019’s first Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: The Once and Future Worker – Oren Cass Oren’s argument, summarized by … Continue reading Episode 78: Make Work Great Again → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the last Remnant of the year, Jonah makes a special trip to the offices of the Rosslyn Free Beacon for a little light rank punditry with Free Beacon editor-in-chief Matt Continetti, and some heavier pop culture discussion with Free Beacon executive editor Sonny Bunch. Show Notes: Me on how the Democrats could still blow … Continue reading Episode 77: The Rosslyn Free Beacon Remnant → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is Jurassic Park unrealistic? Why was Woodrow Wilson so bad? Does it help Trump to appease his base and alienate everyone else? Jonah answers these questions, or at least attempts to, on the penultimate episode of The Remnant this year. Show Notes: Get NRPlus to listen to the Andy Ferguson Remnant episode The Biology … Continue reading Episode 76: Pet Peeve Festival → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is a Crusonia plant? Where did prosperity come from? Can Jonah get a laconic libertarian to digress? Tyler Cowen, George Mason University economics professor and author of Stubborn Attachments, joins the Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: Stamps.com, enter DINGO. Conversations with Kristol The Complacent Class – Tyler Cowen The Great Stagnation – … Continue reading Episode 75: Stubbornly Attached → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is Florida so weird? Can government unite us? Is Charles Cooke still a British citizen? The editor of NationalReview.com himself returns to The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: DonorsTrust.org/Dingo National Review Editors’ podcast NationalReview.com Jonah on the Cylons Charles Cooke’s review of Daniel Hannan’s Inventing Liberty Charles Cooke against George … Continue reading Episode 74: Charles Cooke II: Cruise Ship Boogaloo → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Congress be fixed? Is Breaking Bad the greatest TV show of all time? Can we fix this nation’s problems by installing pull-up bars in every airport? Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Cheese) joins The Remnant to answer these and other pressing questions. Show Notes: There can be only one… Mike Gallagher – “How To Fix … Continue reading Episode 73: Curdish Freedom Fighter → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices