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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ross Douthat takes his place in the Remnant five-timers club today, joining Jonah for a discussion of (what else?) the dysfunctional state of American politics. Unlike last time, however, the nudity is tasteful, the Exorcist references are sparse, and the tone is (slightly) more optimistic. Is the United States on the cusp of a new civil war, and what would that look like in practice? For that matter, why is Biden a less effective president than Bill Clinton? Can a case be made for mandatory voting? And is there anything worthwhile about Don’t Look Up? Show Notes: - Ross’ previous Remnant appearance - Ross: “Let’s Not Invent a Civil War” - Ross on the Remnant discussing The Decadent Society - Jonah’s latest G-File on Biden’s Georgia speech - David Brooks: “How the Bobos Broke America” - Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works - The Remnant with Yuval Levin - Jonah’s distaste for Don’t Look Up - Ross on why the movie needs a second cut - Eric Levitz dissects Don’t Look Up - The latest Dispatch Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:18.0	Hello
0:27.5	Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcasts, brought to you by this batch and this batch media
0:35.4	Today we have returning to
0:38.0	the Remnant for the fifth time though his gold jacket is
0:43.9	caught up in the supply chain crisis so we don't know when we'll get that to him is
0:50.8	one Ross
0:52.8	Gregory Douthet
0:55.1	I did not know until literally four seconds ago that his middle name was Gregory
1:00.4	Ross is a columnist for the New York Times. He's a film critic for National Review. He was in a bygone era
1:08.5	One of the youngins at N.R.
1:10.6	When I was there
1:12.6	I think even an intern for a while
1:15.8	He is written a bunch of really important and good books
1:22.6	The latest one is the deep places a memoir of illness and discovery
1:27.6	And before that there was the decadent society how we became the victims of our own success and
1:34.4	Before that was a
1:36.4	seething indictment of Pope Francis
1:39.6	was titled which I can't quite remember and
1:43.4	It's always great to have them back on so let's just get started. We have a hard
1:48.9	Hard hard out on this one so I'm gonna try to be crisper than normal and I don't mean the gene editing program
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