The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Is George Soros pure evil? Is nationalism? Why can’t Yale students use the term “master” anymore? Brookings Institution scholar and author of The End of Europe James Kirchick stops by The Remnant just before Thanksgiving to answer these and other pressing questions. Shownotes: Podium.com/Dingo Conversations with Kristol The End of Europe – James Kirchick “The Truth About … Continue reading Episode 72: A Riot of Nuance → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt rejoins The Remnant for a conversation on the midterms, the parties, and America’s political future. Show Notes: Audible.com/dingo Stamps.com, type in Dingo I’ll Tell You What – this week’s episode Sean Trende – “Was it a wave?” Intelligence Squared debate on the future of the Democratic party Special “I’ll … Continue reading Episode 71: Dire Chris Stirewalt → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a bit of a change of pace for The Remnant, Jonah invites Manhattan Institute senior fellow and homelessness policy expert Stephen Eide onto the show to discuss what to do about the plight of the homeless. Show Notes: “How to think about homelessness” – Stephen Eide Madness in the Streets Larry Hogue, the mad … Continue reading Episode 70: Fighting Homelessness → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did Beto blow it? Will the Republican party survive Trump? Is Jonah dyspeptic? The 69th Remnant, with National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty, attempts to answer these and other pressing questions. Show Notes: Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo Donorstrust.org/Dingo Sign up for NR Plus to listen to the previous Jim Geragthy Remnant episode Butlerian Jihad Geraghty on Trump … Continue reading Episode 69: Midterminal → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the last Remnant before the midterms, Jonah invites Senator Ben Sasse (R-Corn) back to the Remnant to discuss Them, his new book about giant ants. Jonah also does some particularly pungent rank punditry. Show Notes: Them – Ben Sasse The Vanishing American Adult – Ben Sasse Suicide of the West – Jonah Goldberg Coming Apart – Charles Murray … Continue reading Episode 68: Revenge of the Corn → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites National Review executive editor and author of the newly-released Melting Pot or Civil War onto The Remnant to discuss immigration, nationalism, solidarity, and his latent Bismarckian tendencies Show Notes: Podium.com/dingo National Review Editors podcast Melting Pot or Civil War – Reihan Salam National Review’s cover story/excerpt of Melting Pot or Civil War Me supporting the … Continue reading Episode 67: Immigration Reform for Fox and Vox → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Jonah vexed? What were the Saudis thinking? Is a blue wave imminent? Jonah answers all these questions and more on the latest Remnant. Or tries to, anyway. Show Notes: Conversations with Kristol, this episode’s sponsor. The Hazony Remnant . The Virtue of Nationalism – Yoram Hazony . Trump says he’s a nationalist . Robert Costa … Continue reading Episode 66: Post-Orb Potpourri → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is nationalism good? Are nations better than empires? Is John Locke bad? In conversation with Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, Jonah attempts to answer these and other questions on the latest Remnant. Show Notes: Them: Why We Hate Each Other–and How to Heal by Ben Sasse (R-Corn) Casper.com/Dingo Buy Suicide of the West My Notre … Continue reading Episode 65: Too Much Pluribus, Not Enough Unum → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off another road trip, but not in fresh clothing, Jonah makes time for some rank punditry on Nikki Haley, Kavanaugh, and tribal escalation. Show Notes: Yellow Springs, Ohio – Wikipedia page Jonah’s Yellow Springs hotel The Onion on the JFK assassination National Review Editors podcast The McCarthy Report The Commentary podcast Max Boots on … Continue reading Episode 64: Manbrosia Rank Punditry → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of The Remnant, Jonah invites Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff on to discuss The Coddling of the American Mind. And, in a Remnant first, there is a flashback to an earlier episode. Show Notes: The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff The Atlantic article that started it … Continue reading Episode 63: Snowflake Jacobins → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Jonah still on the road, he has time only for some brief commentary on the Kavanaugh debacle. This episode is otherwise a recording of a conversation between Jonah and Charles Murray, author of Coming Apart, on their respective oeuvres. Show Notes: My controversial NPR hit Conversations with Bill Kristol The Bahnsen Group Buy a … Continue reading Episode 62: In Case of Emergency, Talk To Charles Murray → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recording a podcast from atop the Gateway Arch (if only in spirit), Jonah answers listener questions and discourses on socialism with the help of his Sancho Panza in the latest episode of The Remnant. Show Notes: Come to the NRI dinner Get investment advice from the Bahnsen group National Review’s Kavanaugh content: -Editorial board -David … Continue reading Episode 61: Meet Me In St. Louis → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites Senator Ben Sasse (R-Corn) back to The Remnant for a wide-ranging conversation on the Republican Party, the state of our government, and…cats. Show Notes: DonorsTrust, this week’s sponsor Ben Sasse’s new cat Kill all