The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The New Right’s Thin Gruel | Ruminant

With those on the new right reluctant to say “uncle” after the Republicans’ midterm beatdown, it’s left to Jonah Goldberg to rub some salt in their wounds. Tune in as Jon

The Dispatch Moment | Interview: Steve Hayes

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 annua

How to Teach the Kids Division of Labor | Interview: Jeanna Smialek 

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 Smial

Survey the Wreckage | Ruminant

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

You Are Insufficiently Grateful for Modernity | Interview: Chelsea Follett

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

Build More Houses, Have More Kids | Interview: Tim Carney

Friend-of-The Remnant and notorious papist Tim Carney joins Jonah Goldberg to pontificate about midterm projections, party-affiliation soul searching, flipping the Senate

Of Friends and Enemies | Ruminant

Just days away from election week (or, as Jonah Goldberg likes to call it, “Hell”), we at The Remnant thought it wise to explore some more eggheady topics. Tune in to hea

What’s Wrong with France? | Interview: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Jonah Goldberg convenes with Thomas Chatterton Williams to dissect and diagnose the problems plaguing America’s oldest ally, France. Tune in as Thomas and Jonah discuss F

A Leader Doth Not a Statesman Make | Interview: Steven B. Smith

We here at The Remnant tend to evaluate statesmen according to the Lincoln-Wilson spectrum: The good ones are more like Abraham Lincoln, and the bad ones are more like Wo

Innuendoctober | Ruminant

Let’s be honest: If you’re not getting canceled every couple of days, are you even living? We don’t think so. We’re T minus 10 days until the midterms, and Jonah Goldberg

Economics 101, Live From Tulsa! | Interview: Douglas Holtz-Eakin 

It may disappoint frequent Remnant listeners to learn that most episodes are not recorded in a speakeasy. In fact, recording a Remnant is one of the few occasions that ca

A Modest Defense of Lulu Lenin | Interview: Tyler Austin Harper

Conventional wisdom will tell you to be well rested and sober before an interview to ensure peak performance. Jonah Goldberg, however, discovered long ago that he’s at hi

Our Populist Hissy Fit Needs to Stop | Ruminant

Dear listener: There are few places Jonah Goldberg hates more than O’Hare International Airport. Yet, in a sad irony, he has spent a significant percentage of his life si

What’s Wrong With Kids These Days? | Interview: Daniel A. Cox

Old men griping about the new generation is an old, venerable tradition, and Jonah Goldberg can grouse with the best of them. Unlike the other old men, however, Jonah get

The Tumultuous, Remarkable Middle East | Interview: Simon Sebag Montefiore

While The Remnant has played host to many remarkable historians over the years, few have taken us on a more incredible ride than Simon Sebag Montefiore. As such, we’re pr

Modernity’s Big Bang | Ruminant

Happy Saddam Saturday! Just kidding, we don’t do that kinda thing around here. But you know who does? That’s right, Jack Posobiec and his fellow alt-right goons. And whil

‘Friendship on the Knife’s Edge’ | Interview: Roger Berkowitz

Notorious misanthrope Jonah Goldberg is skeptical of the power of friendship in politics. Winning him over will be no easy task, but if anyone is up to the job, it’s frie

The Death of Homo Economicus | Interview: Nick Eberstadt

While AEI is filled with a lot of smart nerds, a select few have earned the Jonah Goldberg title of “great sage.” Nick Eberstadt is one of these sages, and he joins today

Nixon Was Wrong | Ruminant

On today’s Ruminant Jonah makes his old man proud by holding forth on the new right’s attempted rehabilitation of Richard Nixon. Along the way, he also hits on dog movies

The Scientific Republic | Interview: Tony Mills

Dear listeners: For years, you’ve been asking us to get Bill Nye the Science Guy on The Remnant, and we have heard you. Today, we are pleased to present … Wait, what? Oh,