The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg


Intellectuals of the New Right | Interview: Laura Field

December 29, 2025

Caving to popular demand for more talk about Straussians, Jonah Goldberg sits down with Laura Field to discuss the ideas driving the New Right. Follow Laura and Jonah as they fall down rabbit holes and explore digressions in the complicated story of 20th-century conservatism, the rise of MAGA, and the intellects behind Trumpism.

Shownotes:
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
Remnant on Straussians
Project 2025
“The Flight 93 Election”
Michael Anton: “Harry V. Jaffa: An Appreciation”
1776 Commission Report
Yoram HazonyThe Virtue of Nationalism
Herbert CrolyThe Promise Of American Life
Charles A. ReichThe Greening of America
The 1619 Project
Marco Rubio: “Industrial Policy, Right and Wrong”
Patrick Deneen: Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
The American Mind
Richard Reinsch: “‘Furious Minds’ Review: The Road to MAGA”
Jonah on Invasion of the Body Snatchers and MAGA converts
— Peter Schramm: “Born American, But in the Wrong Place”

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