The Right Side: Part 2

Jonah and Matt Continetti continue their tremendously nerdy adventure through the history of American conservatism ...

Published April 19, 2022

Jonah and Matt Continetti continue their tremendously nerdy adventure through the history of American conservatism today, taking us from the 1970s to the present. In a conversation tailor-made for holders of the Remnant bingo card, they discuss the Reagan Revolution, the Clinton years, the future of the conservative movement, and much more. Can the contemporary right hold off resurgent anti-Americanism? Could fascism happen here? And how many more times will Matt need to appear for Jonah to ask everything that’s on his mind?

Show Notes:

– Matt’s page at AEI

– The Right, available now

– Part 1 of Jonah and Matt’s shameless nerdfest

– Buckley’s The Unmaking of a Mayor

– Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative

– Milton and Rose Friedman’s Two Lucky People

– Kevin Phillips’ The Emerging Republican Majority

– John Patrick Diggins’ Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History

– Stephen F. Hayward’s The Age of Reagan

– Jonah: “Appetite for Power”

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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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