Jonah and Kevin’s Excellent Adventure

Kevin Williamson is a man of mystery: he’s an “Eisenhower libertarian,” he’s been accused of ...

Published March 24, 2020

Kevin Williamson is a man of mystery: he’s an “Eisenhower libertarian,” he’s been accused of being a D.C. insider (he lives in Texas), and (most famously) he’s a former staff writer for The Atlantic even though they only gave him one byline before firing him. Life in Kevin’s Fortress of Solitude has stayed mostly the same – even in the midst of a pandemic. Lucky for us, that means he had time to talk to Jonah about his unique political perspective, the role of government in a crisis, and how his “libertoid” opinions help him solve those mysteries of his.

Show Notes:

–Kevin’s latest book, The Smallest Minority

–Kevin’s upcoming essay collection, Big White Ghetto

–The (massively underrated) Tyranny of Cliches

–Suicide of the West (now out in paperback!)

–Adhocracy, a favorite term of Jonah and Kevin’s

–Kevin’s The End is Near

–Kevin’s claim to being an “Eisenhower libertarian”

–Douglass North’s impenetrably brilliant Violence and Social Orders

–Obama’s second inaugural: “preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”

–The unfortunately-named philosophical paradox, “Buridan’s Ass”

–Cleta Mitchell, releasing works for consumption by the populist masses

–Kevin’s The Case Against Trump

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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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