Greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast which is a

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toppings. Today's episode is brought to you by none other than Zippercruder, Ernest, and

Dorr dash. Look at that. Yowza three sponsors this week. We'll hear more about them in a little bit

but here's what I wanted to do today. There's this guy who wrote this really interesting piece for

national affairs and you've all live in who's basically the Jewish Yoda of what's left of the

American right. Spoke extremely highly of him and so I read the piece and I was really intrigued

by it and I wrote a g file about it and I wanted to do a political theory polusa thing and one of

the reasons why I wanted to do it today was that I'm kind of sick of talking about Trump and the

rank-punner true stuff so that we're going to do is a large, largely Trump-free episode. I can't

promise that the phrase Trump card or whatever might sneak in at some point but this is pure

ticket right in my veins, wonk fest stuff and if you want to go hear about the impeachment things

and all of that there are plenty of podcasts out there for you this week I am sure. So

Daniel Burns, welcome to the Remnant Podcast. Great to have you. Thanks so much for having me, John.

So you are a University of Dallas political scientist? Correct, yeah. I got tenure last year and I

had a sabbatical last year at Catholic you and managed to extend my stay in DC by a year. I'm

an unpaid leave for government service right now and so you made it through the final trial by

combat for tenure. That's great. It was a little blood spilled as could be managed.

So and your specialty is political history of political thought? Okay, I mostly do. I mean

my doctoral dissertation was on St. Augustine's political thought but I've written on lock Thomas

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