Do Not Despair

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After a long and draining week of speeches, fancy dinners, and finally acknowledging the existence of his intern, Jonah phones in the beginning of today’s Ruminant by simply reading through the stories in Friday’s Morning Dispatch. Luckily, things quickly pick up speed when Jonah turns to a wacky article by the mother of the recently disgraced CEO of FTX on why we should abandon the concept of personal responsibility. A lengthy philosophical discussion follows on the problems inherent in critical analysis, the necessity of pricing signals, and why bad ideas must be taken seriously. Following some thoughts on judicial activism and the future of the Federalist Society, Jonah wraps things up by discussing hope, optimism, and the nature of despair.

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0:00.0	Well, ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:26.4	Greene's deal listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host to the Remnant podcast brought to you
0:31.4	by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:35.6	It's Friday.
0:36.7	It was a long, long week.
0:42.3	I went to Tampa on Monday night because I had a speech Tuesday morning to the National
0:49.7	Association of Electrical Distributors.
0:52.4	You all know I'm huge in the electrical distribution community.
0:57.1	And it was kind of funny because I had talked to, you know, their guy literally on election
1:04.6	day the week earlier.
1:07.5	And we talked about what I would talk about and all this kind of stuff.
1:11.0	And we were working on the conventional wisdom that the Republicans would have somewhere
1:14.9	between a historically normal good night and something more or maybe a little less,
1:22.5	blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:23.7	And then instead we got the spectacle of the election.
1:31.0	And so I kind of had to wing it a little more than I would have liked because, you know,
1:37.3	it was just, it was all new.
1:39.0	Like I've been prepared to give a different talk until, you know, whatever.
1:44.3	But I think it went well.
1:47.0	Really great bunch of guys, some dispatch fans.
1:51.6	And I'm not just saying this because they paid me to give a talk, but like, you know,
1:58.5	I kind of dig those kinds of gigs because it's really interesting to see industries I know
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