The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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

George Mason University economics professor Bryan Caplan joins The Remnant to discuss his latest book, The Case Against Education. While agreeing with much of Caplan’s case, Jonah spends a good portion of the podcast in the difficult task of trying to prove a smart libertarian wrong. Show Notes: Bryan Caplan’s website, including sale links to … Continue reading Episode 22: We Don’t Need No Education → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an homage to the star-stuffed 70s disaster movies they both know and love so well, Jonah invites Commentary magazine editor and GLoP Culture co-host John Podhoretz on for a wide-ranging discussion on movies, TV, New York, neoconservatism, and much more. In fitting ’70s disaster movie fashion, a special guest star makes a surprise cameo. When … Continue reading Episode 21: When Worlds Collide! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle joins Jonah in the latest Remnant to offer a sensible libertarian’s perspective on whether dogs are Marxist, whether drugs should be legalized, whether libertarians should be classified by their preferred subway stop, and whether you should go to that party or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this guest-free free-for-all Jonah and Co attempt to answer listener questions, but end up mostly talking about alcohol, Star Trek, and (caution to listeners with kids in the car) telling slightly bawdy jokes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest Remnant, Jonah surveys the public opinion landscape with pollster extraordinaire Kristen Soltis Anderson. They talk fecal craters and 2018 midterms, with a bonus aside about the #MeToo movement. Meanwhile, Jonah may have found his signoff phrase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Murray comes to the Remnant with the wisdom of a decades-long career and now 75 years of life for a fascinating conversation with Jonah. They cover the bases . . . if your bases are social science, the future of America, and whether there can be such a thing as a “vodka martini.” The … Continue reading Episode 17: Genes, Gin, and Government → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah rocks the casbah in the latest Remnant, with Middle East scholar Michael Rubin, who helps him assess the condition of the regimes of Iran and Turkey and the status of the Middle East and Islam generally.Podcast intro and closing music is “March of the Elephants” by Remnant listener Craig Robison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox News’s Chris Stirewalt joins Jonah for the latest Remnant to discuss the decrepit state of our media and politics. Also, Jonah and co wrap up the show with a highly self-indulgent year in review. New podcast music by Rob Alley. Show Notes: Give a listen to Chris’ political trivia showdown with Peter McMahon. Your … Continue reading Episode 15: Our Mediocre Media → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah climbs high into the (metaphorical) Himalayas in this week’s Remnant, in search of advice from Arthur Brooks, the guru-like president of the American Enterprise Institute. They meditate upon various topics, including but not limited to finding meaning in life, what’s next for American politics, and what’s so special about the French horn. New podcast … Continue reading Episode 14: Arthur Brooks’s The Meaning of Life → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah goes guest-free in this week’s Remnant, allowing him to engage in some rank punditry about Roy Moore’s defeat in Alabama and answer listener questions. The show runs the gamut from veganism, best conservative books, and best Twitter accounts, to trade deficits, Al Gore’s inhuman presence, advice for motivating bright but lazy teenage boys, and … Continue reading Episode 13: Podcast Potpourri → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest Remnant, Jonah talks with Steve Hayward, currently a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley — and a conservative. They discuss how what conservatives can do to make more inroads into higher education, and why elite schools should welcome the effort. Other topics include Who was Leo Strauss? Are the East Coast-West … Continue reading Episode 12: Episode Behind Enemy Lines → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As The Remnant enters double digits, Jonah journeys into the international marketplace, with Cato Institute trade scholar and trade lawyer Scott Lincicome as his guide. Jonah and Scott defend free trade, and try to answer its critics. Show Notes: Be sure to check out Donors Trust. Slideshow…boring…losing…consciousness… To give you some idea what Howard Hughes … Continue reading Episode 11: Afraid of Trade? → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah invites fellow conservative history geek Matt Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon to explore the past, present, and future of conservatism as an ideology and as a movement. They pick up heaping helpings of neoconservatism, paleoconservatism, libertarianism, and Reaganism en route to a dessert of denouncing Sonny Bunch. Show Notes: Subscribe to The Remnant … Continue reading Episode 9: Arguing at the Right-Wing Thanksgiving Dinner Table → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Breaking away from the shackles of the guest-interview format, our host discourses on the sexual misconduct wave moving through Washington, and explains how it’s all Bill Clinton’s fault. If that doesn’t hook you, then stick around for the Bigfoot erotica at the end. Show Notes: Obama’s shellacking. Trump’s schlong moment. The Seinfeld episode where Jerry tried to return … Continue reading Episode 8: Predators, Real And Imagined → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joined this time by Vulcan extraordinaire (and National Review senior editor) Ramesh Ponnuru, our hangover-defying host travels to such far-flung worlds as the Virginia gubernatorial elections, the prospects for tax reform, and the history of neoconservatism. Show Notes: My debut appearance on The Editors podcast at NR. People willing themselves to live longer with the promise … Continue reading Episode 7: Micro-aggressed by the Dalai Lama → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this slightly profanity-laden episode of The Remnant, Andrew Ferguson fanboy Jonah Goldberg asks the vital questions of the day. What is human nature? Will the conservative movement endure? What is a martini? How horrible a boss is Steve Hayes? Show Notes: My badge of honor. Andrew Ferguson on Steven Pinker’s “auditory cheesecake” theory of … Continue reading Episode 6: Important Questions → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything old is new again on the fifth episode of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg. Our intrepid host brings back recurring guest star Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) to talk sports, current events, and survivalism, and invites National Review staff writer David French to discuss the return of The Walking Dead and what do in the … Continue reading Episode 5: Surviving the Apocalypse → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the fourth episode of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, our intrepid host talks chicken wings, cheese, and politics with thoroughgoing Wisconsinite Steve Hayes, editor of the Weekly Standard. Stick around for the end as well, when Jonah responds to uh . . . ah . . . listener criticism. Show Notes: “Shut up,” he explained. … Continue reading Episode 4: Chicken Wings, Cheese, and Politics → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remnant host Jonah Goldberg continues his quest to get comfortable with this strange medium. Back by popular demand is Senator Ben Sasse (R-Cornhuskers) to explain why we can’t have nice things. Jonah responds to listener feedback and also tells us what he thinks about “whatabout-ism.” He also spends maybe a little too much time talking … Continue reading Episode 3: Whatabout-ism → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second episode of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, the host begins to gain his podcast sea legs with the help of the least famous famous person in D.C.: egghead extraordinaire Yuval Levin, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and National Affairs. Topics include: the role of institutions, what’s wrong with our politics, nationalism … Continue reading Episode 2: Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices