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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Rum-brained and sunburned, Jonah Goldberg posts up poolside to ruminate on the Caribbean's cruise economy, Woodrow Wilson, how we think about history, Trump’s condo-salesman vanity, the ongoing war in Ukraine, J.D. Vance as the “fraud czar,” and the journalistic ethics of Polymarket. Show Notes:—Wednesday's G-File—AO pod wherein David French acknowledges his intellectual debt to Jonah—Remnant - The Great Cancellation of Woodrow Wilson—Jonah’s book Liberal Fascism— Dan McLaughlin - “The Hater’s Guide to Woodrow Wilson”—Washington Post - “Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency”—Last week’s Remnant—Dr. Oz - “Best State of the Union ever”—Ukraine: The Latest on the four-year anniversary of the war—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast—In Living Color- Hey Mon 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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0:00.0	This episode of The Remnant is brought to you by our friends at the Pacific Legal Foundation.
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1:08.9	Can you diggers?
1:21.5	Greetings, new listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought you by the dispatch and dispatch media.
1:23.8	I'm sorry, my brain, I haven't done this in a while.
1:26.0	This is the longest stretch I've gone without recording any this in a while. This is the longest stretch I've gone
1:27.8	without recording any podcasts in a while. This is my last full day here in Antigua, which has been
1:35.5	lovely. I don't quite have like Caribbean brain. I'm not like saying yamand everything. I don't
1:42.9	think anybody I'm traveling here with listens to this so i can
1:45.5	be honest love the people i'm with their friends they're great people they're more beach people
1:51.7	than i am including my wife my ideal vacation is more of a flaneur walking around paris kind of
1:58.8	or london kind of thing but it's also just good to have like
2:02.1	down brain time and get some exercise and all that and and it's nice to hang out with with
2:12.2	people you all like but I've never been a huge, huge fan of the Caribbean,
2:18.3	qua, the Caribbean, part because it's the beach thing.
2:21.3	It's one of the reasons why I'm not that big a fan of Florida either.
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