The Great Unmooring

The Remnant’s British invasion continues as Economist deputy editor Edward Carr joins to provide a ...

Published January 20, 2022

The Remnant’s British invasion continues as Economist deputy editor Edward Carr joins to provide a perspective on how the pandemic has affected nations beyond the United States. Together, he and Jonah examine how issues such as vaccine skepticism, excess deaths, and pandemic-related insanity vary between countries, all while kvetching vigorously about teachers’ unions and the politics of marmite. Can we trust China’s COVID statistics? Are things as weird in Russia and the U.K. as they are in America? And are we in the early stages of a new Roaring ‘20s?

Show Notes:

– England prepares to drop COVID restrictions

– Boris Johnson’s latest scandal

– “There’s no such thing as learning loss”

– Steven Brill: “The Rubber Room”

– The Remnant with Paul Bloom

– Jonah: “Fear and Loathing in the Time of COVID”

– Apollo’s Arrow, Nicholas Christakis’ book on pandemic madness

– The Remnant with Matt Ridley

– The Remnant with Michael Shellenberger

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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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