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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Cash and Character | Solo

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the FBI search of John Bolton’s home, the uselessness of political labels, and how the ghost of Joseph McCarthy and the Soviet Union still haunts us. Plus: More I-told-you-so’s from Liberal Fascism and Suicide of the West. Show Notes:—The Atlantic’s profile of Laura Loomer—James Kirchick on Tucker Carlson—Charles Fain Lehman on guaranteed income programs—Wednesday’s G-File—Fact check on Trump’s “six wars” claim 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?

0:27.4

Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:33.7

I am recording late for a solo pod.

0:36.9

It is 9.57 a.m. Friday, August 22nd.

0:42.1

It's late because I've been trying to do these more on Thursday evenings.

0:46.1

I've been trying to do them earlier on Friday mornings when I did it on Friday mornings.

0:49.6

But we had an important board call at 9 a.m. that I had to do.

0:55.8

And then there was this news that just broke within the last hour about John Bolton and his house being raided.

1:02.9

So that's what everyone's going to be talking about all weekend, at least here in Washington, D.C.

1:07.1

And I don't know much.

1:09.7

My wife was saying that apparently there is some document that he had, or Adam Kinsinger,

1:15.9

is saying that there was some document they had and that Bolton had been in negotiations

1:19.6

with the Justice Department or somebody for a long time about returning it for like over a year,

1:25.4

and then instead the administration pulled the trigger and did this.

1:30.0

We'll see.

1:30.9

We'll see what happened.

1:31.6

I, you know, I've known John Bolton for a long time in different capacities.

1:35.9

I wouldn't say we're buddies, but we get along.

1:38.4

I always have my disagreements with him, but I think he's a guy of serious integrity

1:41.9

and serious convictions.

1:43.6

And he's also like a

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