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Episode 13: Podcast Potpourri

Jonah goes guest-free in this week’s Remnant, allowing him to engage in some rank punditry about Roy Moore’s defeat in Alabama and answer listener questions. The show runs the gamut from veganism, best conservative books, and best Twitter accounts, to trade deficits, Al Gore’s inhuman presence, advice for motivating bright but lazy teenage boys, and … Continue reading Episode 13: Podcast Potpourri →

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Episode 12: Episode Behind Enemy Lines

In the latest Remnant, Jonah talks with Steve Hayward, currently a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley — and a conservative. They discuss how what conservatives can do to make more inroads into higher education, and why elite schools should welcome the effort. Other topics include Who was Leo Strauss? Are the East Coast-West … Continue reading Episode 12: Episode Behind Enemy Lines →

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Episode 11: Afraid of Trade?

As The Remnant enters double digits, Jonah journeys into the international marketplace, with Cato Institute trade scholar and trade lawyer Scott Lincicome as his guide. Jonah and Scott defend free trade, and try to answer its critics. Show Notes: Be sure to check out Donors Trust. Slideshow…boring…losing…consciousness… To give you some idea what Howard Hughes … Continue reading Episode 11: Afraid of Trade? →

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Episode 9: Arguing at the Right-Wing Thanksgiving Dinner Table

Jonah invites fellow conservative history geek Matt Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon to explore the past, present, and future of conservatism as an ideology and as a movement. They pick up heaping helpings of neoconservatism, paleoconservatism, libertarianism, and Reaganism en route to a dessert of denouncing Sonny Bunch. Show Notes: Subscribe to The Remnant … Continue reading Episode 9: Arguing at the Right-Wing Thanksgiving Dinner Table →

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Episode 8: Predators, Real And Imagined

Breaking away from the shackles of the guest-interview format, our host discourses on the sexual misconduct wave moving through Washington, and explains how it’s all Bill Clinton’s fault. If that doesn’t hook you, then stick around for the Bigfoot erotica at the end. Show Notes: Obama’s shellacking. Trump’s schlong moment. The Seinfeld episode where Jerry tried to return … Continue reading Episode 8: Predators, Real And Imagined →

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Episode 7: Micro-aggressed by the Dalai Lama

Joined this time by Vulcan extraordinaire (and National Review senior editor) Ramesh Ponnuru, our hangover-defying host travels to such far-flung worlds as the Virginia gubernatorial elections, the prospects for tax reform, and the history of neoconservatism. Show Notes: My debut appearance on The Editors podcast at NR. People willing themselves to live longer with the promise … Continue reading Episode 7: Micro-aggressed by the Dalai Lama →

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Episode 6: Important Questions

In this slightly profanity-laden episode of The Remnant, Andrew Ferguson fanboy Jonah Goldberg asks the vital questions of the day. What is human nature? Will the conservative movement endure? What is a martini? How horrible a boss is Steve Hayes? Show Notes: My badge of honor. Andrew Ferguson on Steven Pinker’s “auditory cheesecake” theory of … Continue reading Episode 6: Important Questions →

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Episode 5: Surviving the Apocalypse

Everything old is new again on the fifth episode of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg. Our intrepid host brings back recurring guest star Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) to talk sports, current events, and survivalism, and invites National Review staff writer David French to discuss the return of The Walking Dead and what do in the … Continue reading Episode 5: Surviving the Apocalypse →

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Episode 4: Chicken Wings, Cheese, and Politics

On the fourth episode of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, our intrepid host talks chicken wings, cheese, and politics with thoroughgoing Wisconsinite Steve Hayes, editor of the Weekly Standard. Stick around for the end as well, when Jonah responds to uh . . . ah . . . listener criticism. Show Notes: “Shut up,” he explained. … Continue reading Episode 4: Chicken Wings, Cheese, and Politics →

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Episode 3: Whatabout-ism

Remnant host Jonah Goldberg continues his quest to get comfortable with this strange medium. Back by popular demand is Senator Ben Sasse (R-Cornhuskers) to explain why we can’t have nice things. Jonah responds to listener feedback and also tells us what he thinks about “whatabout-ism.” He also spends maybe a little too much time talking … Continue reading Episode 3: Whatabout-ism →

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Episode 2: Why Can’t We Have Nice Things?

In the second episode of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, the host begins to gain his podcast sea legs with the help of the least famous famous person in D.C.: egghead extraordinaire Yuval Levin, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and National Affairs. Topics include: the role of institutions, what’s wrong with our politics, nationalism … Continue reading Episode 2: Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? →

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