The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg The Dispatch

Jonah is joined by Robert Kagan—a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Rebellion: The Antiliberal Tradition That Is Tearing America Apart - Again—to debate Robert’s theory on the anti-liberal history of conservatism and why he thinks Trump is a logical product of the American right.
Show Notes:
—Robert’s profile at Brookings
—Robert’s new book
—Why the South Must Prevail
—Miles Taylor’s book, Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
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Jonah invites Sarah onto The Remnant to grill her on her sociopathic “subtweet,” debate the ethics of killing dogs, and peer into the minds of anti-Israeli student protesters. But for the main course, the two argue about Trump’s immunity case. Listeners’ discretion is advised.
Show Notes:
—Sarah's solo AO episode
—David's return to AO
—Korematsu v. United States
—Nick Catoggio's Boiling Frogs newsletter on Kristi Noem
—Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876
—Join The Dispatch for access to our exclusive Skiff feed
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Jonah begins by ruminating on the Supreme Court oral arguments for Donald Trump’s immunity case and explains why he doesn’t understand how people could be sympathetic towards the former president. He then turns to the Heritage Foundation’s spat with Erick Erickson before getting to the Columbia protests and Elon Musk’s surprisingly apt observation on the oppressor-oppressed paradigm.
Show Notes:
—Word of South festival
—Advisory Opinions on the oral arguments
—The Collision on the oral argument
—Dispatch Podcast roundtable
—Ukraine: The Latest with Jonah
—Erick Erickson’s article on free markets
—George Packer's piece in The Atlantic
—Elon Musk’s tweet
—Columbia student who said Zionists don’t deserve to live
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Audio doppelgänger Chris Stirewalt joins Jonah on today’s episode of The Remnant to venture through the polluted backwaters of media conglomerates and uncover a whole host of “whataboutism” garbage: the rise of antisemitism on campuses, the media bias in covering these protests, and the terrorist chants coming from the mouths of these students. The two also opine on the faces adorning a far-right fecal Mt. Rushmore, including the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. They discuss more serious matters as well, such as the current snapshot of poll numbers and whether or not Stormy Daniels is a porn “star” or just an actress.
Show notes:
—What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
—"What's the Matter with Kansas?" by William Allen White
—Chris Stirewalt's Remnant episode with Tyler Austin Harper
—Bloomberg: Biden Trails Trumps
—Chris' piece for The Dispatch on Nevada's poll numbers
—The Hill's election center
—Nikki Haley voters in Pennsylvania
—Gallup: Americans showing average enthusiasm for voting in 2024
—Jonah’s appearance on a CNN panel with Lulu Garcia-Navarro
—Students chant "Go back to Poland!"
—Piece on Mike Johnson in The Atlantic
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Jesse Singal makes his Remnant debut to discuss his piece for The Dispatch on the Cass Review and the problem with the current consensus about gender transition treatments for children. The two debate the question of social contagion and the difficulties in reporting on "The Science."
Show Notes:
—Jesse Singal's piece for The Dispatch
—Hannah Barnes on Blocked and Reported
—Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice Middle finger to Galileo
—Tics and TikTok
—Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now
—Coverage on the shooting of Jacob Blake
—Will Saletan's piece for Slate on GMOs
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After fending off the voices coming from inside his walls, Jonah begins today’s Ruminant by discussing the latest entry in the House Speakership saga and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incoherent foreign policy. He then turns to the recent pro-Palestinian protests and how their facing consequences is a sign of nature healing. Stick around for the usual intellectual history nerdery.
Show Notes:
—Boiling Frogs on Mike Johnson
—Dispatch Politics on Mike Johnson
—Wanderland on MTG’s appeasement and Neville Chamberlain
—Boiling Frogs on Joe Biden’s “Sister Souljah moment”
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—Activist threatening Bakersfield city council
—The Remnant with Nancy French
—Ukraine: The Latest
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