Lil’ Jacobins
Jonah gratefully drags a harried Niall Ferguson onto the show, which begins with Angela Merkel and ends with “copious quantities of claret.” Listen to Jonah and Niall — mostly Niall, of the Mellifluous Voice — speak in tongues, lament the destruction of critical thinking in universities, and sneak in a jab at Woodrow Wilson [dun dun dun]. Show Notes: -Angela Merkel on “the toughest situation” in Europe’s history -Communities of fate, coined by our grave German friends -The New Republic’s contest for the most boring headline -Rescuing the nation-state, commentary by Alan S. Milward -Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson -That whom Niall is not -The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations, by Paul Kennedy -Cornell, guns-on-campus -Too many educated men, by Boyle -NBER paper on how more people actually stayed home during the protests -Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy -Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson -Piece by Niall and Eyck Freymann -Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism, by Derrick Bell -For fun, the Yale Course Catalog, which Jonah perused a few years ago -ExpressVPN.com/Remnant for 3 months free off a year-long plan
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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Show Notes
Jonah gratefully drags a harried Niall Ferguson onto the show, which begins with Angela Merkel and ends with “copious quantities of claret.” Listen to Jonah and Niall — mostly Niall, of the Mellifluous Voice — speak in tongues, lament the destruction of critical thinking in universities, and sneak in a jab at Woodrow Wilson [dun dun dun].
Show Notes:
-Angela Merkel on “the toughest situation” in Europe’s history
-Communities of fate, coined by our grave German friends
-The New Republic’s contest for the most boring headline
-Rescuing the nation-state, commentary by Alan S. Milward
-Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
-The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations, by Paul Kennedy
-Too many educated men, by Boyle
-NBER paper on how more people actually stayed home during the protests
-Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
-Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson
-Piece by Niall and Eyck Freymann
-Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism, by Derrick Bell
-For fun, the Yale Course Catalog, which Jonah perused a few years ago
-ExpressVPN.com/Remnant for 3 months free off a year-long plan
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