The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

At the end of a long day, Jonah Goldberg lights a Montecristo and reflects on the passing of Norman Podhoretz, Megan McArdle’s weighty abortion article, the limits of ideas, originalism and Burkeanism, Trump’s egomania, and his pride in The Dispatch. Shownotes:—Tevi Troy on Norman Podhoretz—GLoP Culture Pod—“My Negro Problem—And Ours”—Friday’s Dispatch Pod—Megan McArdle’s article—Tuesday’s Dispatch Pod on Megan’s article—Suicide of the West—Jonah - “The Specter of McDonald’s”—Jonah - “Cocaine Is Not Mustard Gas”—MillionPodcasts.com—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right—Yarvin tweet—AO Pod - Burkeanism and the Administrative State—The Rest Is History—Law, Legislation and Liberty—Last weeks’ Ruminant—Excalibur—Dispatch Junto program The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Manhattan Institute’s Jesse Arm joins Jonah Goldberg to talk about the makeup of the new GOP, the future of the parties, 2028, and perception vs. reality in American politics. Shownotes:—Commentary Magazine Podcast with Jesse Arm—The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA—George Will at the Washington Post—Arm’s Interview with Richard Hanania—Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change—Arm on the Klein-Ganz interview—Trump grades his economy an ‘A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus'—Abigail Shrier - Manhattan Institute—Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo on Minnesota fraud—CBS News Presents: A Town Hall with Erika Kirk—Charlie Kirk: Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life—Remnant with Rahm Emanuel—Kevin Phillips: The Emerging Republican Majority—Ben Wattenberg: The Real Majority—Ruy Teixeira: The Emerging Democratic Majority⁠ The Remnant is a production of ⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠⁠click here⁠⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠⁠by clicking here⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah Goldberg invites Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor and ambassador to Japan, aboard The Remnant to talk about the culinary wonders of Japan, the need for a more centrist politics, income inequality, and Rahm’s case for banning social media for America’s youth. Shownotes:—Jessica Riedl on seizing billionaire wealth—Rahm in Politico on a youth social media ban—Ro Khanna on CNN talking about TikTok—Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

His head all aswirl with yet-to-be-released Remnants, Jonah Goldberg moseys on down to the swamp for a swim with the punditry alligators. Jonah covers the Indiana redistricting that was not, gunboat diplomacy, nonexistent mustard-gas whores, evil AI, amending the Constitution, and the d-bag of the year. Shownotes:—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right—The Arena with Kasie Hunt—Dead metaphors G-File—Cocaine Is Not Mustard Gas G-File—A Man of Great Sideburns | Interview: James M. Bradley—The Dispatch's Charles Hilu on Congress and trade—Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism—Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair—Economist - “When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil”—Yuval Levin's American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again—Glenn Beck Interviews AI GEORGE WASHINGTON—Scott Lincicome: “The $140,000 ‘Poverty Line’ Is Laughably Wrong, So Why Does It Feel Right?” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Jonah Goldberg is joined by James M. Bradley, the greatest living biographer of President Martin Van Buren. Together, they cover the institutionalization of the parties, the rise of Jacksonian populism, the early Free Soil Party, the Mexican-American War, the Revolutions of 1848, and the features and bugs of our modern party system. Shownotes:—Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician—Kramer vs. the Van Buren Boys | Seinfeld The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices