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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Edmund Burke Was Not a Romantic | Interview: Yuval Levin

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Not since the Marquis de Lafayette’s triumphant 1824 tour of the United States has a return been more welcome than Yuval Levin’s to The Remnant. After greeting our patriot hero with laurels and kisses, Jonah Goldberg sets Yuval up for a philosophical tour de force, covering the president’s war powers, cultural and institutional change, education in republicanism, the effects of new technology on our Constitutional order, the Scottish Enlightenment, rationalism vs. reason, Hayek vs. Burke, and the new right in the post-Trump world. Show Notes:—Yuval’s book, American Covenant—AEI’s First Branch Society—Allen Guelzo on The Remnant—Register for LSU’s 2026 John Breaux Symposium 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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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.6

Thanks, dear listeners.

0:28.5

This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:31.9

I'm sorry for talking so fast, but I'm very excited to get to our next guest.

0:34.6

He's a fan favorite.

0:35.5

He's a favorite of mine.

0:36.9

I actually spend a big chunk of the weekend with him at the incredibly off the record World Forum Conference

0:43.6

in Sea Island, Georgia that AEI puts on. As listeners know, I'm not a big fan of compliments.

0:48.9

So we're not going to repeat any of the substance of this, but you've all of then gave very

0:53.2

generous introduction to my

0:55.0

annual, very strange speech at World Forum. And it was sufficiently and over generous that at one

1:03.6

point a former senator that will remain nameless just simply shouted something along the lines

1:08.5

of bring on Jonah to shut you allall up, which is the first time

1:11.8

I've ever heard anybody like deliberately interrupt youvall like that, never mind a senator.

1:17.0

So that was pretty cool.

1:18.0

Yuval is my, you know, as I often say, he's not only a handsome man, he's a powerful man.

1:23.3

He is my boss at the American Enterprise Institute.

1:25.4

He runs the, I always want to put the word political on it, the social, cultural, constitutional shop, right?

1:32.5

I didn't leave out anything at the American Enterprise Institute, author of many books.

1:36.6

Welcome to the remnant.

1:37.6

Thanks very much for having me, Jonah.

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