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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week’s Ruminant may have been recorded earlier this week, but it’s aged like fine wine, as postliberalism continues to delegitimize itself, capitalism continues to triumph, state-run grocery stores are still a really stupid idea, and Rousseau is still wrong.Plus: the roots of economic resentment and Jonah’s thoughts on the pervasive phenomenon of main character syndrome. Show Notes:—Tyler Cowen in The Free Press: “Why Won’t Socialism Die?”—Tim Carney: The Big Ripoff: How Big Business And Big Government Steal Your Money—Scott Lincicome’s Capitolism: “State-Run Supermarkets: A (Bad) Statist Solution in Search of a Problem”—EconTalk with Russ Roberts—Bearish on the Wednesday G-File 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, regular 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	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can you digger?
0:34.6	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:44.0	For level-setting purposes, I am recording this on Wednesday, July 9 at 3.52 p.m., which means if this airs at its normal time,
0:49.1	lots of news will happen between now and then,
0:52.8	which means this has to be really kind of navel-gazing,
0:58.3	sea of the pants, evergreen stuff simply because I just, I literally just realized,
1:04.0	just wrote the G-file and realized I'm leaving tomorrow early in the afternoon for a wedding in the Pacific Northwest.
1:13.6	And since we have the dispatch podcast in the morning, I won't have time to record this.
1:18.7	And I'm not sure whether I'll be able to record it by the time when I get to Washington
1:23.1	the state, let no one say they weren't warned.
1:25.6	So some of you may have heard the special edition of the Remnant I did with Chris Starwalt at an AEI event.
1:35.6	We covered a lot of familiar territory for longtime listeners and readers of mine.
1:40.3	The most shocking and different thing about it was Chris Starwall was kind of dark, I thought.
1:47.0	Like, I'm supposed to be the Kermudgeon.
1:50.0	He covered a lot of my greatest hits in ways that, you know, I kind of thought were kind of surprising.
1:54.0	But it was fun.
1:55.0	The audience was a little cold, I thought.
1:58.0	Didn't know what to make of us.
2:00.0	And that's fine.
2:02.5	Different horses for different courses.
2:08.2	But I will say, again, the summer honors program at AEI is really just a great program. You can take classes from Contonetti, from Yvall Levin, right now.
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