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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

A Helping of Hegel and a Morsel of Marx

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Plus: Peruvian spiders.People go to Los Angeles for lots of reasons: fame, money, food, outstanding weather, love of the movies, hatred of themselves, etc. Jonah Goldberg, perhaps uniquely, goes to philosophize. After ruminating on his attendance at a super swanky film festival, Jonah gives a crash course on Hegel, Trump as a world-historical figure, the imperial Roman Republic, Marxism as a shibboleth, unpatriotic librarians, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Baptists and bootleggers, and Maine’s new Nazi-tattooed Democratic Senate nominee.Show Notes:—John B. Judis: “What Hegel Knew About Trump”—“The YOLO Presidency: Trump is focused on becoming one of history’s ‘great men.’”—Tyler Austin Harper Remnant—Jonah’s column on librarians and book bans—The End of History and the Last Man—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast—Thursday Commentary Podcast —Standing Athwart Hegel, Yelling ‘Stop!’ The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. 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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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.5

Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought

0:30.3

you by the dispatch and dispatch media.

0:32.7

Not that you can necessarily tell where you are, but I am in LA.

0:38.3

I'm here for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival, which is pretty cool.

0:45.1

I'm plagued with massive guilt for being here because we got so much stuff going on at home with the move.

0:53.5

And, you know, it's one of those things you

0:55.2

agree to way in advance. And then you like, when you get close, you're like, this is not

1:01.3

great timing. And also, I agreed to be out here longer than probably necessary, certainly longer

1:06.5

than my wife thinks is necessary. But like I locked into this stuff. And, and look, it's good to see, it's really great to see my daughter, all the rest. But anyway, I feel really bad because my wife is at home toiling away with animals and moving stuff. I'm a bad person. So the opening night was last night. You know, I didn't really know what to expect from all this stuff. And I still don't.

1:28.0

I haven't, you know, I'm speaking, but it's not like a huge, it's not like I'm giving a lecture or

1:33.4

anything. It's a short conversation about a face in a crowd, which I highly recommend everybody

1:38.7

watch if you haven't. You know, I've been here for a very short while and I've already heard

1:43.9

from several people

1:44.7

about how Helia Kazan is problematic because of his, his naming names during the McCarthy stuff.

1:53.4

I'm not going to get into that here.

1:55.3

I mean, I'm not going to get in here, the TCM thing, but like, Healy Gazazon is not a villain in my book.

2:01.8

He's a hero and one of America's best directors.

2:04.7

I took my daughter for the opening night thing.

2:07.8

I walked the quote unquote red carpet.

2:10.5

I say quote unquote because technically it was a green carpet, but it was one of those

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