cats? Sasse on leaving the Republican Party Sasse on congressional self-neutering Ramesh’s response to Sasse A Conflict of Visions by … Continue reading Episode 60: Stray Cats and Screaming Chyrons → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Someone must have touched the orb, because not only do we get two Remnants this week, but also Jonah travels through time for some rank punditry on the present and the future. Show Notes: DonorsTrust, this week’s sponsor The Peter Boettke podcast The Game of Shadows fight Me on the hand gesture fracas The Rob Long Remnant … Continue reading Episode 59: Post-Orb Punditry → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Returned from his vacation and already seeking refuge from D.C. craziness, Jonah invites Hayek expert and George Mason University professor Peter Boettke to discuss the ins and outs of F.A. Hayek. Show Notes: Peter Boettke’s GMU bio Peter Boettke’s new book on Hayek Hayek on “The Use of Knowledge in Society” Hayek’s Road to Serfdom … Continue reading Episode 58: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Not A Monetarist → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jonah Goldberg and Rob Long cross the streams between their co-hosted GLoP podcast (John Podhoretz is off this week) and The Remnant. They talk about Rob’s career in Hollywood, WhatAbout-ism, cross country traveling, and sure, a bit of monkeying around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does Trump have good character? Are digital assistants evil? Will Pippa ever get tired? In the midst of a journey across the country, Jonah takes time to answer these and other questions on the latest Remnant. Show Notes: You have died of dysentery My MAGA-Twitter-triggering question Paul Rahe on The Godfather Charles Kesler on norm-breaking The … Continue reading Episode 56: Tales From the Road → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’ve ever wanted to publish a book, this Remnant is for you. If not, well . . . please still listen. This episode’s guest is Jonah’s literary agent Jay Mandel, of WME Entertainment, who divulges as many of the secrets of book publishing success as the podcast length and format allows. Show Notes: Buy … Continue reading Episode 55: So You Want to Write a Book → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the dog days of summer emptying D.C., Jonah drags Matt Continetti, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, back onto the Remnant for some rank punditry, some Trumpsplaining, and some conservative nerdery. Show Notes: Buy Suicide of the West! My Special Report hit Trump thinks losing the House will be good for him The latest … Continue reading Episode 54: Bonfire of the Norms → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Saruman a Randian superman? Should Alex Jones be banned? Has Jonah ever made love in the back of a Model-T? New York Times columnist and National Review film critic Ross Douthat returns to The Remnant to answer (or ask!) these and other pressing questions (yes, really). Show Notes: The National Review editors’ podcast Grand New … Continue reading Episode 53: Douthat II: Electric Boogaloo → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s episode avoids rank punditry and unapologetic eggheadery in pursuit of unadulterated nerdiness and pop culture thumbsuckery. For such a task, there’s no better guest than the co-host of the Weekly Substandard podcast and executive editor of the Washington Free Beacon, Sonny Bunch. It’s the crossover to end all crossovers. He and Jonah discuss Star Wars revisionism, the “Golden … Continue reading Episode 52: Sonny Bunches of Takes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Millenarians the worst? Is China poised to dominate the world? Was the 2008 financial crisis only the fault of Wall Street? David Bahnsen, author of Crisis of Responsibility and National Review Institute trustee, joins The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: The Bahnsen Group. Grab a copy of Things That Matter. Learn more … Continue reading Episode 51: Millenarians Are The Worst → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

England-born newly-minted American citizen Charlie Cooke, editor of NationalReview.com, joins Jonah for the 50th episode of the Remnant. They have a merry time discussing why Charlie loves America, why he’s a conservatarian, what he thinks of Brexit, and whether it’s necessary to pledge fealty to President Trump. Jonah also forces him to read some words … Continue reading Episode 50: The British American Conservatarian Florida Man → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites Jay Cost, AEI Visiting Fellow and author of The Price of Greatness, onto The Remnant for a very nerdy discussion of republicanism, the Founding, and the state of our government. Show Notes: Check out this episode’s sponsor, Conversations with Kristol. Jay Cost’s new book, The Price of Greatness. And one of his previous books, A … Continue reading Episode 49: Identity Politics Yahtzee → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one joins Jonah for the latest Remnant, which he compensates for by being extra discursive and dyspeptic about the news (Supreme Court, Democrat overreaction) and pop culture (Ocean’s 8, Incredibles 2) of the day. Show Notes: Here’s the latest episode of Jack’s new podcast Young Americans. “The Organization Kid,” by David Brooks. 