Breaking the Veil

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On the mend from his sudden bout of illness, Jonah approaches today’s Ruminant with his standard level of nerdy panache. After offering a few thoughts on how The Tyranny of Clichés holds up today, he commences a lengthy rant on why canceling student debt would be a serious moral and political blunder, before turning to Francis Fukuyama’s work on liberalism. What does the relationship between virtue and responsibility look like? When is grad school worthwhile? And is John Rawls one of history’s greatest monsters?

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:18.0	Hello
0:28.3	This is Jonathan Bulberg
0:35.2	First of all, let me just say thanks to everybody who
0:38.6	Wished me well made inquiries and thoughts and prayers and
0:42.2	All the rest I'm doing much better still not exactly clear what was going on. I think
0:50.2	Best guest right now is a typical bad a diverticulitis, but I've gone to the doctor and
0:56.8	Biotics yada yada yada don't want to get into it
1:00.4	But it's been a rough couple days
1:03.1	Kind of sucked at all time with my wife coming home
1:08.3	And
1:10.3	And it really bums me out that
1:15.8	The Fukuyama interview had to happen when I was just so out of it
1:21.1	I guess we'll get to that in a second
1:24.6	Oh the other thing so I haven't you know, so the Wednesday G file so the reason why we did the Wednesday G file thing which for people who don't
1:34.1	Subscribe or members
1:36.1	What I did was I
1:41.4	awoke from
1:43.6	my
1:44.8	Fevered slumber and
1:47.4	asked a guy to find a chapter in
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