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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Join Jonah Goldberg as he proves just how right he was about President Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing, unveils a novel spin on C.S. Lewis’ triple dilemma, and calls out Kevin Roberts for giving a pass to right-wing antisemites. Shownotes:—Advisory Opinions: Firing Squad vs. Suffocation—The Remnant with Mike Bird—The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America—The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right—Last week’s Ruminant—CNN write up of polling on East Wing demolition—The Remnant with Charles Murray—Trump’s “Biden FBI” Truth Social post—Today’s Morning Dispatch—“Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes”—The Kevin Roberts video—Nick Catoggio’s Boiling Frogs on Fuentes and Carlson—“The Irony of Bill Kristol”—Jonah’s LA Times column on dictators—Jonah’s G-File on the Helen Andrews piece—“We, Sharpie” 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 access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	I feel like I've been gone for a while, but it was really only about two and a half days.
1:06.5	I had a talk in Dallas.
1:09.3	It really wasn't a public thing. Otherwise, I would have told you guys about it.
1:12.6	We're going to do more public stuff for the dispatch. The Grand Rapids thing has sold out, which is nice, but I also buzzed me out that we have to turn anybody away.
1:21.6	You know, it was funny. I was away from my phone for a chunk of the day, you know, travel, that kind of thing. And at the end of the day,
1:30.5	the trending thing on Twitter was the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts, the president of heritage
1:38.6	heritage, complete weasily cowardice capitulation to Tucker and Nick Fuentes and the anti-Semites.
1:48.0	So I'll get back to that in a second.
1:50.0	And then just below it was my old friend Bill Crystal saying that if push came to shove, I guess I'd vote for Zoran Mondani.
1:57.0	I don't think the two things are equivalent, but they are equivalent in a sense of like fueling a bunch of a lot of my friends feelings of what the hell is going on.
2:06.6	Like, why are people losing their minds? What is happening to these institutions?
2:10.9	And I have so many thoughts about this that I'm going to wait a second and do some other light punditry as it comes to mind before we get into it so this is not some
2:24.2	podcast consultant thing about you know stay tuned for more kind of thing I just once I get
2:30.1	into it I fear I won't be able to stop so I'm just going to sort of lay it down here.
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