72 virgins … Continue reading Episode 48: Slipshod Edition → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites Cato Institute legal scholar Ilya Shapiro back on to The Remnant for some rank legal punditry: a rundown of the cases the Supreme Court decided this term and speculation about what happens to the Court now that Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Show Notes: Ilya’s last appearance on the Remnant. The opening of … Continue reading Episode 47: The Sweet Mystery of Anthony Kennedy → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political strategist, erstwhile academic, and friend of NR Luke Thompson joins The Remnant for a discursive discussion of the fine art of campaign consulting, the ins and outs of U.S. history, and the future of the Republican Party. Show Notes: Luke’s podcast, Constitutionally Speaking. A commercial for the TRS-80 computer. My article on the problems … Continue reading Episode 46: Comfortable, Smug, But Not Comfortably Smug → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Remnant reunites Jonah with his fellow goatee-sporting journalist Steve Hayes, the editor-in-chief of the Weekly Standard. Jonah tries to keep the chicken wings and cheese curds away from Steve long enough for them to talk about the state of the Republican Party, Charles Krauthammer, and . . . fraternity pledging? Show Notes: Steve … Continue reading Episode 45: Purple Hayes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the president pardon himself? Are cakes free speech? What is the tonnage clause? Jonah invites Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute senior fellow in constitutional studies, onto the Remnant to answer these and other legal questions. Show Notes: Matthew Franck’s piece on the issues with a presidential self-pardon. Salena Zito’s new book on the Great Revolt. … Continue reading Episode 44: Get Me Another Shapiro! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty rejoins the Remnant for a wide-ranging discussion about Roseanne and Samantha Bee, double standards, the pardon power, and Solo. Show Notes: The article I wrote on my father-in-law and immigration. Paul Gavora’s obituary. Subscribe to National Review. And The Weekly Standard. And Commentary. And while you’re at it, buy a copy of Suicide … Continue reading Episode 43: The Age of Double Standards → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Enjoying a brief respite from his book tour, Jonah takes time to memorialize his larger-than-life father-in-law, address critics of Suicide of the West (buy now!), and engage in some rank punditry on Mueller, China, and North Korea. Show Notes: The GLoP episode in which I discussed my father-in-law’s journey to America. Turns out a Nixon … Continue reading Episode 42: Numb As a Podcast → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are media outlets dishonest? How should conservatives treat Trump? Is DC better than Marvel? Live from Ben Shapiro’s L.A. lair, Jonah attempts to answer these and other pressing questions. Show Notes: Check out my interview on Ben Shapiro’s “Sunday Special” podcast. Seth Stevenson’s piece on Shapiro. Shapiro’s Weekly Standard piece on young conservatives. …And my piece on … Continue reading Episode 41: Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of the Remnant, Jonah fights travel exhaustion and fields reader questions on subjects from Bigfoot erotica to Suicide of the West and everything in between. Show Notes: The part in Tyranny of Cliches in which I explain why the “I may not like what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the … Continue reading Episode 40: Jet Lag Q&A → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The second half of Jonah’s conversation with Hoover Institution Fellow and Econtalk podcast host Russ Roberts moves away from the abstract and the philosophical and more into the contemporary and the political. Jonah and Russ also search for something on which they might disagree. Show Notes: Remnant episodes with Matt Continetti and Megan McArdle. F.A. Hayek’s Nobel Prize … Continue reading Episode 39: Econtalked: Part II → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When is a podcast too long? Should we hate pragmatism? Are economists a guild? Jonah invites Russ Roberts, Hoover Institution fellow and host of the Econtalk podcast, to attempt to answer these and other questions, in the first part of their conversation. Show Notes: My appearance on Econtalk. Jerry Muller’s appearance on Econtalk. Jerry Muller … Continue reading Episode 38: Econtalked → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can liberals understand conservatives? Is civil society decaying? Is staging a fake assassination attempt on yourself a good way to win reelection? Washington Examiner commentary editor Tim Carney rejoins the Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: The Weekly Standard podcast, live from the Midwest. Noah Rothman on liberalism’s current fatalist conceit. Vanity … Continue reading Episode 37: Effulgent Punditry → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a lot of drama unfolding these days in the Korea peninsula, Jonah invites AEI scholar and North Korea expert Nicholas Eberstadt to help make sense of North Korea, the Kim family, President Trump’s new approach to the problem, and more. Show Notes: My conversation with Kristol. Nick Eberstadt’s conversation with Kristol. Buy my book. … Continue reading Episode 36: The Flimflam Kim Fam → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah finds time in the midst of his whirlwind book tour for a special New York episode of the Remnant with National Review senior contributor Michael Brendan Dougherty. They have a wide-ranging discussion on ethnic pride, nationalism and patriotism, Ireland, and more. Show Notes: Proud To Be Right, an anthology of young conservative voices published … Continue reading Episode 35: Enchanting Creeds and the Enchanted Isle → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the