The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg


Latest Episodes

Mending the Bootstraps
March 20, 2025

Yoni Appelbaum, deputy executive editor ofThe Atlantic,makes hisRemnantdebut to discuss his new book,Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.Jonah Goldberg and Yoni discuss America's unique social and ge

Appeasing the New Axis
March 19, 2025

Clifford D. May, founder and director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, entersTheRemnantmultiverse with Jonah Goldberg to reevaluate the world stage and all its conflicts. Cliff and Jonah debate whos leading the new Axis of Evil and dig in

Free Speech A-holes
March 15, 2025

An overserved and hungover Jonah Goldberg gets into arguments with ChatGPT, picks fights with free speech martyrs, and offers a unified theory of Trumpism, all in a daysRuminant.Show Notes:Jim Geraghty forNational Review: Why the Ukraine Cease-Fi

The Mom and Pop School of Business
March 13, 2025

Jonah Goldberg has gone AWOL, and Kevin Williamson ofDispatchfame has risen to the task ofRemnanthosting duties. Kevin is joined by Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg to discuss their new book,The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in T

Reciprocal Deficit Deficiency
March 12, 2025

Theres a whole lot of red on various stock market indices this week, so Jonah Goldberg has conscripted Michael Strain, director of economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute, to talk money. Topics include: the likelihood of recession, tumultuou

The Present Creates the Past
March 08, 2025

After sufficiently kvetching over Weimar-style cigar inflation, Jonah Goldberg ruminates upon Donald Trump tripping over tariffs, the abhorrent actions of the Department of Justice regarding the Eric Adams case, and the insanity of the proposed crypto res

Sufficient Opposition
March 06, 2025

Jonah Goldberg came to theRemnantstudio exhausted by his nightshift at the cable news factory, so he enlisted one Brother Chris Stirewalt to save the show once again. Jonah and Chris analyze Trumps Tuesday night address to Congress from all angles, inc

Keynesian Kayfabe
March 05, 2025

Jonah Goldberg is joined by author and research analyst Ross Benes to discuss his new book,1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times.Jonah and Ross discuss beanie babies as a precursor to crypto, the political triump

The Delicious Lamentations of Priests
March 01, 2025

From the civilizational lynchpin of gratitude to the misplaced obsession with diplomacy to MAGAs mafia style of governance, todaysRuminantwill be a one deep cut after another forSuicide of the Westreaders.There will also be one or two I-told-you-so

Bonus: The Oval Office Ambush
February 28, 2025

ARuminantof Homeric length about the distress of the liberal world order will be released tomorrow, but the fallout from the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump today necessitated a rapid emergency rant