On Mobs and Mobsters

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Having exhausted his Jeffrey/Jonah Goldberg jokes on The Dispatch Podcast, Jonah Goldberg launches into an epic rant on the tyranny of intellectual mobs, the flaws of morally blind due process, and the emerging artificial intelligence anime art movement. Plus: long-view Signal-gate revelations and the superficial logic of the Trump administration’s tariff strategy. Show Notes: —The Maoist anime AI drawing in question —Yuval Levin’s latest Remnant appearance 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, regular livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.5	Hey. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:49.5	Can you diggers? Greetings, dear listeners, This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media as well as spacely Sprockets.
1:04.8	I think I'm going to make this a Jeffrey Goldberg joke free zone today.
1:09.7	Like, I'm tired of the jokes about the jokes. And it's not like the
1:13.9	original jokes were all that funny to begin with. And if you don't know what I'm talking about
1:17.7	at this point, God bless. Here's hoping they pull you off the respirator soon. So where to begin?
1:24.5	I don't know. As per my habit here, I'm going to just start talking randomly.
1:30.5	I thought I had two particularly great guests this week. I'm not sure my end of the
1:34.1	conversations was up to snuff. I've been feeling weird in the mornings. I'm not exactly
1:40.2	sure why. I trip more and more on the empty bottles around my bed. Evol's always great.
1:47.9	You know, what did I say, call him a sort of psychedelic silly putty? He just, he's very centering,
1:53.7	very zen. Thomas Chatterner Williams is great, although I still feel guilty for over-talking him
1:59.9	too much.
2:01.7	He's a little concise in his answers, and then he throws stuff back at me, and I just find
2:06.4	what he says interesting, so then I want to riff.
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