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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Goldberg dissects the inflammatory ‘war’ rhetoric coming from both the right and left following the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk, the rise of political violence in recent years, and the various forms of killing throughout human history. But first, Jonah wants you to know he’s not an arsonist. Show Notes:—Jonah Goldberg for National Review: Debate Amongst Yourselves—Charles Fain Lehmann on The Remnant—Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Advisory Opinions 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? Can I please have your attention? Daniel Diggins!
0:27.5	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg,
0:29.5	host of a Remnant podcast.
0:31.1	Thank you by the dispatch and dispatch media.
0:33.7	It is Friday morning at 8.58 a.m.
0:38.3	Good Lord, I can't look at myself.
0:39.7	You know, I record this on QuickTime while I'm doing the audio.
0:43.6	And I don't know if it ends up, I hope it doesn't,
0:46.2	whole thing doesn't end up on YouTube,
0:47.8	but I think they use it for clips sometimes, whatever,
0:50.6	and they want videos sometimes.
0:51.6	So, but I cannot look at uh while I do this or I would
0:57.3	go nuts it would be very distracting um it's weird though because like when I do normal TV I like to have
1:04.1	the monitor on and because it reminds me to see that I'm on TV but like um when I record this I record this all the thing, I just can't do it.
1:13.2	So I don't know. I guess I guess I can tell you guys about this. I haven't told my wife,
1:19.3	like last week or so, you know, we have this outdoor wood, uh, stove thing, you know,
1:27.1	outdoor fire pit kind of thing. And, um, even on warm-ish days,
1:33.2	I sometimes light it because I think the smoke helps keep mosquitoes and stuff away while
1:36.9	I'm working outside. Also, I've always been a bit of a firebug. I just like, I like fires.
1:42.4	I like playing with fires. I like stoking fires.
1:44.8	Like, not like in an arson sense, but I like starting campfires or putting a starting a fire
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