The Cultural Minefield | Interview: John Podhoretz

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today on The Remnant Jonah Goldberg indulges two of his favorite hobbies: competing in TV nerdery with John Podhoretz (grand poohbah of Commentary) and bashing the Straussians. John and Jonah cover the Claremont Institute, the decline of TV and cinema, Death by Lightning, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shownotes:—Commentary Podcast—GLoP Podcast—Fritz Feld doing the ‘pop’—Jonah’s Claremont Review of Books piece—Bloom and Jaffa - Shakespeare’s Politics—“The Flight 93 Election”—The American Mind—Gordon Wood’s address at AEI—Jonah’s Nixon G-File—Dear Mr. President: the Letters of Julia Sand | CEI Documentary—Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 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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