The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

For nearly three decades, Jonah Goldberg has rightly abused Canada for its many crimes: its adoption of the metric system, slanderous contentions about bacon, and dubious claim to Machias Seal Island, to name a few. Recent events have put Jonah in a more conciliatory mood, however, and he has resolved to bring more of our northern neighbors on the show. 

Today’s token Canadian, Michael R.J. Bonner, joins The Remnant to talk about his recent book on liberalism. Michael and Jonah run the gamut, talking about Steven Pinkerism, liberalism’s virgin birth, Cold War liberalism, the Rawlsian turn, postliberal criticisms, subsidiarity, modern progressivism, John Stuart Mill, the religion of humanity, left-wing violence, third worldism, Justin Trudeau's lack of self-understanding, and the war in Iran. 

Show Notes:

—Michael R.J. Bonner - The Crisis of Liberalism: The Origin and Destiny of Freedom 

—Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

—Samuel Moyn - Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

—President Obama Delivers His Second Inaugural Address

—Noah Rothman Remnant

—Noah Rothman’s book

—National Affairs: “Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory”

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With the wife out of the house and the hounds egging him on, Jonah Goldberg is hyped up on 5-Hour Energy and ready to talk for four hours straight about 1930s isolationism. However, understanding that some of our dear listeners lack the constitution for such a strenuous journey, our talented sound editors have reduced Jonah’s rumination to a more digestible size. Join Jonah as he skips through America the Sandwich, Trump’s slush fund, impeachment, the control-f presidency, whataboutism, John T. Flynn, antisemitism, Charles Lindbergh, the women’s history museum, channel surfing, The Walking Dead, the broken windows theory, and the decline of late-night television. 

Show Notes:

—Sandwiches in Baltimore 

—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast

—AO’s first episode on the slush fund

—AO’s second episode on the slush fund

—Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column

—Jonah’s eulogy for his brother

—Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism

—Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism

—Jonah’s Flynn G-File

—The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

—Helen Lewis Remnant

—Jonah’s underrated second book

—Tyler Austin Harper Remnant

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For years, Jonah Goldberg’s enemies, acquaintances, and wife have accused him of being little more than a slightly advanced proboscis monkey. Today’s guest, author Jonathan Leaf, is here to prove them definitively wrong. Jonah and Jonathan explore how similar humans and apes actually are, while also touching on warlike animals, humans and the herd, chimp violence, the Jets, polygamy, language, hardwiring, Jane Goodall, and preferential homosexuality along the way. 

Show Notes:

—Jonathan Leaf - The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature

—James C. Scott - Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

—Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

—Robert Wright: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

—Atlantic piece - “The YOLO Presidency” 

—James Q. Wilson - The Moral Sense

—City Journal review of The Primate Myth

—L&L Review

—Ed West’s Substack review

—Washington Free Beacon review

—Religion and Liberty Online review

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Jonah Goldberg is infamous for throwing around his feminist credentials, but today he comes face-to-face with the real deal. Helen Lewis joins the show to put an end Jonah’s performative feminism and to talk about the feminization thesis, Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens, right-wing women, based rituals, shibboleths, feminist rhetoric, weird Oregon cheese, protests as carnival, Handmaid’s Tale cosplay, abortion, institutional drift, male/female differences, and parenthood.

Show Notes:

—⁠Helen in The Atlantic “The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet”⁠

—⁠Atlantic piece about gambling⁠

—⁠The Wilson/Hitchens book for which Jonah wrote the forward⁠

—⁠Helen’s book: Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism⁠

—⁠Triggernometry Pod - Adam Carolla Unfiltered on Immigration, Activism and Women⁠

—⁠Richard Hanania: ”The Based Ritual”⁠

—⁠Helen’s disposed European royals article⁠

—⁠Helen Andrews: “The Great Feminization”⁠

—⁠Hannah Rosin: The End of Men⁠

—⁠Helen interviews Jordan Peterson⁠

—⁠Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing⁠

—⁠The War Against Boys⁠

—⁠Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel⁠

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Coming at you from his new digs in the AEI annex (which is where they hide the bodies), Jonah Goldberg is Twitter-brained and ready to ruminate. After kicking off with some recent SCOTUS decisions and whacky historical facts, Jonah jumps into the Nick Kristof New York Times story, moral equivalence arguments, Iran, Trumpometry, impeachment, presidential misconduct, corruption, Venezuela as the 51st state, and The Great Canadian Annexation.

Show Notes:

—NPR interview 

—This week’s LA Times column

—Friday’s Dispod

—Nick Kristof NYT piece

—Commentary Podcast on the Kristof piece

—Ask Haviv Anything on the Kristof piece

—WSJ on Kristof piece

—Wars of Choice Commentary Pod

—Noah Rothman Remnant

—Jonah and Charlie Cooke on annexing Canada

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