Last Branch Standing | Interview: Sarah Isgur

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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It’s here! Though scurrilous critics have long slandered Sarah Isgur as a one-trick pony and partisan hack, her friend Jonah Goldberg has stood with her through thick and thin. Now, with the publication of Sarah’s new book, Last Branch Standing, Jonah’s unflagging faithfulness has been vindicated. Join Jonah and Sarah as they discuss the great judicial issues of our day, including the anatomy riots, textualism vs. originalism, Sarah’s novel breakdown of the court, Buckley particles, big-case criteria, Clarence Thomas, Tom Brady’s underwear, the unbearable lightness of precedent, and fun facts about every justice.Show Notes:—Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court—Advisory Opinions Podcast—Lindsay Chervinsky Remnant—Remnant about Max Weber—Tom Brady on SNL—Most recent AO episodeThe 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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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can you digger?
0:27.7	Greetings, dear listeners.
0:29.2	This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast.
0:31.0	Brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:33.0	I am talking like Joe Zuzu very fast because I am so excited to have fan favorite, dear friend,
0:40.8	colleague and legal guru, Sarah Isger of advisory opinions, fame, and chief Puba over at Skotas
0:50.6	blog. And one of my favorite people in the world. I've been waiting a long time to ask this
0:56.3	traditional question of authors. Sarah, what's your book about? What isn't it about? Love, Life, War.
1:05.4	It's really like a Tolstoy novel in a lot of ways. Really, I wrote this book for like me either before or during
1:15.4	law school, right? Because I went to law school. I don't know if I've told you the story. I went to the
1:22.0	hill right after I graduated college and I got fired six weeks later for not making coffee, which was either a
1:28.4	great stand for feminism or deeply obnoxious behavior for a 21-year-old who was the junior
1:33.7	person in the office, I'll let you decide. The answer is both. Yeah, I was about to say why not both?
1:40.0	So the movie Legally Blonde had come out and I thought with my very mature frontal lobes, if I had a Harvard law degree, like what, it's hard, I wouldn't get fired from this job, which is sort of, I cannot tell you how much forest I was missing for the trees in that thought in my head. But I didn't know anything. I don't know if I
2:03.0	could have named any Supreme Court justices at that point. Since we've done this podcast, a skip
2:07.6	ahead, I get these emails all the time that are like, hey, I just want like a primer on the Supreme
2:12.5	Court to like be able to understand your podcast better or to like sort of catch up on you know the supreme court like
2:18.7	a base level and there wasn't really a book about that there's awesome histories of the supreme court
2:24.6	there's you know news articles about the supreme court anyway so i wrote a book the idea being
2:29.5	this is kind of all you need if you want to tune into advisory opinions or go to law school or think
2:35.9	about whether you want to go to law school or your kids going to law school and you want to be able to,
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