golden age of globalism about to come to an end? Jonah invites Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer, author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, onto the Remnant to find out. Show Notes: Scott Lincicome’s nacho recipe. More on Ian Bremmer’s Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism. Robert Putnam on diversity and … Continue reading Episode 34: The Cleanest Dirty Shirt → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trade lawyer and Cato Institute scholar Scott Lincicome returns to the Remnant as we await the US-China trade war that may or may not happen to tell us what we should or should not do. Show Notes: My website list of upcoming public appearances. My website landing page for buying Suicide of the West. My National Review magazine excerpt … Continue reading Episode 33: The Nacho Situation → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest Remnant, Washington Examiner commentary editor Tim Carney joins Jonah to discuss the headlines of the day (the Cohen raid, Syria, the 2018 midterms) and to do a deeper dive on the nature of crony capitalism. Show Notes: The column Tim Carney was working on before and after he recorded this episode. More information about … Continue reading Episode 32: Blarney Tim Carney → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest Remnant invites New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, author of the newly-released To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism, to discuss Pope Francis and state of the Catholic Church. Show Notes: Official book page for To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism by Ross Douthat. Ross Douthat’s essay-length … Continue reading Episode 31: Is the Pope Catholic? → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Returning from exile, and just back from a trip abroad, Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) rejoins The Remnant for a wildly discursive episode on cybersecurity, congressional dysfunction, populism, and cryptozoology. Show Notes: The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury, which Ben Sasse recommended as a must-read on China’s strategic vision. “Navigating Conflicts in Cyberspace: Legal Lessons from the … Continue reading Episode 30: The Nebraska Shuffle → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah takes a break from his vacation for another podcast potpourri Remnant. Joined by Michael Pratt and Jack Butler, he answers listener questions and settles some scores. Show Notes: The Washington Post’s surprising coverage of the March For Our Lives. My daughter doing trapeze stunts. My column on John Paul Stevens and the Second Amendment, … Continue reading Episode 29: Podcast Potpourri III: Podcast with a Vengeance → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Because the Rothschilds prevented a high-minded podcast with Ross Douthat (rescheduled) Jonah ventures back into rankest of rank punditry with National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty. The tastefully dressed Geraghty helps navigate the tricky terrain of Cambridge Analytica, Stormy Daniels, the 2018 midterms, and more. Show Notes: The D.C. city councilman who accused the … Continue reading Episode 28: So Much Rank Punditry, They Should Have Sent a Poet → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Past Remnant guests Charles Murray and Steve Hayward join Jonah for an unprecedented recording of the Remnant with a live studio audience. They discuss their own lives and take questions from an audience of young people seeking direction about their futures. Show Notes: The Charles Murray Remnant episode. The Steve Hayward Remnant episode. The Curmudgeon’s … Continue reading Episode 27: Get Off Our Lawn → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In another trial run at a special All Rank Punditry edition of the Remnant, Jonah and his Sancho Panza tackle the Windmills in the news this week, from Hillary’s gaffe, Tillerson’s defenestration and the augurs of PA-18. Show Notes: Childhood’s End, the book mentioned as describing a child’s psychic exploration of the universe. An explanation … Continue reading Episode 26: Hillary’s Pillory, Lamb’s Slaughter → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest Remnant, Weekly Standard managing editor Christine Rosen lends her varied expertise to a far-ranging discussion on eugenics, Hollywood, the “Me Too” movement, the future of capitalism, and more. Show Notes: Christine’s bio page at The Weekly Standard, including more information about her books, such as Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, … Continue reading Episode 25: The Chosen Rosen → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can a president break the law? Is intelligence from the Steele Dossier actionable for FISA warrant? Should we let lawyers make all of our decisions for us? Former federal prosecutor and senior National Review Institute fellow Andrew McCarthy joins The Remnant to answer these and other pressing legal questions of the day. Show Notes: Andrew … Continue reading Episode 24: Lawyer, Guns & Money (Minus the Money) → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pressed for time and fighting technical glitches, Jonah takes the Remnant into the perilous field of podcast rank punditry, opining at moderate length about this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the Parkland shooting, and the Russia investigation. Show Notes: Richard Brookhiser on the state of the conservative movement 10 years after William F. Buckley … Continue reading Episode 23: CPAC, Guns, and Russians: Oh My! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices