Greetings dear listeners, this is another exciting edition of the Remnant Podcast.

I am freshly back from being trapped in Florida with my daughter because the snowstorms came in and left

the stuck there. While I was there, we can talk about this later if you like. I was stung by a

vicious green caterpillar that the pain has not completely gone away yet, but I'll just leave that

as a mystery for you people to wonder what that's all about, that it was not a euphemism. This is the,

I guess, 80th episode of the Remnant Podcast, not counting episode 11, which we don't talk about.

And it's interesting. So I was listening to the new Bullwork Podcast, Charlie Sykes,

new podcast over at the Bullwork and exciting new journal. And around 27 minutes in, maybe we can

get the audio. My colleague David French starts whining about how I stole the name, or I got to the

name, I claimed the name the Remnant First for this podcast. And well, why don't we listen to David

for a second? So do you feel irrelevant? You know, look, I don't really think about things in those

terms. I mean, I try to be faithful to the moment. What am I supposed to do as principally a

Christian secondarily, a person of specific conservative convictions in this moment? And I really,

I'm kind of mad at my colleague and friend, Jonah Goldberg, for taking the podcast name, the Remnant.

Because I love it. And I love it for some theological reasons.

Okay. So I think it's kind of interesting. It kind of reminded me that it was, it's an important

thing to remind listeners every now and then where the title of this podcast comes from. It is,

it is a reference to one of my favorite essays of all time in the history of conservatism and

libertarianism written by guy named Albert J. Knock called Isaiah's job. And it appeared in the 1936,

in 1936, in the Atlantic. And I won't summarize the entire thing. But the whole idea is that

it was, you know, inspired by the book of Isaiah. And I'm not going to summarize all that. But it's

this idea that at any given moment, there are a few people left, even in times of woe, who have

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