The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Now-AEI Fellow Matt Continetti returns to The Remnant for some high-minded philosophical discussion of conservatism and some low-minded chatting of the rank-punditry variety. Shownotes –The Dispatch  –EthosLife.com/DINGO –OTATrade.com/DINGO  –Matt Continetti’s first Remnant appearance –Sean Trende on the 2010s and the 1870s (and Niall Ferguson and Matt Continetti) –The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 – … Continue reading Episode 150: The Continetti Continuum → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt joins the show as our emergency salami for punditry about the 2019 off-year elections and the impeachment debacle. Shownotes –The Dispatch  -Download the Door Dash app, use promo code REMNANT –OTATrade.com/DINGO –Chris Stirewalt  –Jonah’s books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Review editor Rich Lowry rejoins the Remnant to discuss–and debate–the virtues of nationalism, the subject of his new book, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free. Shownotes –DonorsTrust.org/DINGO –The Case for Nationalism – Rich Lowry –National Review: Editors podcast  –The last time Rich and Jonah debated nationalism  –The Yoram Hazony … Continue reading Episode 148: Rich Lowry’s Case for Nationalism → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a special Halloween episode, Jonah speculates on the deepest fears of some of the most prominent people in public life. Shownotes –The Dispatch  –Ziprecruiter.com/DINGO  –On Albert Jay Nock  –Nock on himself  –LA Times column from earlier this week –Washington Post fact-check on Joe Biden’s military history –The most recent David French episode –The gender-swapped … Continue reading Episode 147: Fear Is the Mind Killer → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AEI law-talker guy Adam White returns to the Remnant to try to make sense of Democrats’ attempt to impeach President Trump. Shownotes –The Dispatch  –Adam White –Adam White’s last episode –Adam White and Stuart Taylor on presidential oversight –Adam White on House oversight at the beginning of the year –Adam White on the collision of … Continue reading Episode 146: Impeachy Keen Democrats → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cato Institute ‘prosperity expert’ Marian Tupy joins the Remnant for a much-needed dose of economic optimism, enumerating the ways in which we are indisputably better off materially nowadays. He and Jonah also attempt to figure out why a sort of social malaise persists in the world despite this. Shownotes –The Dispatch –OTATrade.com/DINGO –Marian Tupy of … Continue reading Episode 145: Don’t Worry, Be Happy → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now Senior Editor for The Dispatch, the (in)famous David French joins the Remnant to discuss the French-Ahmari wars, Trump’s impeachment, the Deep State, the flaws of Elizabeth Warren, Joker, and more. Shownotes –The Dispatch –Earnest.com/DINGO –David French responds to Sohrab Ahmari  –The melee at CUA –Charles Kesler, David French, Sohrab Ahmari –What Is Conservatism?  –Federalist … Continue reading Episode 144: The David French Experience → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AEI Middle East expert Ken Pollack rejoins the Remnant to attempt to make sense of Trump’s decision with the Kurds and other aspects of U.S. policy of late. Shownotes –Go to The Dispatch  –The last Ken Pollack episode –Ken Pollack  –LA Times column on Trump winging it –On the Trump cult of personality  –Unthinkable – Ken … Continue reading Episode 143: How Trump Demurred on the Kurds → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A discursive Remnant sees Jonah muse on both the serious (Syria, impeachment), the whimsical (threats from aliens and kaiju, the inadequacy of Conan’s workout on the Wheel of Pain), and much in between, with the help of sidekick Jack. Shownotes – LA Times column on Syria  –John Quincy Adams on (not) going abroad in search … Continue reading Episode 142: Searching For Monsters → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah brings Mo Eleithee, the founding Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and a former high-ranking employee for the Democratic National Committee, for a productive (!) and civil (!!) conversation between two reasonably disagreeing adults about politics (!!!). They discuss the 2020 Democratic primary, Trump’s re-election prospects, and how the … Continue reading Episode 141: The Big Mo → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices