The Life of Shadi

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Shadi Hamid of the hated Brookings Institution returns to the Remnant to discuss his new book, The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea. He and Jonah engage in a nerdtastic exploration of democracy—its strengths, its weaknesses, and how it should be understood in the American context. What is “democratic minimalism,” and should we embrace it? Why is democracy particularly well suited to a society as large and diverse as the United States? And what should primary elections be replaced with?

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0:09.7	I'm not a gentleman, man.
0:16.7	Can I please have your attention?
0:18.7	Hello, Jenga.
0:27.7	Greetings, your listeners.
0:28.7	This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast.
0:30.7	Brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:33.7	Thanks again for all the well wishes and condolences and all of that.
0:38.7	I'll probably have talked about this in the solo podcast,
0:43.7	but I'm doing one of these time travel things where we're recording this on Thursday, November 3,
0:49.7	and this won't go out until essentially my brain's not working out.
0:57.7	I won't go out until after the elections next week.
1:00.7	So we're not going to be talking about anything.
1:03.7	My view is there's nothing to say on election day or immediately afterwards.
1:08.7	And that won't be said a thousand other places.
1:11.7	And so we're going to counter program.
1:13.7	But we are going to talk a little bit about some stuff that happened last night.
1:16.7	I'll get to that in a second.
1:17.7	Anyway, I'm very excited for our guest.
1:19.7	This is a second time on the Remnant.
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