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Does our culture need to become more nationalistic? What about reorienting our society towards “the ...

Published March 5, 2020

Does our culture need to become more nationalistic? What about reorienting our society towards “the highest Good,” as defined by your religion of choice? Stephanie Slade, managing editor at Reason, doesn’t think so, but she brings a unique perspective that many other libertarians don’t: she’s also a practicing Catholic. In this episode, Stephanie explains how she balances these two commitments that, on the surface, seem at odds with one another. Jonah also picks a fight with her about drug ads on primetime television.

Show Notes:

–Stephanie’s piece for Reason on nationalism

–Stephanie’s piece on balancing her Catholicism and libertarianism

–Stephanie on the Roman Circus podcast

–The peak of the French-Ahmari Wars

–The Free State Project

–Free will in the Catechism

–Randolph Bourne on the “Health of the State”

–Jonah on Nick Gillespie’s Reason Interview

–Bellamy’s Children

–Daniel Burns on liberal practice versus liberal theory

–Yoram Hazony’s beef with classical liberalism

–Trump calling himself a nationalist

–Beer: just as important as the Epic of Gilgamesh

–Earnest.com/dingo

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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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