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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Conserving Liberalism | Interview: Cass Sunstein

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Jonah Goldberg is joined by Cass Sunstein, legal scholar and author of Manipulation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, What to Do About It, to define liberalism once and for all (it means being a mensch), explain the role of “nudging” in public policy, and defend the “abundance” agenda. Show Notes:—Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It 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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Greetings to your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

1:04.1

Our guest today is Cass Sunstein.

1:05.5

He's got a new and important book out called On Liberalism in Defense of Freedom.

1:09.7

I mentioned this later on in the episode

1:12.3

that I should have started with some definitional clarity, so I'm going to do it here.

1:16.5

When a lot of people hear the word liberal, they immediately think of it in a partisan way,

1:20.6

right? Liberal Democrats, those darn liberals, liberals are at it again, that kind of thing.

1:25.3

That's not primarily how we're talking about it. And as you'll hear,

1:29.4

we clarify it about 20 minutes in. We're talking about the liberalism of the 19th century, the 20th,

1:35.5

you know, the idea of liberalism as distinct from monarchy, as distinct from totalitarianism,

1:42.3

as distinct from statism, the liberalism of liberal arts,

1:46.5

and which I think is something that is kind of lost by both the left and the right these days,

1:50.9

is that the best versions of both the left and the right are in fact liberal because this is a

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