The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

We here at The Remnant are reluctant to invite low-brow media hacks like Steve Hayes on the show, but sometimes needs must. Steve joins Jonah Goldberg today for the annual State of The Dispatch podcast. Listen in to hear about Donald Trump’s legacy, inflation, Iran, the midterms, Trump’s chiefs of staff, the GOP’s future, blaming advisers, why Steve hates discounts, the Trump era’s half-life, social media, ethical business practices, the pivot to video, and not going full Bulwark.

Show Notes:

—Kevin Williamson hosted Remnant

—Last State of The Dispatch

—Tuesday DisPod

—Conventional wisdom G-File

—Friday’s DisPod

—G-File - “I Was Right About the New Right”

—The Dispatch’s Founding Manifesto

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With Jonah Goldberg sleeping off his election-night hangover, Dispatch in-house grumbler Kevin Williamson takes the helm for today’s conversation with author Jeanna Smialek. The pair discuss Jeanna’s new book about the novelist and cover economist Maria Edgeworth, digging into political economy, Adam Smith, moral novels, women’s education, Harriet Martineau, early feminism, utilitarianism, value theory, Ireland, Little House on the Prairie, and the Great Potato Famine.

Show Notes:

—Jeanna Smialek - The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics

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After a couple minor appearances on CNN and about 1,823 tweets, Jonah Goldberg has returned from his Lone Star sojourn ready to ruminate on the week’s GOP bloodbath. Tune in for an absolute stemwinder on the youth vote, TPUSA, Texas, Kansas, the fallacy of red and blue America, potential Democratic overreach, Steven Miller, the DSA, class rhetoric, J.D. Vance, opinions of the median voter, explanations vs. excuses, and a vindication 11 years in the making.

Show Notes:

—Friday’s DisPod

—Conventional wisdom G-File

—The blue tsunami Editor’s Podcast

—Nick Catoggio’s Boiling Frogs on Vance

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No one ever accused Jonah Goldberg of nostalgic longing for the Middle Ages. Accordingly, he’s grown tired of the tradbros and hippies who claim that the premodern world was just better. In that vein, he welcomes the Cato Institute’s Chelsea Follett, author of The Grim Old Days. Listen in as Chelsea and Jonah discuss the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, life expectancy, working hours, grandparents, sanitation, animal welfare, health and wellness, childhood, environmentalism, smartphones, Rousseau’s “noble savage,” witches, and romanticization of the past.

Show Notes:

—Chelsea Follett - The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindustrial Past

—Corey Robin - The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

—Juliet B. Schor - The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure

—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West

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

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Friend-of-The Remnant and notorious papist Tim Carney joins Jonah Goldberg to pontificate about midterm projections, party-affiliation soul searching, flipping the Senate, the moral majority, the law as an educator, having kids, housing availability, universal daycare, socialism, and the Cheesecake Factory.

Show Notes:

—Dispatch Student Sponsorship

—Tim Carney: Family Unfriendly

—Carney: Alienated America

—Carney: The Big Ripoff

—Napoleon III Remnant

—Nick Eberstadt on The Remnant

—Roger Berkowitz on The Remnant

—Thomas Chatterton Williams on The Remnant

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