The Atlantic Interview: Jonah Goldberg

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Writer Jonah Goldberg talks with The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about being a conservative without a party in the age of Donald Trump. Jonah says there are many factors contributing to the dysfunction and paralysis in the Republican Party, and that thinkers and leaders on the right may have a very small window to fix these problems before the party disintegrates. Jeffrey and Jonah also discuss the experience of waiting in television green rooms. Read the transcript. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	So welcome to the Atlantic interview. This is the special All-Goldberg edition of the Atlantic
0:40.6	interview. My guest today is Jonah Goldberg. Jonah, tell us who you are. I mean, I know who you are.
0:46.4	I am a senior editor of National Review where I've been for almost 20 years. I'm a fellow at the American
0:50.9	Enterprise. When did you move from junior to senior? I was for a long time what they called an editor at large.
0:56.8	I was the founding.
0:57.6	It also sounds like you're a wild animal.
0:59.7	Yeah, a little bit.
1:00.8	He's at large.
1:02.1	For me, what was great about it, the job description was...
1:05.0	Orange Conservative.
1:06.2	I was allowed to give whatever advice I wanted on hiring and firing, on changing things, and running
1:11.2	these kinds of articles, those kinds of articles. But I had zero accountability for having any of
1:15.6	it actually happen. Editors are at large, are neither editors nor at large.
1:18.8	There you go. Right. So that's your main job. Your main job is at National Review still.
1:22.6	Well, I mean, I'm basically in the Jonah Goldberg business, right? So I'm a syndicated columnist. I'm a columnist for the LA Times.
1:28.3	Got the G-file.
1:29.1	I got this thing called the G-file, which is this weird newsletter thing.
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