A Fistful of Dust

Kevin Williamson, the Remnant’s cheeriest regular, is back for another voyage through the strange realm ...

Published March 24, 2022

Kevin Williamson, the Remnant’s cheeriest regular, is back for another voyage through the strange realm of contemporary America. A free society is messy, and life is all about contradictions, inconsistencies, and trade-offs. But this can be an uncomfortable truth for many to face. In a conversation that will send you scrambling for your bingo cards, Kevin and Jonah explore the problem with social homogeneity. They also touch on the weaknesses of autocratic regimes, realistic climate change solutions, and Kevin’s hatred of Ohio. Plus, tune in to hear Kevin give a rousing reading of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Show Notes:

– Kevin’s page at National Review

– Kevin: “Autocracy’s Fatal Flaws”

– Kevin: “Make Putin Pay”

– Hayek: “Why the Worst Get on Top”

– Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement

– Yuval Levin’s The Great Debate

– Kevin’s The Smallest Minority

– The Remnant with Brian Riedl

– Jonah and Deirdre McCloskey at the Cato Institute

– The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk

– The Remnant with Shadi Hamid

– Jonah: “Rise of the Underminers”

– Unintentional confession

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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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