Having exhausted his Jeffrey/Jonah Goldberg jokes on The Dispatch Podcast, Jonah Goldberg launches into an epic rant on the tyranny of intellectual mobs, the flaws of morally blind due process, and the emerging artificial intelligence anime art movement. Plus: long-view Signal-gate revelations and the superficial logic of the Trump administration’s tariff strategy.

Show Notes:

—The Maoist anime AI drawing in question

—Yuval Levin’s latest Remnant appearance

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It’s fan-favorite week at Casa de Remnant.Jonah Goldberg is joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams, staff writer at The Atlantic and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss illiberalism on the right, dole out some sympathy for the most ardent defenders of wokeness, and dig into Thomas’ upcoming book, Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.

Show Notes:

—Thomas’ piece in The Atlantic: “How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left”

—Musa al-Gharbi on The Remnant

—Jonah’s “Critical Trump Theory”

—Woke chili

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Not since Thomas Jefferson podcasting alone has a guest been so wise as Yuval Levin, who joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the recent 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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Join Jonah Goldberg on a journey up the Northeast Regional line as he ruminates upon the impeachment of federal judges, the enemy within, the world’s laziest Congress, and the chicken and the egg game for oligarchs and plutocrats. Plus: disturbing DOGE casualties and a greatest hits reel of Jonah’s analogies.

Show Notes:

—Jonah’s LA Times column from this week

—The New York Times: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening

—Alex Tabarrok on The Remnant

—Yoni Appelbaum on The Remnant

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Yoni Appelbaum, deputy executive editor of The Atlantic, makes his Remnant debut 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 geographic mobility, the tricky history of tenements, and the dirty laundry of zoning.

Show Notes:

—Order Yoni’s book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

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Clifford D. May, founder and director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, enters The Remnant multiverse with Jonah Goldberg to reevaluate the world stage and all its conflicts. Cliff and Jonah debate who’s leading the new Axis of Evil and dig into the growing trend of expansionist politics and the depressing lack of fact-based arguments in contemporary foreign policy.Show Notes:

—Listen to the "Foreign Policy" podcast

—Learn more about FDD

—The Wall Street Journal: “The Painting That Explains Trump’s Foreign Policy”

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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 day’s Ruminant.

Show Notes:

—Jim Geraghty for National Review: “Why the Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal is No Cause for Celebration”

—Jake Meador for The Dispatch: “The Perils of Positive Thinking”

—The Wednesday G-File in question

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Jonah Goldberg has gone AWOL, and Kevin Williamson of Dispatch fame has risen to the task of Remnant hosting duties. Kevin is joined by Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg to discuss their new book, The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions. The trio covers crony capitalism, how businesses can succeed amid political chaos, and how family enterprises can survive the breakneck speed of social change.

Show Notes:

—Devin and Ivan for Salon: “The Return of Crony Capitalism”

—Order The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions.

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There’s 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, tumultuous trade policy, and Jonah’s crusade against the cryptocurrency reserve.

Show Notes:

—Cato Institute: “The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934”

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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 reserve. Plus: the fallout from last week's Oval Office disaster and a grim prediction for the next three years.

Show Notes:

—Scott Linsciome in The Dispatch: “‘Reciprocal Tariffs’ Are Trump’s Worst Trade Idea Yet”

—Burke's “Birds of Prey” speech

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