Washington Examiner Executive Editor and author of Fear Your Future Phil Klein joins the Remnant to discuss his new book on how Baby Boomers have screwed over the Millennials. Shownotes –The Dispatch –nas.org/DINGO –Phil Klein of the Washington Examiner –Fear Your Future – Phil Klein –Paul Krugman against Monetary Monetary Theory –Calvinball –Lyman Stone’s AEI work on … Continue reading Episode 162: Millennials Are Screwed → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 26, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 13
Jonah invites AEI scholar and impeachment expert Gary Schmitt to discuss what impeachment actually is, what it’s for, and how to use it properly. Shownotes –Gary Schmitt –The Dispatch –“How the Framers thought about impeachment” – Gary Schmitt –“What does ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ mean?” – Joseph Bessette and Gary Schmitt –Federalist No. 65 –National … Continue reading Episode 161: The Gary Schmitt Impeachment Primer → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 20, 2019•51 min•Ep. 14
National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty makes yet another return to the Remnant to discuss the Democratic primary, impeachment, Star Wars, and more. Shownotes –MeetCircle.com/DINGO, enter DINGO at checkout –Mrs.Fields.com, PROMO code DINGO –NAS.org/DINGO –The Dispatch –National Review Jim Geraghty –National Review Editors’ Podcast –The Democrats’ diversity panic –Jim Geraghty on why Booker et al … Continue reading Episode 160: Pre-Christmas Geraghty → Learn more about your ad...
Dec 18, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 15
Jonah is joined by The Dispatch reporter Declan Garvey to discuss his trip to President Trump’s rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, reporting on Capitol Hill, the state of the Democratic primary, and their mutual love of The Mandalorian. Show Notes –The Dispatch –Declan Garvey –Battleground state polls –ZipRecruiter.com/dingo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 12, 2019•48 min•Ep. 16
Dispatch staffers David French and Sarah Isgur hijack the Remnant feed to debut their new podcast, Advisory Opinions, today focusing on the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 17
Jonah’s former National Review colleague and current AEI colleague Ramesh Ponnuru joins the Remnant to suss out what in the impeachment morass and the conservative internecine wars he does and doesn’t find highly illogical. Plus, the accent contest gets a surprise late entry. Shownotes –The Dispatch –How you can now subscribe to The Dispatch -Door … Continue reading Episode 158: Blessed By Ramesh → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 18
Jonah turns the tables on Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie, interviewing him about the states of conservatism, libertarianism, and the Republican Party. Shownotes –The Dispatch –mrsfields.com/DINGO –Part one of this podcast –“Rocket Man” as interpreted by William Shatner –“Star Trekkin'” – The Firm –Nick Gillespie on the freedom of cities –“Stuck” – Ron Bailey –Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy – … Continue reading Episode 157: Making Gillespie Dizzy → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Dec 05, 2019•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 19
Dispatch staff writer Sarah Isgur joins the Remnant to discuss cookies, the Deep State, Peloton, and more. Shownotes –The Dispatch –mrsfields.com/DINGO –Sarah Isgur –Molly Jong-Fast in the Daily Beast –The Jessica Gavora episode –The Dan Crenshaw episode –Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard –Is Administrative Law Unlawful – Charles Murray –By The People – Charles Murray Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 03, 2019•58 min•Ep. 20
AEI scholar and National Affairs editor Yuval Levin joins Jonah for an extended, Thanksgiving-appropriate discussion of gratitude and community. Shownotes –Donorstrust.org/DINGO –The Dispatch –Yuval Levin –The first Yuval Levin episode, and second-ever episode –Chesterton on gratitude –Suicide of the West – Jonah Goldberg –On Thanksgiving –National Affairs – Daniel Burns –The Daniel Burns episode –The End … Continue reading Episode 155: A Very Yuval Thanksgiving → Learn more about your ad choice...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 21
Jonah brings national security guru Eli Lake onto the Remnant to spit hot fire on the rise of China, the Ukraine mess, Russian meddling, the “Deep State,” and more. Plus, the winner of the accent contest is revealed. Shownotes –The Dispatch –Sleepnumber.com/DINGO –Eli Lake –On NPR Monday morning –Wired on Crowdstrike –Liberal Fascism – Jonah Goldberg … Continue reading Episode 154: Eli Lake of Fire → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 22
