The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg The Dispatch

Jonah picks a fight with the alts—both left and right—on this episode of TheRuminant, with a healthy dose of both-sides-are-wrong argumentation. Tune in for thoughts on Justice Samuel Alito’s flag-gate, President Joe Biden’s commencement speech at Morehouse College, and America’s proud (?) history of moral panics.
Show Notes:
—AO episode on Alito flag incident
—Biden’s Morehouse College commencement address
—Ken Pollack on The Remnant
—Countries recognizing a Palestinian state
—Michael Warren’s piece on the Mar-A-Lago raid
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Ken Pollack, a Remnant all-star and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah for an extended discussion on the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the race to be the supreme leader’s successor. The two also get into the various Iran appeasement campaigns, Biden’s approach to Israel, and the necessity of the United Nations.
Show Notes:
—Reuters reporting on the Ayatollah’s successor
—Ken’s profile at AEI
—Ken’s profile at Georgetown
—Ken’s most recent book, Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
—This week’s Dispatch Live
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Jonah invites Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, to discuss the ideal way to raise little barbarians—also known as human babies. The two weed through the metaphors of garden parenting vs. carpentry parenting and the need of being needed before making a small segue into caregiving policy ideas. (The government can’t love you, Jonah!)
Show Notes:
—Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel Prize speech
—Jonathan Haidt on The Remnant
—Tim Carney on The Remnant
—Sarah Hardy’s book on mothers
—Paul Bloom on The Remnant
—AEI’s social survey
—Alison Gopnik’s “Theory theory”
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Stranded on a highway, gazing into the smoggy horizon, Jonah contemplates plaintively social media's latest display of statistical illiteracy demonstrated by a proclaimed preference of many women to be stranded alone with a bear, rather than a man. If you were wondering why you all didn't receive a G-File today, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it.
Show Notes: 
—Nick Catoggio’s “Never Trump” piece
—Wednesday G-File
—Last week’s Dispatch Podcast
—Megan McArdle on man vs. bear
—Jean Twenge on The Remnant
—Jonathan Haidt on The Remnant
—Liberal Fascism
—Yesterday’s Dispatch Podcast
—The Remnant on prices
—Ghosted by Nancy French
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Get your bingo cards at the ready, because Jonah is joined by Ryan Bourne—a policy scholar at the Cato Institute and author of The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy—for a decisively wonky Remnant on all things prices. What are prices? Why doesn’t price fixing work? And what's up with the libertarians?
Show Notes:
—Ryan's new book The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy
—Ryan’s profile at Cato
—Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19
—Suicide of the West
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Voters weighing actual policy positions? A man can dream. No, it’ll be vibes—not issues—driving voters to the polls in November. Jonah invites Seth Masket, director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, on today’s episode of The Remnant to commiserate over the sorry status of the current American electorate, Sister Souljah strategies, and the lack of centrist Democrats.
Show Notes:
—Seth’s newsletter
—Why anti-Biden books aren't selling
—Seth's previous appearance on The Remnant
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