Authoritarian Mental Gestures

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Ruminant, Jonah aims to set the record straight on a matter of international significance: Despite what the producers of American Crime Story would have you believe, he has never owned an oversized poster of Atlas Shrugged. Thankfully, this misunderstanding gives him an excuse to indulge in a nerdtastic exploration of the differences between objectivism and conservatism, the significance of religion to conservative belief, and the differences between conservatives and “men of the right.” There’s also a disquisition on social anxiety and Theodor Adorno’s idea of the “authoritarian personality,” as well as a rant on those who continue to minimize January 6. Plus, as a special treat for The Dispatch’s two-year anniversary, tune in to learn the intimate details of Jonah and Steve Hayes’ late night telephone conversations. Show Notes: -The Dispatch manifesto from two years ago -Today’s underwhelming job numbers -Whittaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged -The Remnant with George Will -George criticizes Whittaker Chambers -Al Felzenberg on George’s opposition to Spiro Agnew -Jonah ruminates on Richard Hofstadter -The Age of Reform, Hofstatder’s book on status anxiety -Hofstadter’s Social Darwinism in American Thought -The (underrated) Tyranny of Clichés -Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality -Sally Satel: “The Experts Have Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left” -Karen Stenner’s The Authoritarian Dynamic -The Remnant with Joe Uscinski -Bring the villain forward -Jonah’s latest Special Report appearance -The January 6 subpoena saga -Dinesh D’Souza’s evil tweet -Jonah and Hugh Hewitt debate the alt-right in 2016 -Jonah: “This Was Always the Plan” -Revelations from Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa -The Remnant with Scott Gottlieb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.2	Can I please have your attention?
0:18.2	Thank you, Jigga!
0:21.2	Cheers!
0:27.2	Please, dear listeners, this is John Goldberg,
0:29.2	host of the Remnant podcast,
0:30.2	brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:35.2	Today is our, what we're calling our official two-year anniversary,
0:39.2	because it was two years ago today,
0:42.2	that we posted our first thing,
0:46.2	which we call internally a manifesto,
0:48.2	and it wasn't super manifesto-y.
0:50.2	But it was sort of an expulation to folks
0:55.2	about what we were doing and why.
0:57.2	We'll put it in the show notes.
0:59.2	And, you know, I can talk about it a little bit.
1:01.2	I also talked about that at length with Steve Hayes.
1:05.2	Earlier this week, and should be going up,
1:08.2	I believe today,
1:10.2	for the Friday Dispatch podcast,
1:12.2	where we sort of did a year-and-review thing,
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