Human Nature and Potato Salad

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Many have sung songs of change, from Charles Bradley to David Bowie to Tupac Shakur. The pace of social and economic changes—and the way they make us feel—is the subject of constant debate. Jonah is joined on today’s episode by Tom Standage, a historian and the deputy editor of The Economist, to make the case that rapid change caused by innovation is nothing new in the annals of history. Jonah and Tom consider why man always jumps to doomsday when new technologies emerge, debate the merits of an organic diet, and discuss the storied history of brews and lager. Plus: the mythologization of the Medieval Age, a soliloquy to honor the historical lynchpin that is the potato, and the supernatural powers of a good cocktail. Show Notes: —Human Progress reviews “An Edible History of Humanity” —“Nexus,” Yuval Noah Harari —“A History of the World in 6 Glasses” —“An Edible History of Humanity” 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:19.2	Very excited about today's guest.
1:21.0	I saw a piece over at human progress.org.
1:25.0	Listen is probably remember I'm a big fan of those guys.
1:27.2	Regardless, I'm very excited to have Tom Standage here.
1:30.4	He's the deputy editor and headed digital strategy at the economist. He's our I think our second or third economist editor to come on board the remnant and he's a historian of anything
1:41.0	He's written an outrageous number of good books and he's a man of knows many things and a scholar of rabbit holes throughout time.
1:50.6	So Tom Standage, thank you for joining the remnant.
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