Still recovering from last week’s deep dive into Burke and Berlin, Jonah Goldberg flexes his political muscles, traipsing across the Gaza deal, free speech in Britain, the Letitia James indictment, departmentalism, and the squalor of American politics.
Show Notes:
— Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
— Remnant Podcast with Jay Nordlinger
— Jonah’s Wednesday G-File on Tucker Carlson
— Remnant with Emily Oster
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Jonah Goldberg talks to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Molly Worthen about her recent book, Spellbound, as they trace the history of charisma—not to be confused with charm—through 400 years of American history.

Show Notes:
—Molly’s webpage
—Molly’s book: Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump

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Jonah Goldberg has convinced Dispatch contributing writer Jay Nordlinger to take a break from swanning about Europe to sit and chew over the great issues of our day. They discuss the two-year anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attacks, the Nobel Peace Prize, the consequences of presidential action, and free speech.

Show Notes:
—Jay’s Substack
—Jay’s New Criterion page
—Renew Democracy Initiative
—The Next Move Substack
—Jay’s book: Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
—The Rest Is History episode on Enoch Powell

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After powering through some rank punditry, Jonah Goldberg displays his intellectual prowess by tackling G.K. Chesterton’s take on Edmund Burke, outlining mankind’s three great revolutions, and dissecting our notion of “identity crisis.”

Show Notes:
—Friday’s Dispatch Podcast
—Chesterton on Burke
—Jonah’s Remnant with Allen Guelzo
—Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
—“The Hedgehog and the Fox”

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Frenemies Jonah Goldberg and Elliot Williams, accustomed to sitting across from each other on CNN, come together to discuss a meeting of generals, the Comey indictment, and the drift of the parties.

Show Notes:
—Elliot Williams’s Profile
—Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation
—Advisory Opinions episode on Comey indictment
—“Why Everyone Is Rushing to Label Themselves an ‘Independent’ ” - Jonah’s LA Times Column
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Jonah Goldberg teams up with Emily Oster—Brown University economist, and more importantly, Dispatch contributor—to discuss Tylenol and autism, the allure of tradwives, and the battle over household divisions of labor.

Show Notes:
—Emily Oster’s writer page for The Dispatch
—Emily for The Dispatch: Missteps to a Misguided Claim
—ParentData website
—Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong—and What You Really Need to Know
—Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
—The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Year
—The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications
—“I, Pencil”

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Jonah Goldberg is smacked back to reality from his break abroad with the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and the beginning symptoms of a cold. Powering his way through cough medicine, he argues against the vindictive nature of the Trump administration, dives into the hagiography of Charlie Kirk on the right, and revisits the debate between Athens vs. Jerusalem from his Remnant episode with historian Allen C. Guelzo.

Show Notes:
—Andrew McCarthy's piece on the Comey indictment in National Review
—Nick Catoggio's Boiling Frogs newsletter on the Comey indictment
—Jonah's Remnant with Allen Guelzo
—Jonah's Wednesday G-File
—Advisory Opinions' episode with Richard Primus

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Historian Allen C. Guelzo joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss his new book, The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom, exploring the origins of the key threads that make up the Western tradition, how they were woven together over two-and-a-half millennia, and how foundational ideas such as science, freedom, equality, law, good government, and virtue emerged and evolved.

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Renowned psychologist Steven Pinker joins Jonah Goldberg to share insights from his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life, which explores humanity’s unique sixth sense for common knowledge.
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Editor’s note: Jonah Goldberg has vanished somewhere in the Swiss Alps. While search-and-rescue teams brave the mountains, we’re re-airing a Remnant classic with fan favorite Yuval Levin. This episode first aired March 26, 2025.

Not since Thomas Jefferson podcasting alone has a guest been so wise as Yuval Levin, who joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the trend of Lebowskian communication mishaps, the danger of obsessive abstraction in Trumpian times, and the promise of connecting with the median voter.

Show Notes:
—The Atlantic: "Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
—Yuval on The Ezra Klein Show
—Yoni Appelbaum on The Remnant
—National Review: "Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!"
—Yuval for The Free Press

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