Where Do We Go Now?

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jonah the Globetrotter has once again scattered to the four winds, temporarily leaving The Remnant once more in the capable hands of David French. Today, David speaks with his good friend Yascha Mounk, contributor to The Atlantic and founder of Persuasion. Mounk talks us through the current conditions within mainstream media outlets and how those institutions have the opportunity to lower the temperature of American discourse now that Trump is leaving office. David also talks about how a Biden administration might be expected to behave, and Yascha mentions that much of the conventional wisdom about the presidential election results are not only misguided, but that they often “underestimate the intelligence of the American people.” Show Notes: -David’s newsletter, The French Press -Yascha’s new publication, Persuasion -David Shor’s 2020 postmortem -The earliest mention of “nutpicking” that the Remnant crew could find -Jonathan Haidt’s Heterodox Academy -“Beirut on the Charles” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Can I please have your attention
0:19.4	You
0:27.8	Greetings dear listeners by now you've already noticed that this is not Jonah Goldberg's voice
0:33.0	This is David French from his colleague at the dispatch. I'm filling in for Jonah who is I believe out traveling
0:40.7	Something that's novel and new and interesting in this age of coronavirus
0:45.5	But don't hit pause on that on your iPhone
0:51.0	Don't hit pause on your Android or wherever you're listening to this podcast
0:54.2	You've I've got a great podcast for you. I'm gonna be talking to my good friend Yasha Monk
0:59.3	Yasha is he's a contributing writer at the Atlantic and associate professor John's Hopkins senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund
1:06.7	Senior advisor it protects democracy and also he is a fellow member of the
1:11.8	Substack pirate class
1:14.7	He started a new publication
1:17.6	On substack called persuasion and I'm very honored to be on the board of advisors of persuasion, but
1:25.0	Essentially well Yasha why don't you describe what persuasion is and then we'll launch into our conversation
1:31.5	Yeah, yes
1:34.2	Some of
1:36.2	Substacarati apparently
1:38.3	Indeed
1:40.6	Look persuasion comes from a frustration
1:44.3	With the paucity of publications and newspapers and magazines in the country that explicitly
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