Bright Lights, Bad City

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

As a young man, Jonah left his heart in San Francisco. But after today’s conversation with Remnant first-timer Michael Shellenberger, he probably won’t be going back for it any time soon. Michael joins the show for an exceedingly wonky discussion of his new book, San Fransicko, which explores how progressive policies are enabling an addiction and mental health crisis in America’s cities. Together, they explore the causes of urban decay and what conservatives can do to reverse the trend in places like New York and San Francisco. Tune in for ruminations on nuclear power, Nietzschean philosophy, and criminology, but stick around to hear Jonah and Michael compare notes on what it’s really like to be mugged by reality. Show Notes: - Michael’s Substack on cities, energy, and the environment - Michael’s new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities - Michael’s previous book, Apocalypse Never - Tom Wolfe’s “The Great Relearning” - San Fransicko reviewed in the New York Times - Madness in the Streets, by Rael Isaac and Virginia Armat - The Homeless, by Christopher Jencks - The Remnant with Shawn Bushway - Michael: “Why Wokeism is a Religion” - Woke Racism, by John McWhorter - John Dewey’s “universe with the lid off” - Paul Tillich’s definition of religion - Jonah on the case for nuclear power 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
0:27.5	Greetings to listeners is Jonah Goldberg hosted the Remnant High Pass brought to you by the dispatcher dispatch media
0:32.7	You know all that stuff
0:34.7	Give reviews say nice things check us out become a member of the dispatch
0:38.6	Be kind to your mother and small animals. So very excited about today's guest who I had to
0:46.2	Ditch at the last minute a couple like two weeks ago because of a scheduling conflict on my end
0:51.6	And he's been gracious enough to come back from the West Coast. So it's still early for him
0:56.0	we have
0:57.4	Michael Shellenberger who is
0:59.9	the author of several books and has interesting things and say on a whole wide range of things
1:05.6	But his latest book is really caused the stir it's San Fran Sico
1:10.6	Why progressives ruin cities? So we're gonna talk about that for a bit and maybe some other things as well Michael welcome to the Remnant
1:19.0	Hey, thanks for having me Jenna pleasure. So
1:24.5	Just a level set for people
1:27.0	You're not historically known as
1:29.5	As a resident of the right wing tribes, right? I mean
1:35.2	Some people have accused you of being on a journey, but we can get into that if you want but like you're an environment by
1:41.8	Vocation you're an environmental reporter, right? That was where you sort of got into a lot of this stuff
1:46.8	Yeah environmental activist journalist, but I also worked on what you might call social justice criminal justice issues in the late
1:54.5	1990s including for George Soros
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