R Street Institute scholar Andy Smarick joins the Remnant to discuss Hayek, subsidiarity, post-liberalism, and more. And in the post-interview show, the Remnant Anglosphere accent contest enters a new stage. Shownotes –The Dispatch –meetcircle.com/DINGO, enter promo code DINGO –OTATrade.com/DINGO –Andy Smarick –Jean Yarbough’s review of the strikingly Teddy Rooseveltian book by a young Josh Hawley … Continue reading Episode 153: The Wild, the Innocent & the R Street Shuffle → Learn more abou...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 23
With the help of Daniel Burns of the University of Dallas, Jonah takes a break from punditry and tries to understand the ins and outs of the post-liberalism debate. Shownotes –The Dispatch –Ziprecruiter.org/DINGO –Earnest.com/DINGO -Door Dash app, promo code REMNANT –Daniel Burns –Daniel Burns in National Affairs –G-File on Daniel Burns –Suicide of the West – … Continue reading Episode 152: Among the Post-Liberals → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 24
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, once a Navy Seal, joins the Remnant for a discussion of conservatism, persuasion, and how to move forward in this political moment. (This is a recording of a live event at Texas A&M.) Shownotes –The Dispatch –MrsFields.com/DINGO –Dan Crenshaw –The most recent Continetti episode –Suicide of the West – Jonah Goldberg –Dan Crenshaw … Continue reading Episode 151: Jawing with Crenshaw → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 15, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 25
Now-AEI Fellow Matt Continetti returns to The Remnant for some high-minded philosophical discussion of conservatism and some low-minded chatting of the rank-punditry variety. Shownotes –The Dispatch –EthosLife.com/DINGO –OTATrade.com/DINGO –Matt Continetti’s first Remnant appearance –Sean Trende on the 2010s and the 1870s (and Niall Ferguson and Matt Continetti) –The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 – … Continue reading Episode 150: The Continetti Continuum → Learn more a...
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 26
Fox News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt joins the show as our emergency salami for punditry about the 2019 off-year elections and the impeachment debacle. Shownotes –The Dispatch -Download the Door Dash app, use promo code REMNANT –OTATrade.com/DINGO –Chris Stirewalt –Jonah’s books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 07, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 27
National Review editor Rich Lowry rejoins the Remnant to discuss–and debate–the virtues of nationalism, the subject of his new book, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free. Shownotes –DonorsTrust.org/DINGO –The Case for Nationalism – Rich Lowry –National Review: Editors podcast –The last time Rich and Jonah debated nationalism –The Yoram Hazony … Continue reading Episode 148: Rich Lowry’s Case for Nationalism → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...
Nov 05, 2019•58 min•Ep. 28
On a special Halloween episode, Jonah speculates on the deepest fears of some of the most prominent people in public life. Shownotes –The Dispatch –Ziprecruiter.com/DINGO –On Albert Jay Nock –Nock on himself –LA Times column from earlier this week –Washington Post fact-check on Joe Biden’s military history –The most recent David French episode –The gender-swapped … Continue reading Episode 147: Fear Is the Mind Killer → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 29
AEI law-talker guy Adam White returns to the Remnant to try to make sense of Democrats’ attempt to impeach President Trump. Shownotes –The Dispatch –Adam White –Adam White’s last episode –Adam White and Stuart Taylor on presidential oversight –Adam White on House oversight at the beginning of the year –Adam White on the collision of … Continue reading Episode 146: Impeachy Keen Democrats → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 29, 2019•55 min•Ep. 30
Cato Institute ‘prosperity expert’ Marian Tupy joins the Remnant for a much-needed dose of economic optimism, enumerating the ways in which we are indisputably better off materially nowadays. He and Jonah also attempt to figure out why a sort of social malaise persists in the world despite this. Shownotes –The Dispatch –OTATrade.com/DINGO –Marian Tupy of … Continue reading Episode 145: Don’t Worry, Be Happy → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 31
Now Senior Editor for The Dispatch, the (in)famous David French joins the Remnant to discuss the French-Ahmari wars, Trump’s impeachment, the Deep State, the flaws of Elizabeth Warren, Joker, and more. Shownotes –The Dispatch –Earnest.com/DINGO –David French responds to Sohrab Ahmari –The melee at CUA –Charles Kesler, David French, Sohrab Ahmari –What Is Conservatism? –Federalist … Continue reading Episode 144: The David French Experience → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 32
