Wonky Wednesday

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jonah abdicates his duties and conscripts Dispatch national correspondent Kevin D. Williamson to pick up the slack. Kevin is joined by Kent Lassman, the president and CEO of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to discuss Adam Smith, free trade, and the recent SCOTUS verdict on Moore v. U.S. Kevin and Lassman shoulder the Sisyphean burden of decoding tax law, discuss the miracle of American innovation, and debate the hot question of punditlandia: Who should make law? Show Notes: -Follow Kevin’s work at The Dispatch -Kent’s CEI Page 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh...
0:15.0	can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you, Jigga! Greetings, dear listeners. I feel like I should start that way since Jonah starts that way.
0:32.0	This is the revenue but this is not
0:33.5	Jonah Goldberg. This is Kevin Williamson sitting in. It is a coup d'etat morning for the
0:38.5	remnant so we will be doing things
0:43.0	we're doing differently instead of having one of Jonah's
0:45.0	AEEI colleagues on as a guest
0:47.2	or having one of my CEI colleagues on as a guest.
0:50.1	And this is Kent Lassman, who is the boss over there and other things in life.
0:55.6	Can't do people confuse AI and CEO a lot?
0:58.6	Not as much as I would expect, but I do get that confusion and usually I just let it roll by because you know most of the
1:06.3	things happening over at A. E. I. are pretty darn good. So which came first?
1:11.4	A A. E. I. But quite a bit.
1:14.0	They've been around, well, see, I's been here for 40 years, but A.E.I. I think it's found it just after the war, if I'm not mistaken.
1:22.0	Kent, I've got some stuff I want to talk to you about
1:24.2	some policy wonkery stuff today,
1:26.3	but before we get to that,
1:28.4	the much, much more interesting issue
1:32.2	is that you just swam the English channel.
1:34.7	Yes, two weeks ago today.
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