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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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His head all aswirl with yet-to-be-released Remnants, Jonah Goldberg moseys on down to the swamp for a swim with the punditry alligators. Jonah covers the Indiana redistricting that was not, gunboat diplomacy, nonexistent mustard-gas whores, evil AI, amending the Constitution, and the d-bag of the year. Shownotes:—Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right—The Arena with Kasie Hunt—Dead metaphors G-File—Cocaine Is Not Mustard Gas G-File—A Man of Great Sideburns | Interview: James M. Bradley—The Dispatch's Charles Hilu on Congress and trade—Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism—Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair—Economist - “When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil”—Yuval Levin's American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again—Glenn Beck Interviews AI GEORGE WASHINGTON—Scott Lincicome: “The $140,000 ‘Poverty Line’ Is Laughably Wrong, So Why Does It Feel Right?” 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	Where do you find a clear signal in a world of static? In a time of rapid change cut through the noise,
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0:12.7	Get the full story. It's more than news. It's a trusted global perspective. The economist know which
0:19.0	way is up.
0:25.3	Hey, everyone, Steve Hayes with some big news from the dispatch. I want to tell you about dispatch hoontoes. Dispatch what? Honto, though some people pronounce it, Junto, is the name
0:32.3	Ben Franklin gave to the small gatherings he organized in Philadelphia taverns, starting in the 1720s.
0:38.3	Franklin's Hounthos, Spanish for Assembly or Council, consisted of 12 members, each of whom was
0:44.9	required to pledge that he, quote, loved truth for the truth's sake, unquote, and that he was
0:50.3	dedicated to personal growth for himself and improving his community.
0:55.0	These discussions at those junto meetings would contribute to the ideas that built our great country.
0:59.8	We launched dispatch juntoes without quite the same ambition, but with a deep conviction
1:04.0	about the need for a place where people can get together for civil and sane conversations
1:08.4	about the issues of the day. without the kind of nastiness and
1:12.6	posturing that's so prevalent on social media and elsewhere in our polarized politics.
1:17.4	The dispatch has hosted events across the country, and I've attended many of them.
1:21.0	I've been blown away by the turnout and the enthusiasm.
1:24.2	I've enjoyed having a beer or two with our members at each of these gatherings, and I think the real value for them has been the opportunity to meet one another.
1:31.3	I remember Nashville lingering at the bar at a great wing joint called Party Fowl with dispatch members after our hour-long program ended.
1:39.3	Our group talked for another hour at least, and they were so happy to have met one another, nobody even noticed when I slipped out.
1:46.3	I can't tell you how many times I heard something like, it's so great to be reminded that
1:51.0	there are other sane, normal people out here.
1:53.9	We're looking for dedicated dispatch members to organize regular meetups in their communities
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