Can Congress be fixed? Is Breaking Bad the greatest TV show of all time? Can we fix this nation’s problems by installing pull-up bars in every airport? Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Cheese) joins The Remnant to answer these and other pressing questions.

Show Notes:

• There can be only one…
• Mike Gallagher – “How To Fix Congress” 
• Ben Sasse’s Kavanaugh rant 
• Politico – “138 things Trump did while you weren’t looking” 
• Yuval Levin – “Congress is weak because its members want it to be weak” 
• We made Steve Guttenberg a star…
• Wayne’s World on product placement
• Mitch McConnell’s floor speech starts at about 6:50:00 in this video
• Mike Gallagher on the Daily Standard with Charlie Sykes
• Mike Gallagher on the Ben Domenech Show 
• Me on Breaking Bad
• Me on Battlestar Galactica 
•  Them – Ben Sasse 
• Robert Nisbet – The Quest for Community 
• Arthur Ekirch – The Decline of American Liberalism  
• Charles Murray – What It Means To Be A Libertarian 
• Luke Thompson’s Pajamaboy cat 

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Is George Soros pure evil? Is nationalism? Why can’t Yale students use the term “master” anymore? Brookings Institution scholar and author of The End of Europe James Kirchick stops by The Remnant just before Thanksgiving to answer these and other pressing questions.

Shownotes:

• Podium.com/Dingo
• Conversations with Kristol 
• The End of Europe – James Kirchick 
• “The Truth About George Soros” – James Kirchick 
• Me on Fr. Coughlin 
• A niche podcast 
• What is Clause IV? 
• My tweet criticizing the GOP Twitter account 
• Edmund Burke’s speech to the electors at Bristol 
• In defense of Bill Kristol
• Bill Kristol conversation with Paul Cantor 
• The Yoram Hazony podcast 
• De Gaulle on patriotism vs. nationalism 
• Get NR Plus to read Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru on benign nationalism 
• “He hates these cans!” 
• Jack’s namesake
• Me on Tom Friedman’s China obsession
• James Kirchick breaks the news of Vaclav Havel’s lost Cato affiliation 
• National Review Institute’s Regional Fellowship Program
• Me on Fusionism today
• Requires an NR-Plus subscription 

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Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt rejoins The Remnant for a conversation on the midterms, the parties, and America’s political future.

Show Notes:

• Audible.com/dingo
• Stamps.com, type in Dingo
• I’ll Tell You What – this week’s episode 
• Sean Trende – “Was it a wave?” 
• Intelligence Squared debate on the future of the Democratic party
• Special “I’ll Tell You What” episode on populism with…me 
• Every Man A King – Chris Stirewalt 
• Suicide of the West – …me
• The latest G-File 
• Matt Continetti: “The Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual”
• Them – Ben Sasse 
• How America is getting less racist 
• The recent Geraghty Remnant 
• The Bad Popes – E.R. Chamberlin 
• Sign up for NRPlus to listen to the last Remnant with Chris Stirewalt

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In a bit of a change of pace for The Remnant, Jonah invites Manhattan Institute senior fellow and homelessness policy expert Stephen Eide onto the show to discuss what to do about the plight of the homeless.

Show Notes:

• “How to think about homelessness” – Stephen Eide
• Madness in the Streets 
• Larry Hogue, the mad man of 96th Street 
• The marriage premium vs. the college premium 
• Arthur Brooks on the Doe Fund
• Abandoned psychiatric hospitals 
• Brendan O’Flaherty on pandhandling
• More on Mitch Snyder 

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Did Beto blow it? Will the Republican party survive Trump? Is Jonah dyspeptic? The 69^th Remnant, with National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty, attempts to answer these and other pressing questions.

Show Notes:

• Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo
• Donorstrust.org/Dingo 
• Sign up for NR Plus to listen to the previous Jim Geragthy Remnant episode
• Butlerian Jihad 
• Geraghty on Trump and Camp of the Saints 
• Me on Hillary Clinton and the art of trolling 
• Reuters on Beto
• Jim Geragthy on Long-Shot Beto
• Tim Alberta – “Did Alberta Blow It”? 
• Geragthy on Cam Edwards’ show
• Me on how partisan we are while the parties are weak 
• Guy Benson vs. Mike Gallagher 
• The Party Decides 
• Me vs. Hugh Hewitt
• Mitch McConnell’s anti-McCain-Feingold remarks start at about 6:50:00 into this video.
• Buy Suicide of the West 
• Joy Behar on “Senate gerrymandering” 
• Duck-rabbit illusion
• Michael Brendan Dougherty on the case against Pope Francis
• Ramesh Ponnuru on the 2018 midterms as the most inconsequential election of our lifetimes
• My upcoming appearances
• The latest GLoP Culture podcast

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For the last Remnant before the midterms, Jonah invites Senator Ben Sasse (R-Corn) back to the Remnant to discuss Them, his new book about giant ants. Jonah also does some particularly pungent rank punditry.

Show Notes:

• Them – Ben Sasse 
• The Vanishing American Adult – Ben Sasse 
• Suicide of the West – Jonah Goldberg 
• Coming Apart – Charles Murray
• Judge Ho’s opinion on birthright citizenship
• What is a fatberg?
• Reihan on birthright citizenship
• The latest episode of The McCarthy Report
• Rich Lowry on the caravan 
• Don Lemon’s ouroboros
• Jonah on Planet Hawkins’ debut episode
• The guy who dressed up as Hobbes’ Leviathan for Halloween
• My AEI zombie video
• Sign up for NR Plus 

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Jonah invites National Review executive editor and author of the newly-released Melting Pot or Civil War onto The Remnant to discuss immigration, nationalism, solidarity, and his latent Bismarckian tendencies

Show Notes:

• Podium.com/dingo 
• National Review Editors podcast 
• Melting Pot or Civil War – Reihan Salam 
• National Review’s cover story/excerpt of Melting Pot or Civil War 
• Me supporting the Wall in 2006 
• Grand New Party by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
• Political Tribes by Amy Chua 
• F.A. Hayek on the Knowledge Problem 
• Whittaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged 
• Irving Kristol on censorship 
• Reihan Salam on why he’s still a neocon 
• Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
• Edmund Burke: “Society is a compact between the living, the dead, and the unborn.”
• G.K. Chesterton: “Tradition is the democracy of the dead.” 
• Me on They Live 
• Video from my event at UNC-Chapel Hill
• Jack’s Ricochet podcast, Young Americans
• Jack winning the 2018 Marine Corps 10k
• Jack’s performance in the 2017 Marine Corps Marathon
• National Review’s McCarthy Report podcast

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