The Right Side: Part 1

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The Remnant ascends to a higher plane of nerdom today, as Matthew Continetti returns to discuss his new book, The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. This episode presents the first half of a two-hour conversation between Jonah and Matt, which takes us on a freewheeling journey from the ‘20s to the ‘70s. They begin by exploring whether it’s possible to provide a simple definition of conservatism before digging deeply into the evolution of the movement. What did conservatism look like before the New Deal? How did William F. Buckley Jr. shape modern politics? Is fusionism still relevant? And how should we remember figures like Richard Nixon, Calvin Coolidge, and George Wallace? All of these questions and more are addressed within. But to learn about the Reagan era onward, and to hear some of Jonah’s quibbles with the book, you’ll have to tune in next week.

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.3	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.3	Can I please have your attention
0:27.5	Greetings to listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant podcast about the dispatch and dispatch media
0:33.3	this is a very special episode of
0:36.5	the Remnant
0:38.5	as a long-time listeners know every now and then when I have to get my fix on
0:43.8	conservative intellectual history
0:45.8	Nerdery my go-to guy to
0:49.0	Do this with is Matt Contanetti my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute and he is finally
0:54.8	After years of me
0:56.8	somewhat puckishly asking him are you done yet? Are you done yet?
0:59.9	He's actually done his new book the right the hundred-year war for American conservatism is out
1:06.4	I think this will come out if not on pub date right around pub date
1:11.1	And I want to say up front. I always joke about how I don't joke. It's actually deadly serious
1:17.3	But I always crow about how this podcast moves books and I I certainly hope that this
1:26.0	Does exactly that
1:29.4	I highly recommend the book I have
1:32.3	Friendly points of departure from it which we're going to get into today, but if I were a normal
1:38.0	Intellectually engaged or politically engaged American who wanted to know the history of American conservatism
1:44.2	I would probably say that this is the best book that they could get
1:47.5	I
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