Jonah and Kevin's Excellent Adventure

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Kevin Williamson is a man of mystery: he’s an “Eisenhower libertarian,” he’s been accused of being a D.C. insider (he lives in Texas), and (most famously) he’s a former staff writer for The Atlantic even though they only gave him one byline before firing him. Life in Kevin’s Fortress of Solitude has stayed mostly the same - even in the midst of a pandemic. Lucky for us, that means he had time to talk to Jonah about his unique political perspective, the role of government in a crisis, and how his “libertoid” opinions help him solve those mysteries of his. Show Notes: -Kevin’s latest book, The Smallest Minority -Kevin’s upcoming essay collection, Big White Ghetto -The (massively underrated) Tyranny of Cliches -Suicide of the West (now out in paperback!) -Adhocracy, a favorite term of Jonah and Kevin’s -Kevin’s The End is Near -Kevin’s claim to being an “Eisenhower libertarian” -Douglass North’s impenetrably brilliant Violence and Social Orders -Obama’s second inaugural: “preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” -The unfortunately-named philosophical paradox, “Buridan’s Ass” -Cleta Mitchell, releasing works for consumption by the populist masses -Kevin’s The Case Against Trump -$25 credit from SaneBox

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast
0:29.4	in week whatever of it is of the plague years and I'm at the dispatch offices by
0:37.0	myself downtown Washington is super creepy right now though probably not as
0:44.5	creepy as downtown New York today's episode is brought to you by St. Box more
0:51.0	about them in a little bit and of course we are a production of the dispatch
0:55.3	and dispatch media go to the dispatch.com for all sorts of fantastic things and
1:00.9	to get a you know the journalistic equivalent of Gonga Gonga so today we have a
1:10.9	very special guest who we've been holding off for a very long time because we
1:15.7	wanted to have in the studio when he on his he walks the earth like cane and
1:21.7	every now and then he comes through Washington and people hide their
1:26.5	daughters and they're whiskey and but we figured since we may be quarantined for
1:31.8	the rest of our lives we should stop putting it off and so we have my friend
1:35.3	and former colleague Kevin Williams and Kevin Welco aboard. Hey you know I have to
1:40.9	ask you the question always just to ask people when they would have me on Fox
1:43.9	News which is who canceled. Well as point of fact you again you were like I so
1:54.6	what happened was Jim Pethacookas was supposed to come on and talk about the
1:57.4	economic gloom and nightmare and all the rest and then he had to honor a
2:01.6	commitment to go on of all things MSNBC and so I quickly went to my list of
2:07.7	people that we've been waiting to get on and you were the top of the list and so
2:11.5	but yes thank you for you know introducing a welcome note of awkwardness to
2:16.6	this guy. I've always kind of thought of myself as a poor man's Pethacookas anyway.
2:21.7	How well do you know Jim? Reason me well I think we've been on some panels and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Dispatch, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Dispatch and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.