His head all aswirl with yet-to-be-released Remnants, Jonah Goldberg moseys on down to the swamp for a swim with the punditry alligators. Jonah covers the Indiana redistricting that was not, gunboat diplomacy, nonexistent mustard-gas whores, evil AI, amending the Constitution, and the d-bag of the year.

Shownotes:
—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
—The Arena with Kasie Hunt
—Dead metaphors G-File
—Cocaine Is Not Mustard Gas G-File
—A Man of Great Sideburns | Interview: James M. Bradley
—The Dispatch's Charles Hilu on Congress and trade
—Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism
—Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair
—Economist - “When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil”
—Yuval Levin's American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again
—Glenn Beck Interviews AI GEORGE WASHINGTON
—Scott Lincicome: “The $140,000 ‘Poverty Line’ Is Laughably Wrong, So Why Does It Feel Right?”

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On today’s episode, Jonah Goldberg is joined by James M. Bradley, the greatest living biographer of President Martin Van Buren. Together, they cover the institutionalization of the parties, the rise of Jacksonian populism, the early Free Soil Party, the Mexican-American War, the Revolutions of 1848, and the features and bugs of our modern party system.

Shownotes:
—Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician
—Kramer vs. the Van Buren Boys | Seinfeld

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The Remnant coup d’état continues as Kevin Williamson sits down with journalist Colin Woodard to talk about our country’s most deeply seated cultural divisions. Woodard and Williamson cover Texas, the Puritans, Appalachia, Donald Trump’s ethnonationalism, regional Covid-19 trends, and shifting party geography.

Shownotes:
—Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
—American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
—Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
—J.D. Vance’s Claremont speech
—Homeland Security “a heritage to be proud of” tweet
—Kevin on John Brown for The Dispatch
—The Pell Center Nationhood Lab
—“Nationhood Lab: The Story of America” report

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After doing public penance for his recent absences from The Remnant, Jonah Goldberg launches into the important issues of the day, tackling sandwiches, the Oregon coast, Mitt Romney’s alligator fakeness, the laws of war, and his own misanthropic tendencies.

Plus, get Jonah’s definition of the word ‘punditry’ and The Remnant’s Spotify stats.

Shownotes:
—Commentary podcast with Jesse Arm
—Charles Hilu Dispatch piece on tariffs
—The Problem with ‘They’ | Ruminant
—RealClearPolitics Podcast
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—Remnant with Sarah Isgur

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Aaron Maclean, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and host of the School of War podcast, joins guest host Steve Hayes to discuss the anxiety-inducing analysis of the types of people who make up Trump’s foreign policy coalition. Is there any room for old-school Republicans, or have isolationists completely taken over?

Show Notes:
–Angus MacLean – father, soldier, liberator
–TMD’s reporting on Pete Hegseth
–Nick Catoggio’s newsletter on Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel

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Captain Jonah Goldberg has invited Sarah Isgur aboard The Dispatch’s flagship podcast, HMS Remnant, to hatch a plot to populate The Lone Star State with Loxodonta. Along the way, they discuss porn, iPhones, the youth, Death by Lightning, Matthew Mcconaughey, and the insatiable Chinese lust for rhino horn.

Plus, a scandal-provoking announcement about The Remnant’s release schedule.

Shownotes:
—Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court
—Sarah’s Dispatch author page
—AO Podcast
—The Selfie Vote
—National Affairs
—The Public Interest archives
—IFS study on sexlessness
—Jonah: We’re Turning Japanese
—Sarah’s Dispatch Pod moment on porn
—Ron Bailey’s Reason page
—Dan McLaughlin review of Death by Lightening

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the Trump administration's prospective peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, why dogma is necessary in a society, and the most nationalistic holiday of the year.

Show notes:
—Jonah’s column on the peace deal
—Friday’s G-File

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Today on The Remnant Jonah Goldberg indulges two of his favorite hobbies: competing in TV nerdery with John Podhoretz (grand poohbah of Commentary) and bashing the Straussians. John and Jonah cover the Claremont Institute, the decline of TV and cinema, Death by Lightning, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Shownotes:
—Commentary Podcast
—GLoP Podcast
—Fritz Feld doing the ‘pop’
—Jonah’s Claremont Review of Books piece
—Bloom and Jaffa - Shakespeare’s Politics
—“The Flight 93 Election”
—The American Mind
—Gordon Wood’s address at AEI
—Jonah’s Nixon G-File
—Dear Mr. President: the Letters of Julia Sand | CEI Documentary
—Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

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Economist William Easterly makes his debut on The Remnant to talk with middle-aged nobody Jonah Goldberg about free trade, USAID, human agency, colonialism, and Chinese liberalization.

Shownotes:
—Easterly’s website
—Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
—Easterly’s recent paper touching on Lee Kuan Yew
—Excerpts from Edmund Burke’s speech on India
—Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

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His Curmudgeonship Jonah Goldberg is holding court to pontificate about the troubles in the land, and he isn’t wanting for material. Jonah covers his recent takes on Richard Nixon and the pardon power, as well as the Epstein files, tariffs, impeachment, and what awaits in 2028.Plus: Jonah’s Star Trek-laced takes on infinite energy, instant food generation, and the elimination of work.

We’re running a listener survey, which you can find at thedispatch.typeform.com/podcast

Shownotes:
—Dick Cheney’s funeral
—Wednesday G-File
—Charlie Cooke on repudiating past politicians
—Chris Rufo essay on J.D. Vance
—Most recent Remnant with Chris Stirewalt
—Advisory Opinions on disobeying illegal orders
—Jonah’s LA Times column on pardons
—Dispatch Podcast on Trump’s tariffs and foreign investment pledges
—“Has President Trump ‘Solved Six Wars in Six Months’?”
—Elon Musk on AI eliminating poverty
—The Morning Dispatch

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Mark Clifford, Hong Kong expert and biographer of Jimmy Lai, takes his stand on the floor of the House of Remnant to discuss Lai’s imprisonment, the future of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Han supremacy, COVID-19, and the future of the Chinese Communist Party.

We’re running a listener survey, which you can find at thedispatch.typeform.com/podcast.

Shownotes:
—The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic
—Mark’s website
—The Death of Stalin

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