Social Darwinism and the Straw Man

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jonah flies solo on the week’s first Remnant, as he tries out a format that seeks to provide the footnotes to some of the most commonly landed-on items from the program’s bingo card. On this first explainer, Jonah tackles the straw man and frequent leftist punching bag called social Darwinism, and whether or not such an ideology ever even existed in the first place. Do any conservatives actually believe this stuff? And how did the tables turn on libertarians to such a degree that the most laissez-faire political ideology possible ended up facing accusations of eugenic sympathies? (You can also tune in to learn why you should never trust Wisconsinites.) Show Notes: -The (underrated) Tyranny of Clichés -Obama calls the GOP budget “social Darwinism” -Schoenwald has some strange opinions on Herbert Spencer -The University of Wisconsin and progressivism -Hofstadter’s book on social Darwinism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.3	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.3	Can I please have your attention
0:27.6	Greetings to your listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg. This is not a normal
0:31.9	Remnant podcast as some of you may recall I floated this idea
0:38.3	somewhat inspired by the podcast
0:41.3	revolutions of doing
0:43.3	Supplementals as they call them on the revolutions podcast where I just take a specific topic
0:50.5	Particularly something I have written about and I try to expand on it or I
0:57.4	Basically just read something that I've written in a more formal way without
1:03.0	doing the sort of madcap weird
1:05.1	Chasing my tail through my brain of the the solo remnant podcast that I usually do on Fridays and so I'm gonna give this a try
1:17.3	If it's usually popular maybe I'll do more of them if it's if it's not
1:21.7	You know lesson learned that's fine by me
1:24.9	and
1:26.9	I am gonna be reading from stuff
1:30.3	most of this is
1:32.3	Is sort of edited down from
1:36.1	the chapter on social Darwinism that I did for
1:40.4	tyranny cliches
1:42.4	an underrated book with a terrible title and
1:46.1	I'll be freelancing some of this stuff because I think
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