Cool Katz

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Back in the Remnant driver’s seat, Jonah invites newly minted AEI fellow Joshua Katz onto the program for a nerdtastic discussion of language and how free we are to use it. Inevitably, their conversation touches on Joshua’s departure from Princeton, cancel culture, and broader illiberalism in American life. But it also explores current issues in linguistics, how much we can really know about classical civilizations, and what “literally” actually means. Tune in to find out whether Socrates had it coming.

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0:00.0	Well, ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:21.9	I'm going to be on vacation, but family matters intruded as life sometimes does.
0:39.3	I want to thank Chris Starwald for subbing in for me more about that in a little bit.
0:43.7	Very excited.
0:44.7	We had this episode on the counter for quite a while, and I didn't want to scrub it just
0:49.8	because of drama, in part because he's a very impressive scholar.
0:54.9	He's also going to be shortly, if more or less, full-time colleague at the American Enterprise
1:00.1	Institute, and that will give me the opportunity to murder him because he went to Dalton,
1:04.8	which is the high school that it was known as the Highs of Scum and Villainy in New York
1:10.9	City, where we both grew up.
1:12.6	I'm, of course, referring to former.
1:16.1	Former?
1:17.1	Princeton professor?
1:18.1	Very former.
1:19.1	Yes.
1:20.1	I didn't know if that was the correct lingo.
1:22.2	Joshua, you can't find more sadgatives, but that will do.
1:26.1	So, Joshua Katz is a class assistant.
1:29.1	He's a linguist.
1:30.5	He wrote, I defecate you, Negatory.
1:33.9	He wrote his PhD dissertation on topics in Indo-European personal pronouns, which I gather from context
1:43.5	is a different conversation than the conversation about pronouns today.
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