Don’t Fear the Future

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The future has a lot of enemies these days, and most of them seem to agree that progress is behind us while nothing but disaster lies ahead. Today, AEI’s Jim Pethokoukis is back on the Remnant to challenge that idea. His new book, The Conservative Futurist, makes the case for a risk-taking, future-oriented American society driven by technological change. But what would such a society look like in practice? How could it come into being? And what makes futurism and conservatism compatible? Show Notes: - Jim’s page at AEI - Jim’s book, The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised - Jim’s Substack, Faster, Please! - Jim’s Political Economy podcast - Jim’s previous Remnant appearance - Virginia Postrel’s The Future and Its Enemies - Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future - Half-Earth Socialism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You
0:17.2	Now there's a gentleman
0:19.2	Can I please have your attention?
0:30.0	Greetings, you're listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast,
0:33.4	brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. Very excited about today's guest.
0:38.8	Very excited about his new book. Very excited to be back at the microphone after
0:45.7	various travails. And very, very excited not to be talking about the the smooth
0:52.8	running of the House of Representatives. So today we have a friend of the
0:57.6	podcast, friend of mine, colleague of mine, A.I. Holder of the Dewitt Wallis Chair at
1:02.8	the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes about economic policy and writes
1:07.4	and edits the A.I. Ideas blog. And he's the host of the Political Economy
1:13.4	Podcast. And he's got a faster, please newsletter on Substack that everyone
1:17.4	should read. But the real news is he's got his book is finally out, which I have
1:21.8	blurbed approvingly, the conservative futurist, how to create the sci-fi world we were
1:30.4	promised. Jim Pethacukis, welcome back to the Remnant. Jonah, thank you so much for
1:36.9	having me back. I did not realize this was perhaps the first episode since your
1:41.2	cross-country journey. So I feel like they're special to be on. It was not the
1:46.3	first, but then I had to leave town again. And so it's all been chaos. Chris
1:50.3	Starwall sub for me. And so it's just cats and dogs as you can imagine.
1:55.3	Well, I'm glad you're here either way. Yeah, the the speakership race is in my
2:00.1	my human heart. So what as per tradition, the first question I have for you is,
2:07.3	what's your book about? It is about, I think the easy answer is it's about how to
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