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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Joscelyn ‘Round the Middle East

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Vital Interests author and national security extraordinaire Thomas Joscelyn makes his first Remnant appearance. With a healthy supply of Hayek references on hand, Jonah seems determined to outdo the wonkiness of Brian Riedl’s visit earlier this week. Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, China, and the meaning of necrocracy are all discussed peacefully by the pair, until a certain name is mentioned; If you thought Jonah’s contempt for Woodrow Wilson was unparalleled, just wait until you hear the disdain that overtakes Tom at the mere mention of Henry Kissinger. Show Notes: - Tom’s journal, Long War - Vital Interests at The Dispatch - Just in case you happen to know Siraj Haqqani - The history of the institutionalized form of al-Qaeda, the AQAP - Bin Laden’s files - Tom: “The Flawed Reasoning Behind Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal” - Jonah: “Biden Citing the Wrong Reasons for Afghanistan Withdrawal” - The Remnant with Bing West - Kissinger makes WWI metaphors in regards to China - Hitchens: “A necrocracy?” - The Remnant with Oriana Skylar Mastro - “The Longer Telegram,” by an anonymous official - Lin Wells’ memo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh

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Ladies and gentlemen

0:16.4

Can I please have your attention

0:18.4

Thank you

0:27.4

Greetings to your listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media

0:32.4

Please go to the dispatch.com to check out all our stuff and maybe become a paid member of the dispatch community

0:39.5

so I have a I'm a little bit of an apology to listeners because

0:44.0

Our next guest is a first timer and that is entirely my fault. He should have been on here a long time ago

0:52.2

but part of it was

0:56.4

In the early days of the Remnant we didn't do that much foreign policy stuff and then also in the

1:02.1

There's also the the usual

1:05.0

intramural

1:07.0

Clanish rivalries between various think tanks that sometimes enter into these things and then the real the major issue is that

1:17.3

Our guest today though he's a friend of mine. He's really Steve's favorite and kind of like Steve's

1:25.0

He's Steve's think tank pretty much and has been for I don't know like 10 years or something like that and

1:30.6

And it always just sort of felt weird inviting the you know Steve is just like this guy is like Steve's property and

1:40.2

But I've but he is also a contributor to this batch

1:43.9

And it was he's long overdue so I want to apologize to Tom Jocelyn our guest today and to listeners

1:50.8

He's one of the smartest most interesting people

1:53.4

Around on on all things national security and terror related. He's a senior fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracy and he the senior editor at long-ward journal

2:07.6

Tom welcome to the Remnant. Oh, thanks to having me Jonah

2:12.4

so

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