The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
In “The Remnant," Jonah Goldberg enlists a “Cannonball Run”-style cast of stars, has-beens, and never-weres to address the most pressing issues of the day. Is America doomed? Has liberalism failed? And will mankind ever invent something better than ‘90s-era “Simpsons?” Mixing political history, pop culture, rank punditry, and shameless book-plugging, Goldberg and guests will have the kinds of conversations we wish they featured on TV. And the nudity will (almost) always be tasteful. Brace your bingo cards.
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April 24, 2025 • 86 mins
David Bahnsen, a fan favorite and friend of the pod, stops by the show to discuss his new book, Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life with Jonah Goldberg. Jonah and David cover the China question, U.S. reliability, and Kevin Hassett’s antics.
Show Notes:
—David’s book, Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life
—The Wall Street Journal: “Meet MAGA’s Favorite Communist”
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April 23, 2025 • 61 mins
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes make their Remnant debut to discuss their buzzy new book, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. Jonah Goldberg and the authors dig into the nitty-gritty of all three 2024 presidential bids, that debate, Kamala Harris’ ascension and missteps, and the story of Joe Biden’s decline.
Show Notes:
—Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
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April 19, 2025 • 75 mins
Jonah Goldberg spends ninety minutes plotting his transition to telethon moderation, lambasting the youth, and reminding the new GOP that you can’t pick and choose who gets universal rights. Plus: further ruminations on the bond market and the anniversary of the shot heard ‘round the world.
Show Notes:
— The Fair Jessica for The Dispatch: ”Revenge of the Title IX Dads”
—Advisory Opinions on Humphrey’s Executor
—The Wall Street Jo...
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April 18, 2025 • 37 mins
Jonah Goldberg responds to Christopher Rufo and his fight to "to recapture the regime and entrench our ideas in the public sphere," using 20th-century Marxist Antonio Gramsci's ideas. This is a bonus Ruminant –– expect your regular Saturday Goldberg variation to arrive at the normal time.
Show Notes:
—Meet MAGA’s Favorite Communist
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April 17, 2025 • 89 mins
Jonah Goldberg is rolling like a stone through Ivy League speaking events and is holed up in New Haven to conduct an AMA with the one and only Chris Stirewalt. Topics range from marmot taxonomy, Tom Selleck’s career ethics, Maserati salesman attire, and of course, rank punditry galore.
Show Notes:
—Continue your education on The Gay Place
—Jonah for the Los Angeles Times: “Gov. Whitmer’s party should learn from what she did in the ...
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April 16, 2025 • 72 mins
Jonah Goldberg is joined by Adam Kirsch to discuss Kirsch’s new book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice. What does settler colonialism actually mean in the Israeli context? Where did the school of thought originate? And how can Israel move forward under the framework of settler colonialist ideology?
Show Notes:
—Order Adam’s new book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
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April 12, 2025 • 74 mins
For your Saturday listening pleasure, Jonah Goldberg ruminates upon the latest Dispatch editorial, the sibylian nature of Suicide of the West, the problems with planned economies, and the back-of-house responsibilities of the federal government.
Plus: dunce caps for the “deep state” and the font choices of the first Alien movie.
Show Notes:
—The latest Dispatch editorial: “Slouching Towards Tyranny”
—Yuval Levin: The Great Debate
T...
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April 10, 2025 • 58 mins
Jonah Goldberg knows many a public intellectual, but linguist extraordinaire John McWhorter is one of his favorites. John returns to the show to discuss his new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. Topics include: grammars of the elite, the imposition of language rules, the they-shaped elephant in the room, and the mystery behind the disappearance of “thou.”
Show Notes:
—Order John’s book, Pronoun Trouble: ...
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April 9, 2025 • 79 mins
Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute and a general tariff expert, took some time out of his very busy schedule to talk to Jonah Goldberg about Trump’s trade-deficit delusions,why reciprocal tariffs will harm the United States, and the likelihood of increased inflation as trade tensions rise.
Show Notes:
—Scott’s Capitolism newsletter for The Dispatch
—Scott’s column on trade deficits
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April 5, 2025 • 89 mins
Siri misogyny meets trade policy, while Howard Lutnick’s idiocy fuels debates on markets and democracy. Jonah Goldberg clamors for liberal democratic capitalism supremacy and says a prayer for the global economy, as public-choice theory explains our collective hypocrisy.
