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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Cheesehead Initiative

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Liquor connoisseur and noted Wisconsinite Christian Schneider joins The Remnant for the first time to discuss America’s strange plague of misinformation. In an age where politicians are incentivized to embrace ludicrous positions and all facts are negotiable, how can sanity be restored? For that matter, what’s wrong with modern political campaigns? Did God create Listerine? And what does the future hold for college education? Show Notes: - Christian's page at The Dispatch - Christian’s page at The College Fix - Christian’s new book, Anti-Knowledge - Christian: “Our Elected Officials Are a Threat to Civic Knowledge” - The (ostensible) madness of Ron Johnson - Critical Path, by Buckminster Fuller - Institutional comedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh

0:14.2

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?

0:18.0

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Jiggy!

0:28.0

Greetings, here listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Retinant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:33.0

Come check us out. We are firing on all cylinders in 2022.

0:39.0

And words that are supposed to be out of my mouth now are not coming because I still have COVID-brain.

0:50.0

And I feel very weird.

0:53.0

But, and I want to apologize, we had planned on having Michael Schellenberger on the podcast today and I didn't realize that I had double book things because again, I'm a dumb person.

1:08.0

And my brain doesn't work anymore.

1:10.0

And I had been talking to our today's guest, who I've known for a gazillion years in one way or another, about coming on for his book and then all of a sudden, like, hey, let's just do it tomorrow.

1:22.0

And he was kind enough to pitch in and I appreciate that.

1:25.0

So we have, I'm sorry to report yet another cheesehead on podcast.

1:32.0

He is a Christian Schneider. He is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today, where I was for, I don't know, like 12 years or something like that.

1:42.0

He's a reporter for the college fix. He's a frequent contributor to the Dispatch.

1:47.0

And he knows where to get various brown liquors in Madison, Wisconsin, or at least that is my experience when I've been to Madison, Wisconsin, and seen him.

1:59.0

Oh, and he has a new book out called Anti-Nolage. And we will, I'll give you the full title and two seconds again, COVID brain.

2:08.0

Anti-Nolage essays from the era of negotiable truths.

2:14.0

Christian, welcome to the Remnant. I apologize for not having you on earlier.

2:18.0

It was like, when I saw that you had a book out, it was like, holy crap, I haven't, I've never had them on the podcast.

2:22.0

So I apologize for that in advance and welcome to Remnant.

2:26.0

Yeah, thanks for having me. It was a little strange. It had been almost three days since you had a Wisconsin guy on the podcast.

2:32.0

I'm happy to fill in.

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