AEI Middle East expert Ken Pollack rejoins the Remnant to attempt to make sense of Trump’s decision with the Kurds and other aspects of U.S. policy of late. Shownotes –Go to The Dispatch –The last Ken Pollack episode –Ken Pollack –LA Times column on Trump winging it –On the Trump cult of personality –Unthinkable – Ken … Continue reading Episode 143: How Trump Demurred on the Kurds → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 17, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 33
A discursive Remnant sees Jonah muse on both the serious (Syria, impeachment), the whimsical (threats from aliens and kaiju, the inadequacy of Conan’s workout on the Wheel of Pain), and much in between, with the help of sidekick Jack. Shownotes – LA Times column on Syria –John Quincy Adams on (not) going abroad in search … Continue reading Episode 142: Searching For Monsters → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 34
Jonah brings Mo Eleithee, the founding Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and a former high-ranking employee for the Democratic National Committee, for a productive (!) and civil (!!) conversation between two reasonably disagreeing adults about politics (!!!). They discuss the 2020 Democratic primary, Trump’s re-election prospects, and how the … Continue reading Episode 141: The Big Mo → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 35
Jonah invites Steve Hayes back onto the Remnant to unveil The Dispatch, their long-teased new venture, of which Jonah is the editor-in-chief and Steve is the CEO. They also discuss the unfolding Ukraine drama and the recent news about the Kurds. Shownotes –Behold, The Dispatch! –More about The Dispatch in Axios –The Simpsons on brunch –More … Continue reading Episode 140: Dispatched! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 36
Recovering from a cold and a madcap schedule, Jonah does a little punditry and a lot of storytelling. Shownotes –Untuckit.com, promo code DINGO –Earnest.com/DINGO –Winston Churchill has nothing to hide –Jonah’s Ukraine rant –The Silurian Hypothesis –How Biden’s connection to the Trump-Ukraine scandal could help him –The most recent Ben Sasse episode –The Mike Gallagher … Continue reading Episode 139: Story Time with Jonah → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 03, 2019•57 min•Ep. 37
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Green Bay Packers) returns to The Remnant for its longest ever one-part episode (we think), dedicated (almost) entirely to “half-baked” ideas, such as buying Greenland (which Gallagher proposed to Jonah last year, making him a Greenland hipster), nuking non-threatening asteroids for practice and deterrence, instituting congressional barracks, and more. Shownotes –Ziprecruiter.com/DINGO –The … Continue reading Episode 138: Greenland Hipsters → Learn more about your ad choic...
Sep 26, 2019•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 38
Jonah attempts to outrace the news cycle by getting in his thoughts about the Ukraine-Trump-Biden-Whistleblower brouhaha, even as developments later in the day outpace a podcast recorded in the morning. Shownotes LA Times column on Trump and Ukraine Mocking Joe Biden, as early as 20011 Trump pressures Ukraine eight times – WSJ Ethoslife.com/DINGO The Ben … Continue reading Episode 137: Ukraine! → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 24, 2019•36 min•Ep. 39
Long-absent, and now foul-mouthed, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) returns to the Remnant to explain why Trump endorsed him, why he voted how he did on the wall, and why our media habits are destroying us. With a little bit of Corn Pop thrown in for good measure. Shownotes –Ben Sasse’s last appearance on the Remnant … Continue reading Episode 136: Censor the Senator → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 19, 2019•55 min•Ep. 40
Woman of many talents Mary Eberstadt joins the Remnant to discuss Primal Screams, her latest book, which advances a theory about the connection between family breakdown and the rise of modern identity politics. Shownotes -Download the Door Dash app, use promo code “REMNANT” –Suicide of the West – Jonah Goldberg –Primal Screams – Mary Eberstadt –Mary Eberstadt previews … Continue reading Episode 135: Primal Screams → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 41
AEI adjunct fellow Lyman Stone returns to the Remnant, and to America, to discuss family formation, fertility, climate change, and more. Shownotes –The first Lyman Stone episode –The first Ilya Shapiro episode, followed by another appearance three weeks later –Lyman Stone at AEI -Lyman Stone’s congressional testimony –The Birth Dearth – Ben Wattenberg -Giving the game … Continue reading Episode 134: Like a Lyman Stone → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 12, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 42