Show Notes:
—Worship at the church of Scott Lincicome
—Dominic Pino for National Review: “The Heritage Foundation Was One of Free Trade’s Strongest Supporters”
The...
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April 3, 2025 • 74 mins
Frustrated with never-ending interstate repairs and constant airline delays, Jonah Goldberg looks to the sky and wonders; Why does nothing work? Marc J. Dunkelman, fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, has the answers. Marc and Jonah discuss the origins and transformation of American progressive policy, the spirit of the NIMBYs, and a bold proclamation that we need even more institution...
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April 2, 2025 • 78 mins
Jonah Goldberg is joined by Luke Coffey, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and Ukraine expert extraordinaire, to discuss his recent visit to the region and the state of the Ukraine-Russia war. Luke and Jonah debate where Ukrainians stand after the infamous Oval Office debacle, the cracks in the Russian army, and the indispensable value of close European alliances—which seem to mean little to MAGA world.
Show Notes:
—Luke's sch...
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March 29, 2025 • 91 mins
Having exhausted his Jeffrey/Jonah Goldberg jokes on The Dispatch Podcast, Jonah Goldberg launches into an epic rant on the tyranny of intellectual mobs, the flaws of morally blind due process, and the emerging artificial intelligence anime art movement. Plus: long-view Signal-gate revelations and the superficial logic of the Trump administration’s tariff strategy.
Show Notes:
—The Maoist anime AI drawing in question
—Yuval Levin’s...
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March 27, 2025 • 69 mins
It’s fan-favorite week at Casa de Remnant.Jonah Goldberg is joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams, staff writer at The Atlantic and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss illiberalism on the right, dole out some sympathy for the most ardent defenders of wokeness, and dig into Thomas’ upcoming book, Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.
Show Notes:
—Thomas’ piece in The Atlantic:...
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March 26, 2025 • 78 mins
Not since Thomas Jefferson podcasting alone has a guest been so wise as Yuval Levin, who joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the recent trend of Lebowskian communication mishaps, the danger of obsessive abstraction in Trumpian times, and the promise of connecting with the median voter.
Show Notes:
—The Atlantic: "Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
—Yuval on "The Ezra Klein Show"
—Yoni Appelbaum on The Remnant
—N...
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March 22, 2025 • 98 mins
Join Jonah Goldberg on a journey up the Northeast Regional line as he ruminates upon the impeachment of federal judges, the enemy within, the world’s laziest Congress, and the chicken and the egg game for oligarchs and plutocrats. Plus: disturbing DOGE casualties and a greatest hits reel of Jonah’s analogies.
Show Notes:
—Jonah’s LA Times column from this week
—The New York Times: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Con...
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March 20, 2025 • 80 mins
Yoni Appelbaum, deputy executive editor of The Atlantic, makes his Remnant debut to discuss his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Jonah Goldberg and Yoni discuss America's unique social and geographic mobility, the tricky history of tenements, and the dirty laundry of zoning.
Show Notes:
—Order Yoni’s book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine ...
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March 19, 2025 • 76 mins
Clifford D. May, founder and director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, enters The Remnant multiverse with Jonah Goldberg to reevaluate the world stage and all its conflicts. Cliff and Jonah debate who’s leading the new Axis of Evil and dig into the growing trend of expansionist politics and the depressing lack of fact-based arguments in contemporary foreign policy.Show Notes:
—Listen to the "Foreign Policy" podcast
—Le...
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March 15, 2025 • 60 mins
An overserved and hungover Jonah Goldberg gets into arguments with ChatGPT, picks fights with free speech “martyrs,” and offers a unified theory of Trumpism, all in a day’s Ruminant.
Show Notes:
—Jim Geraghty for National Review: “Why the Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal is No Cause for Celebration”
—Jake Meador for The Dispatch: “The Perils of Positive Thinking”
—The Wednesday G-File in question
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March 13, 2025 • 52 mins
Jonah Goldberg has gone AWOL, and Kevin Williamson of Dispatch fame has risen to the task of Remnant hosting duties. Kevin is joined by Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg to discuss their new book, The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions. The trio covers crony capitalism, how businesses can succeed amid political chaos, and how family enterprises can survive the breakneck speed of social change....
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