The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Happy Saddam Saturday! Just kidding, we don’t do that kinda thing around here. But you know who does? That’s right, Jack Posobiec and his fellow alt-right goons. And while today’s Ruminant features more than enough of such nonsense, Jonah Goldberg doesn’t leave the high-minded among you hanging. Tune in to hear about nationalism, the Middle East, the French Revolution, Yoram Hazony’s Israeli NatCon, socialism, J.D. Vance, Trump’s short hand, the death penalty, abortion, slavery, and Hegseth’s firing-squad spectacle.

Show Notes:

—Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

—Jonah’s America 250 essay for The Dispatch

—Jonah’s book, Liberal Fascism

—Jonah’s book, Suicide of the West

—John Podhoretz on Yoram Hazony’s scheme

—Jonah’s death-penalty column

—Hannah Arendt Remnant

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Notorious misanthrope Jonah Goldberg is skeptical of the power of friendship in politics. Winning him over will be no easy task, but if anyone is up to the job, it’s friend of the Remnant and Hannah Arendt scholar Roger Berkowitz. Listen in as Roger and Jonah duke it out over friends, enemies, Zionism, the Nazis, fear of the people, facts, truth in politics, Alexis de Tocqueville, Madisonianism, local governance, the distribution of power, and much more.

Show Notes:

—A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World

—Who was Hannah Arendt Remnant

—Jonah’s last book, Suicide of the West

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While AEI is filled with a lot of smart nerds, a select few have earned the Jonah Goldberg title of “great sage.” Nick Eberstadt is one of these sages, and he joins today for a banger of a Remnant on poverty, misery, social science, the economics of the family, Hungary’s pro-natal policy, the fertility crash, phones, generational stereotypes, technological adaptation, the entitlement problem, and North Korea. Put down the Tik Tok and listen up, kids.

Show Notes:

—Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution

—Men Without Work

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On today’s Ruminant Jonah makes his old man proud by holding forth on the new right’s attempted rehabilitation of Richard Nixon. Along the way, he also hits on dog movies, the problems of polling, the midterms, the red undertow, the death penalty, Sen. Eric Schmitt, and the uncertain future of the GOP.

Show Notes:

—Heart of the Beast trailer

—Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog Trailer trailer

—Roger Berkowitz: A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World

—Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column

—Jonah on Left, Right, and Center

—Kevin Williamson’s death penalty piece

—Friday’s DisPod

—Jonah’s Wednesday G-File

—Kendall: “The Two Majorities”

—Dan McLaughlin in National Review: “Nixon’s Not the One”

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Dear listeners: For years, you’ve been asking us to get Bill Nye the Science Guy on The Remnant, and we have heard you. Today, we are pleased to present … Wait, what? Oh, I see. Apologies, listeners, but we appear to have had a bit of a mix-up. I’m sorry to say that Bill Nye wasn’t available, and instead the booking agency has sent *checks notes* Tony Mills! While Tony is sadly unwilling to drop Mentos into a 2-liter bottle of soda and stand over it with his mouth open (yes, we did ask), he is absolutely willing to bring the heat on science, AI, and the doom of humanity. Listen in to hear Tony and Jonah Goldberg discuss science funding, the politicization of research, COVID-19, historical reactions to pandemics, germ theory, gatekeeping, algorithms, romanticism, and (P)doom.

Show Notes:

—Remnant wherein Jonah made erroneous comments about pandemics

—The American Enterprise Institute’s AI Ethics Council

—Jonah’s last book

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