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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Mr. Popularity

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After providing an update on his absence this week, Jonah begins today’s Ruminant on a note of uncertainty: He hasn’t decided whether an Elon Musk Twitter takeover is something we should welcome or fear. His mind is also occupied by the idea raised by Megan McArdle that Americans are increasingly “sidestepping institutions” in their daily lives, as well as Matt Continetti’s perspective on the term “right-winger.” Plus, tune in for a predictably nerdy disquisition on populism and why an old-fashioned liberal ethos is what separates conservatism from statism.

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0:00.0

Oh

0:14.2

Ladies and gentlemen

0:16.2

Can I please have your attention

0:27.4

Please your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media

0:34.4

I

0:35.4

Know I've been kind of missing an action the last week

0:38.1

And we've gotten some complaints about it all I can tell you guys is I

0:46.6

Wish it were that I could have

0:49.7

Met all my obligations and done the G file on Wednesday and the dispatch live event and all that but

0:57.9

Very pressing personal stuff got in the way that you know, I don't want to talk about quite yet

1:03.4

For reasons that when I talk about it will be kind of obvious why I want why I didn't want to talk about it

1:10.3

But I guess it's sort of a

1:14.2

It's a good example of how

1:20.2

Often you know this one of the one of these things that I have noticed for you know

1:26.3

25 years of being

1:28.6

fairly open with my

1:30.6

My readers and I and later my listeners and all that kind of stuff

1:35.9

My Twitter followers whatever is that one of the problems when you have

1:41.8

When you put yourself out there a bit more than the normal pundit

1:47.0

When you have other stuff going on in your life that you don't want to share a

1:51.7

Lot of people both of goodwill and of badwill and everything in between

1:56.0

Take it upon themselves to project or fill in the blanks

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