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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Episode 109: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

June 14, 2019

Jonah invites George Will, author of The Conservative Sensibility, onto the Remnant to discuss the book and how George Will helped make him into a pundit in the first place.

Latest Episodes

Episode 108: Bears!

May 31, 2019

'Bears Want To Kill You' author Ethan Nicolle joins The Remnant to counter incessant bear propaganda.

Episode 107: It All Goes Back To Cyrus the Great

May 24, 2019

Is America going to war with Iran? What does Cyrus the Great have to do with it? AEI scholar Ken Pollack joins to answer these and other questions.

Episode 106: Blame the Boomers

May 22, 2019

Jonah brings Wall Street Journal editorial board member Joe Sternberg onto The Remnant to answer these and other questions.

Episode 105: Open Doar Policy

May 17, 2019

AEI scholar and (AEI president-to-be) Robert Doar joins The Remnant to talk New York politics, how capitalism isn’t failing, Seinfeld, and more.

Episode 104: Chicago!

May 15, 2019

Live from Chicago itself, Jonah attempts to answer some pressing questions with the help of John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute.

Episode 103: Violent Nuance

May 7, 2019

Rank punditry on Bill Barr and the Democratic field, and pop-culture punditry on "Avengers: Endgame" and "Game of Thrones."

Episode 102: My Podcast Left Me Ireland

May 2, 2019

Michael Brendan Dougherty returns to The Remnant to discuss nationalism, patriotism, and identity, the themes of his new book.

Episode 101: JG Squared

April 30, 2019

Do politicians write their own books? How much of a slob is Jonah Goldberg? Jessica Gavora, D.C.-area writer (and Jonah's wife) answers these and more.

Episode 100: The Sowell of Economics

April 25, 2019

Thomas Sowell joins Jonah for a long conversation on discrimination, inequality, the uses and misuses of economics, and more.

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Books, Arts & Manners

‘Don’t Apologize’: Ricky Gervais Takes On Verbal Terrorism

By Kyle Smith

Ricky Gervais calls himself “a lefty liberal champagne socialist,” but when he says, “I don’t agree that feelings are more important than facts,” he echoes Ben Shapiro. The point of intersection: Both men support speaking freely. This quality makes them somewhat courageous, though it ... Read More

World

The Election Is Legitimate Only If the Democrats Win

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Editor’s note: Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book is Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. This is the third in a series of excerpts; the first can be read here and the second here. ‘Horrifying!” As we’ve seen, candidates can get chirpy at final presidential ... Read More

Video

Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest

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Politics & Policy

Hillary Ruins the Plan

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Editor’s note: Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book is Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. This is the first in a series of excerpts. There really was a collusion plot. It really did target our election system. It absolutely sought to usurp our capacity for ... Read More

Law & the Courts

An Alaskan Women’s Shelter Is Sued for Turning Away a ‘Man in a Nightgown’

By Madeleine Kearns

It was a cold Friday night in January when Sherrie Laurie, director of the Hope Center — a Christian homeless shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska — was called down to the floor to deal with a disruptive “man in a nightgown” who was “very inebriated, with a big gash down his face.” Laurie recognized ... Read More

Culture

An Insider’s Guide to Italian Insults

By Joseph Loconte

The tragicomic irony of Chris Cuomo’s pugilistic outburst earlier this week — cursing and physically threatening a man for taunting him with a reference to the movie The Godfather — is that the CNN anchor reinforced the usual tropes about Italian Americans. We are all wise-guys, goons, and Mafiosi, just ... Read More

Education

What European Countries Sacrifice for Free College

By Jason Delisle & Preston Cooper

The higher-education system in Finland is supposedly every American progressive’s dream. The Finnish government pays 96 percent of the total cost of providing young Finns with a college education; almost all domestic students at Finnish universities pay nothing in tuition. Indeed, Finland subsidizes its ... Read More

Religion

Another Pop-Culture Christian Loses His Faith

By David French

It’s happened again. For the second time in three weeks, a prominent (at least in Evangelical circles) Christian has renounced his faith. In July, it was Josh Harris, a pastor and author of the mega-best-selling purity-culture book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. This month, it’s Hillsong United songwriter and ... Read More

Economy & Business

The Great Mystery

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

Kevin Williamson disputes my characterization of his riposte. He writes: I wrote that people can choose what kind of work they want to do, and what kind of services they want to consume, without any help from Michael. Kevin then accuses me of being a stouthearted defender of the “Real America.” If ... Read More

World

The End of Hong Kong as We Know It

By Helen Raleigh

The protests in Hong Kong have been going on for more than four months now, and no matter how the current crisis concludes in the coming days or weeks, it will mark the end of Hong Kong as we know it. The protests started in response to an extradition bill that was proposed by the city’s Beijing-backed ... Read More