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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Next Generation of Woke | Interview: Claire Lehmann

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Editor’s Note: Jonah is traveling this week, but he pre-recorded this episode with Claire Lehmann on September 8 to make sure you got your Remnant fix. Claire Lehmann, founder of Quillette and contributing writer for The Dispatch, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the radicalization of young women, the new wave of wokeness championed by figures like Zohran Mamdani, and why Australia is a terrifying continent filled with creatures that want you dead. Show Notes:—Claire Lehmann for The Dispatch: "The Next Generation of Wokeness"—Claire Lehmann for The Dispatch: "When Women Are Radicalized" 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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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

0:18.0

Can you digger?

0:27.5

Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

0:33.3

Extremely excited for today's guest.

0:35.7

Technically, we should have probably figured out a way to get her

0:38.4

into a counter programming month, but so be it. Claire Lehman is the founder of Quillette,

0:43.8

which is a fantastic publication, very dispatching and some of its priors, but it beat us to the

0:49.9

punch in existence, so we have to give credit we're due. They also have a podcast that goes by the same

0:54.8

name. We'll put all that in the show notes. And of course, to the excitement of, to the legions,

1:02.1

Claire is now a contributor to the dispatch, which we are extremely excited about. And because she's

1:09.1

in Australia, it's true that people do actually live there.

1:12.3

It's not made up. It's not fake news. This was extremely difficult to get on the book. So I'm

1:17.7

talking to her. She's lovely, talented, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and I am this giant

1:23.2

unmade bed of a man at the end of a very long day. And so desperate was I to speak to Claire

1:29.4

that I agreed to postpone cocktail hour so I could do this. So it's 630 here and it's like

1:35.6

February in Australia in the morning. Claire, welcome to the remnant. Thanks for having me, Jonah.

1:41.5

It's of absolute pleasure. Okay, so I was just rereading your great piece from a couple weeks ago for us about Zora Mondami and the possibility that wokeness is not so much over as mutating.

1:56.5

I am sympathetic, but I have some quibbles.

1:59.4

But let's, why don't we, why don't you make your case first, and then we can take it from there?

2:03.9

Yeah, well, I made an argument that was similar to another article I wrote for you guys about women radicalizing.

2:12.5

So young, educated women radicalizing.

2:14.6

And in that article, I wrote that there's a cultural,

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