The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is infamous for throwing around his feminist credentials, but today he comes face-to-face with the real deal. Helen Lewis joins the show to put an end Jonah’s performative feminism and to talk about the feminization thesis, Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens, right-wing women, based rituals, shibboleths, feminist rhetoric, weird Oregon cheese, protests as carnival, Handmaid’s Tale cosplay, abortion, institutional drift, male/female differences, and parenthood.

Show Notes:

—⁠Helen in The Atlantic “The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet”⁠

—⁠Atlantic piece about gambling⁠

—⁠The Wilson/Hitchens book for which Jonah wrote the forward⁠

—⁠Helen’s book: Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism⁠

—⁠Triggernometry Pod - Adam Carolla Unfiltered on Immigration, Activism and Women⁠

—⁠Richard Hanania: ”The Based Ritual”⁠

—⁠Helen’s disposed European royals article⁠

—⁠Helen Andrews: “The Great Feminization”⁠

—⁠Hannah Rosin: The End of Men⁠

—⁠Helen interviews Jordan Peterson⁠

—⁠Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing⁠

—⁠The War Against Boys⁠

—⁠Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel⁠

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Coming at you from his new digs in the AEI annex (which is where they hide the bodies), Jonah Goldberg is Twitter-brained and ready to ruminate. After kicking off with some recent SCOTUS decisions and whacky historical facts, Jonah jumps into the Nick Kristof New York Times story, moral equivalence arguments, Iran, Trumpometry, impeachment, presidential misconduct, corruption, Venezuela as the 51st state, and The Great Canadian Annexation.

Show Notes:

—NPR interview 

—This week’s LA Times column

—Friday’s Dispod

—Nick Kristof NYT piece

—Commentary Podcast on the Kristof piece

—Ask Haviv Anything on the Kristof piece

—WSJ on Kristof piece

—Wars of Choice Commentary Pod

—Noah Rothman Remnant

—Jonah and Charlie Cooke on annexing Canada

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After beating Noah Rothman senseless with a stick for months in abstentia, Jonah Goldberg has finally agreed to a fair, gentlemanly cage fight here at Remnant MMA. After talking about Noah’s new book on left-wing violence (which also discusses right-wing violence), Jonah and Noah work through their disagreements on the war in Iran.

Show Notes:—Noah’s book: Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America—Noah’s previous book: The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun—Commentary: “A Clockwork Blue: How the Left Has Come to Excuse Away and Embrace Political Violence”—Commentary: “The Worst Study Ever?”

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Jonah Goldberg, weary of the grind, needs some R&R. Not being much of a beach man and finding ping pong boring, he turns to the one activity which puts the pep back in his step and color in his cheeks: day drinking. Wait … checks notes … rather, Jonah turns to his other favorite recreation: talking about conservatism.

Today Jonah’s partner in crime is political scientist and notorious conservatism nerd George Hawley. Join this dynamic duo as they dive into the meaning of “right” and “left,” the many new rights, populist tension, the cult of unity, the progressive era, socialism, identity politics on the right, ethnic politics, antisemitism, Russell Kirk, the horseshoe theory, me-too Republicans, and conservatism as ideology and its origins.

Show Notes:—George Hawley in The Dispatch: “The Enduring Lessons of Fusionism”—Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism—Samuel Huntington: “Conservatism as an Ideology”—David Schoenbaum: Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939—Jonah’s first book: Liberal Fascism—Hawley: Conservatism in a Divided America: The Right and Identity Politics—Charlie Cooke Remnant—George Nash: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945—Matthew Continetti: The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

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After reading a mildly depressing script handed him by the suits in the Dispatch C-suite, Jonah Goldberg rallies to take a bludgeon to democratic economic illiteracy. Along the way, he ruminates on the Indiana primaries, RINOs, Trump as a caricature, Rubio vs. Vance, sycophant tryouts, AOC’s voice, California’s gubernatorial race, billionaires earning their money, Napoleon, liberalism’s definition, and Iran.

Show Notes:—How to Access Your Members-Only Remnant Feed—Friday’s Dispod—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West—AOC on billionaires—Klein and Thompson: Abundance—Last week’s Ruminant on Hegel—Remnant with Adrian Wooldridge—Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

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