Jonah Goldberg addresses the ‘thoughts and prayers’ backlash following the tragic school shooting in Minneapolis, examines fractures within the Trump coalition, and continues the Dispatch Roundtable’s discussion of how bad Franklin D. Roosevelt was as a president.

Show Notes:
—In Defense of Thoughts and Prayers
—Michael Brandon Doughtery's article for National Review
—Friday's Dispatch Roundtable
—Daniel McCarthy's response to Jonah

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Jonah Goldberg is joined by Cass Sunstein, legal scholar and author of Manipulation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, What to Do About It, to define liberalism once and for all (it means being a mensch), explain the role of “nudging” in public policy, and defend the “abundance” agenda.

Show Notes:
—Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It

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Lord Daniel Hannan of Kingsclere joins Jonah Goldberg for a royal breakdown of new speech laws in the United Kingdom and to provide a history lesson on the Conservative Party.

Show Notes:

—⁠Hannan's website⁠

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Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the FBI search of John Bolton’s home, the uselessness of political labels, and how the ghost of Joseph McCarthy and the Soviet Union still haunts us.

Plus: More I-told-you-so’s from Liberal Fascism and Suicide of the West.

Show Notes:
—The Atlantic’s profile of Laura Loomer
—James Kirchick on Tucker Carlson
—Charles Fain Lehman on guaranteed income programs
—Wednesday’s G-File
—Fact check on Trump’s “six wars” claim

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Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologist and nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the differences between gender and sex, homosexuality in the animal kingdom, and epigenetics.

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Emmett Rensin, author of The Complications: On Going Insane in America, joins Jonah Goldberg for a candid conversation on the state of our mental health institutions, the history of the insanity defense and his own challenges navigating care while living with schizoaffective disorder.

Show Notes:
—Rensin's essay for The Dispatch

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Jonah Goldberg analyzes the strategic chess match between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin before diving into the federal takeover of D.C.’s streets and the president’s takeover of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Show Notes:
—Kevin Williamson's Wanderland on postmodernists
—Jonah's G-File on postmodernists
—Megan McArdle in the Washington Post on crime
—Grayson Logue for The Dispatch: “What’s Next for the Bureau of Labor Statistics?”

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Jonah Goldberg invites Barry Strauss, author of Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire, to discuss the clashes between these two ancient worlds, focusing on key events like the Siege of Masada and the Bar Kokhba revolt. Discover how these uprisings not only challenged Roman authority but also shaped the cultural and political landscape of current events.

Show Notes:
—Read Strauss’ other books

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Dr. David Keith, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and founder of Carbon Engineering, joins Jonah Goldberg to explain the controversy surrounding geoengineering. They brainstorm ways to decarbonize the economy, argue over the fine print of climate policy, and wonder if humanity can fix the planet without accidentally turning it into a giant Easy-Bake Oven.

Show Notes:
—Dr. Keith's bio

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With his memory fading, Jonah Goldberg is fed up with his difficulty with remembering things, and pundits and politicians’ refusal to tell the truth. He ruminates over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Hamas acting as a prison gang, tariffs, and bias in the mainstream media.

Show Notes:
— Hamas G-File
 — Old Fictions, New Fictions G-FileT

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