The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg, weary of the grind, needs some R&R. Not being much of a beach man and finding ping pong boring, he turns to the one activity which puts the pep back in his step and color in his cheeks: day drinking. Wait … checks notes … rather, Jonah turns to his other favorite recreation: talking about conservatism.

Today Jonah’s partner in crime is political scientist and notorious conservatism nerd George Hawley. Join this dynamic duo as they dive into the meaning of “right” and “left,” the many new rights, populist tension, the cult of unity, the progressive era, socialism, identity politics on the right, ethnic politics, antisemitism, Russell Kirk, the horseshoe theory, me-too Republicans, and conservatism as ideology and its origins.

Show Notes:—George Hawley in The Dispatch: “The Enduring Lessons of Fusionism”—Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism—Samuel Huntington: “Conservatism as an Ideology”—David Schoenbaum: Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939—Jonah’s first book: Liberal Fascism—Hawley: Conservatism in a Divided America: The Right and Identity Politics—Charlie Cooke Remnant—George Nash: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945—Matthew Continetti: The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After reading a mildly depressing script handed him by the suits in the Dispatch C-suite, Jonah Goldberg rallies to take a bludgeon to democratic economic illiteracy. Along the way, he ruminates on the Indiana primaries, RINOs, Trump as a caricature, Rubio vs. Vance, sycophant tryouts, AOC’s voice, California’s gubernatorial race, billionaires earning their money, Napoleon, liberalism’s definition, and Iran.

Show Notes:—How to Access Your Members-Only Remnant Feed—Friday’s Dispod—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West—AOC on billionaires—Klein and Thompson: Abundance—Last week’s Ruminant on Hegel—Remnant with Adrian Wooldridge—Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s Brit week here on The Remnant, and after starting off  with a crowd-pleaser (Charlie Cooke), Jonah Goldberg decided to follow up with someone new. Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, joins Jonah to talk about the meaning of liberalism, limiting principles, immigration, tolerance, individualism, non-Western liberalism, Big Tech, kids, public broadcasting, FDR, positive liberties, John Stuart Mill, and the transatlantic A\alliance.

Show Notes:—Adrian Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism—David Brooks: Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There—Daniel Burns in National Affairs: “Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory”—Larry Siedentop: Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism—Jonah’s last book: Suicide of the West—Hannah Arendt Remnant

The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In honor of King Charles’ visit to the United States, Jonah has invited his favorite Brit (by birth) to come on The Remnant for some knockdown, drag-out sparring over the unitary executive theory and the threat posed by illiberal conservatives. Along the way, Jonah and Charlie also discuss vaccines in Florida, gerrymandering, Clarence Thomas’ recent University of Texas speech, progressivism, classical liberalism, Donald Trump’s “mean tweets,” and court packing.

Show Notes:—Charlie’s last appearance on The Remnant—Sarah Isgur on The Charles C.W. Cooke Podcast—The Clarence Thomas Lecture at the University of Texas at Austin—The Editors Podcast—The Rest Is History—Britain in the 70s

The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plus: Peruvian spiders.People go to Los Angeles for lots of reasons: fame, money, food, outstanding weather, love of the movies, hatred of themselves, etc. Jonah Goldberg, perhaps uniquely, goes to philosophize. After ruminating on his attendance at a super swanky film festival, Jonah gives a crash course on Hegel, Trump as a world-historical figure, the imperial Roman Republic, Marxism as a shibboleth, unpatriotic librarians, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Baptists and bootleggers, and Maine’s new Nazi-tattooed Democratic Senate nominee.Show Notes:—John B. Judis: “What Hegel Knew About Trump”—“The YOLO Presidency: Trump is focused on becoming one of history’s ‘great men.’”—Tyler Austin Harper Remnant—Jonah’s column on librarians and book bans—The End of History and the Last Man—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast—Thursday Commentary Podcast

—Standing Athwart Hegel, Yelling ‘Stop!’

The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices