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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Paul Matzko - a historian who has charted the legacy of talk radio and the conservative movement - joins The Remnant pantheon. While conservatives may be familiar with the lasting legacy of figures like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved, Paul shows that they follow a path established by religious conservatives stretching back to the 60s. Learn about the Kennedy administration’s checkered history with AM radio, and about the differing impacts of the radio populists versus the print-magazine intellectuals, such as Buckley at National Review. Show Notes: -Paul’s book, The Radio Right - out now via ebook, out in hardcover… whenever the pandemic stops -Paul’s futurism podcast, Building Tomorrow -Paul’s podcast with an old socialist friend, Impolitic -George Nash’s history of the conservative intellectual movement -Jonah’s longstanding beef with Father Coughlin -Victor Lasky’s book, It Didn’t Start with Watergate -Paul and John Samples’ research on ineffective social media regulation -The history of “Revolutionary Defeatism” -Paul on the Polish ham boycott -Pacifica Radio’s left-wing radicalism -Robert Darnton’s Censors at Work -DonorsTrust.org/dingo -ExpressVPN.com/remnant

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0:27.6	Green is your listener. This is Jonah Goldberg, post of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. Go to the Dispatch.com
0:37.8	To find out what really happened with the Magic Bullet.
0:42.3	Today's episode is brought to you by our friends at Donors Trust and ExpressVPN. More about them in a little bit.
0:52.4	So today we're doing, I saw some stuff on Twitter the other day about this new book that was coming out and I said to myself,
1:01.8	this is in your wheelhouse, this looks interesting and
1:07.6	we just went ahead and grabbed the author and we're gonna talk about it. I will, I've already confessed to him that I have not
1:15.6	finished the book, which is a nice way of saying I only really just recently started the book, but it's really interesting and I have interesting questions.
1:24.6	So our guest today is Paul Matsco author of the Radio Right, how a band of broadcasters took on the federal government and built the modern conservative
1:35.4	movement. It's from Oxford University Press. Paul, welcome to the Remnant. Thank you so much for having me.
1:41.5	So first tell us about yourself. What's your day job?
1:45.5	So I am the editor for Tech and Innovation at the Kato Institute. I like many other
1:52.9	disenchanted academics had a hard time finding a tenure track job as a historian, which is my background, my training.
1:59.9	And it turns out that doing a podcast is a pretty reasonable facsimile
2:05.9	of lecturing in the classroom. I mean, you don't get that in-person vibe that you get from talking to students in the classroom, but you get to do a lot of the same intellectual work.
2:15.9	You can pursue topics that you find interesting and get paid the talk about it. So I run the podcast called Building Tomorrow for the Kato Institute.
2:23.9	So Russ Roberts, I'm sure you know or know of.
2:28.9	I remember he's to say how you know people say why do you do this podcast when it has, you know, such limited reach.
2:36.9	And he said something along the lines of I don't know there are like 50,000 people who listen to this imagine speaking to a stadium full of 50,000 people.
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