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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s installment of The Ruminant, Jonah talks about all the things he says he doesn’t want to talk about. Digs are thrown at tariffs, the administrative state, popular fronts, and executive orders. The definitions of unity and democracy are debated as Jonah bushwhacks the path towards productive political debate. To close it all out, Jonah revisits the Juneteenth discourse and addresses his Soviet kerfuffle with Niall Ferguson. Show Notes:—Kevin Williamson for The Dispatch: An Economic Policy that’s Just a Little Bit Radical —Scott Lincicome for The Dispatch: Trump's Latest Tariff Idea is Dangerously Foolish —David French for Advisory Opinions on the administrative state —Suicide of the West —Charles Murray: By the People —Jonah’s piece on Juneteenth: American Passover —Niall Ferguson for The Free Press: We’re All Soviets Now —Jonah’s Rebuttal —Subscribe to Dispatch Faith 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, that's
0:05.0	a-o-o-o! Oh! Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:17.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you digger? G Post of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the
0:33.4	Dispatch and Dispatch Media. I gotta come up with a new intro. I just been
0:38.2	doing that from the beginning back when like it was cool to say
0:41.8	dispatch from Dispatch Media because these were new things and it's just it's now my sort of habit rather than anything planned so people have ideas for new ways to introduce this podcast. I'm all ears.
0:56.0	Of course I will hear almost I will hear disproportionately from people who say don't change your thing
1:00.4	because that is the nature of these sorts of things. It's like the
1:05.4	closing of the normal remnants with the no you won't this is a podcast thing I am convinced that like 90% of remnant
1:15.4	listeners don't care or know about that stupid gag but the people who listen all the way to the end do, and whenever I don't have
1:29.4	it or I talk about getting rid of it, they're the only ones I hear from because the other people are not motivated.
1:34.5	It's just a small example of selection bias, but this is a weird way to start a conversation.
1:39.1	So where to begin? So, yesterday, it's early in the morning on Friday.
1:45.0	I have a crazy busy day, and then next week is insane.
1:51.0	I already have arranged for Brother Stairwalt to sub for at least the first episode of the
2:00.3	remnant next week because I just got really complicated travel and
2:04.6	logistics stuff and I cannot make it work and we'll see about the second
2:09.5	episode and we are going to record a exciting live remnant at AEEI next Friday with AEEI
2:21.3	Remnant All Stars.
2:23.3	We're doing it for the Summer Honors Program there.
2:26.5	It's just one of the many perks the Youngans get,
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