Elliot Williams returns to The Remnant in triumph to discuss his new book, Five Bullets. Jonah Goldberg and Elliot brave technical difficulties to discuss the Bernie Goetz case, the blackout of ‘77, Rupert Murdoch, Trump’s political origins, and the echoes of ‘80s New York today.

Shownotes:
—Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation
—Most recent appearance of Elliot Williams on The Remnant

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Ken Pollack, vice president for policy at the Middle East Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the reality of regime change in Iran, what’s next for the Iranian nuclear program, and the politics around taking Greenland.
The Agenda:
–Historical patterns of uprisings in Iran
–Is this different?
–It’s the economy, stupid!
–Potential military strategies
–Understanding the Iranian threat
–Iran’s nuclear program
–The shah’s complex legacy
–Greenland, now what?
Show Notes:
–Monday’s TMD on Iran
–The political theory that explains Trump's global power plays
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Jonah Goldberg starts this Ruminant off with a bang by defending his take on the ICE shooting, then jumping headfirst into his thoughts on Labor Department posts and Woodrow Wilson’s fascistic America. He also muses on his father’s defense of the Shah, takes on right- and left-wing antisemitism, and tries out a new metaphor for Donald Trump.
Plus, listeners will be treated to ... a confession.

Shownotes:
—Jonah’s take on the Minneapolis ICE shooting on The Dispatch Podcast
—Advisory Opinions on the ICE shooting
—Goldberg slams ‘grotesque and idiotic’ response by some in GOP to deadly ICE shooting
—Most recent Dispatch Podcast
—Mike Allen at Axios on new White House concern over immigration
—“There Will Be More Renee Goods” - Jeremiah Johnson at The Dispatch
—Jonah’s G-File on the Department of Labor
—Jonah’s book, Liberal Fascism
—Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
—The Remnant: John Adams Was Not an Originalist | Interview: Lindsay Chervinsky
—The Remnant: Patriots and Loyalists | Interview: Ken Burns
—Foer in The Atlantic: ‘MAGA’s Jewish Intellectuals Helped Create Their Own Predicament’
—Yoni Appelbaum on The Remnant
—Foer: ‘The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending’
—Eli Lake on The Commentary Podcast
—Mike Nelson in The Dispatch on America’s red lines

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In her debut appearance at Le Bistro Remnant, Rebecca Newberger-Goldstein serves up a philosophical Smörgåsbord for Jonah Goldberg, including the four forms of mattering, the distinction between humans and other animals, the brilliance and depression of William James, and the principle of entropy, all with a little bit of Spinoza sprinkled in.

Shownotes:
—The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
—Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
—36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
—Steven Pinker’s essay on entropy
—Jonah’s most recent book
—Dominion by Tom Holland
—Steven Pinker’s appearance on The Remnant
—Megan McArdle—“The Brother I Lost”

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Jonah Goldberg is joined by Ken Burns, the prolific American filmmaker behind documentaries on the Civil War and American Revolution. The two discuss the importance of historical narratives, why George Washington is so pivotal, and whether Jonah would have been a Loyalist or Patriot.

Show Notes:
—Washington Monthly's review of The American Revolution (2025)
—Jonah's Next 250 essay: "The American Revolution Was a Really Big Deal"

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the Trump administration's response to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the use of the word "regime," and where nationalism goes wrong.

Show Notes:
—Wednesday's G-File
—Friday's Dispatch Podcast

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Jonah Goldberg is joined by returning guest Matt Ridley, author of Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea. The two discuss the beauty of birds and the distinction between natural selection and sexual selection, how species evolve to adapt to city life, and the origins of the COVID-19 virus.
Show Notes:
—Matt's previous appearance on The Remnant

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In the second installment of The Remnant’s unofficial presidential-biographers series, Jonah Goldberg powwows with Lindsay Chervinsky about John Adams, the Alien and Sedition Acts, unwritten laws, the pardon power, and the centrality of the Continental Army to the development of American identity.

Plus, Jonah asks Lindsay about his favorite libertarian urban myth.

Shownotes:
—Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
—List of vice presidents of the United States
—Remnant on Martin Van Buren
—George Washington’s cover letter
—Jeffrey Rosen - The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
—General Orders, 4 July 1775

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's inauguration speech and the mayor's strange appeal to the "warmth of collectivism." He then reviews Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another and explains how the Minnesota fraud story is discrediting some mainstream journalists.

Show Notes:
—The Remnant with Chris Stirewalt

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Jonah Goldberg invites Nuke LaLoosh LARPer Chris Stirewalt to discuss the biggest political gaffes of 2025, debate whether House Speaker Mike Johnson is a human in a lizard suit or a lizard in a human suit, and name the most punchable faces from the past year.

Show Notes:
—Jonah's interview with Rahm Emmanuel

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Caving to popular demand for more talk about Straussians, Jonah Goldberg sits down with Laura Field to discuss the ideas driving the New Right. Follow Laura and Jonah as they fall down rabbit holes and explore digressions in the complicated story of 20th-century conservatism, the rise of MAGA, and the intellects behind Trumpism.

Shownotes:
—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
—Remnant on Straussians
—Project 2025
—“The Flight 93 Election”
—Michael Anton: “Harry V. Jaffa: An Appreciation”
—1776 Commission Report
—Yoram Hazony: The Virtue of Nationalism
—Herbert Croly: The Promise Of American Life
—Charles A. Reich: The Greening of America
—The 1619 Project
—Marco Rubio: “Industrial Policy, Right and Wrong”
—Patrick Deneen: Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
—The American Mind
—Richard Reinsch: “‘Furious Minds’ Review: The Road to MAGA”
—Jonah on Invasion of the Body Snatchers and MAGA converts
— Peter Schramm: “Born American, But in the Wrong Place”

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