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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Refuting Socialism

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off the heels of his new manifesto (not of the communist variety, though), Iain Murray, CEI senior fellow, joins Jonah on The Remnant to discuss The Socialist Temptation: what it is, who it hits hardest, why socialism isn’t really even an economic theory, and what to do about it. Show Notes: -The Socialist TemptationIain’s new book, -BBC’s generously donated show sets, to spruce up your Zoom background -Iain refuting Thomas Piketty -Josh Muravchik’s “Theories of the New Class” -“Socialism is the name of our desire” -Corporatism and Comparative Politics: The Other Great “Ism” -Ten Thousand Commandments 2020 -Violence and Social OrdersNorth’s -#NationalizeMySpace -Reagan’s speech at Hillsdale in the 70s -Jonah at the Oxford Union -“Socialism is so hot right now” -DonorsTrust.org/Dingo for access to “6 Reasons to Use a Donor-Advised Fund”

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Oh

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Ladies and gentlemen

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Could I please have your attention?

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Hello

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Please do listen to this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the dispatch and the dispatch.com

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So today we have a treat. We have an old friend of mine the guy who was

0:57.0

the our sort of ringer

1:00.2

coach when Peter Rodman and I went off to Oxford about 15 years ago to debate

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At the Oxford political union and it was a immense help and it was also sort of a former

1:17.4

colleague or comrade and arms of mine in my NR days and

1:21.5

He's come out with a new book that I highly recommend the socialist temptation and his name is Ian Murray

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Ian welcome to the Remnant Podcast. It says shame. We haven't had you on sooner

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But it's a delight to be here. That's something else crossed off my bucket list

1:38.0

And speaking of bucket list just so

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listeners, I think everyone knows at this point that we do these things we're doing these things by Zoom and

1:46.5

Zencaster and this kind of stuff and so as we don't go into the studio which I miss

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and

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So we see each other when we're doing this over

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The interwebs, but this is the first time when we've had a guest whose background for the Zoom meeting was the interior of the

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