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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

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🗓️ 27 June 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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After waking up in a trash pile under the Francis Scott Key Bridge (his favorite haunt), Jonah Goldberg has walked his dogs, stumbled to his American Enterprise Institute office, and is ready to talk shop. Today Jonah gets into the Hinckley Hilton, Washington police, “Kant,” being late, wokery, the art of canine flatulence expression, Darializa Avila Chevalier, weak parties, the evils of primaries, the free beer party, Iran, J.D. Vance beclowning himself, Richard Nixon, “Me Too Republicans,” and his own car. Show Notes: —The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 —92nd Street NY Dispod —Suicide of the West —Wednesday G-File —Nixon G-File —Ben Mankiewicz for The Dispatch’s The Next 250 —Dispatch Juntos The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.3	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host to the Remnant Podcasts, brought you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
1:04.0	It is Friday morning, a little before 9.
1:09.5	I had a late start this morning for all sorts of reasons. I have many things
1:15.6	in my cabesa. I would like to get out and I don't know if I'm going to be able to without
1:22.6	some one of those melon ballers, but I think I just still got to get up to speed here. So I will make words go now
1:29.4	and then hopefully get to a glide path or something or not. I don't know. What is it? Oscar says
1:37.3	when they're lip reading on the plane, the guy's on the tarmac. I fear much trouble in the fuselage Frederick. Oh, sorry, that wasn't Oscar. That was Felix and Oscar made fun of them. Anyway, you know, like when the audio guys ask you to test your microphone, they just ask you like, what do you have for breakfast? And you talk about that. I don't want to talk about that. But I'll talk about walking the dogs this morning. As many of you may I don't know. I don't know if you remember. I don't know if I said it. It doesn't really matter. Again, I promise I will start getting the neurons to work. The building I'm living in is right next to the Washington Hilton. Everyone in D.C. I know calls it the Hinkley Hilton, which is, you know, where Reagan was shot by Hinkley.
2:18.8	And so it's kind of fun.
2:20.7	I mean, there are all sorts of things going on with living in a one-bedroom apartment
2:25.0	with two prosnickety aged dogs and all that.
2:29.3	But one of the things that's sort of interesting is the people watching being next to the Hilton.
2:35.0	This Hilton is like where most, I don't want to say most because there's new stuff by the
2:40.1	convention center now, but historically it's one of the big convention hotels in D.C.
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