Will Howard Schultz be president? Is Gen Z worse than Millennials? Who will win the 2020 Democratic nomination? Noted augur Kristen Soltis Anderson returns to The Remnant to answer these and other questions.

Show Notes:

• Trade Builds America
• Ziprecruiter.com/Dingo
• Follow Kristen Soltis Anderson on Twitter
• Subscribe to NR Plus to listen to the last episode with Kristen Soltis Anderson
• Ditto for the referenced episode with Megan McArdle 
• Clay Routledge on people and dogs as kids
• Jonah’s response 
• Lee Drutman’s study of the 2016 electorate 
• The Five Types of Trump Voter – Emily Ekins
• The latest GLoP Culture podcast
• Pew’s survey on Gen Z 
• The Selfie Vote – Kristen Soltis Anderson
• The Pollsters, Kristen’s podcast
• How Trump could face a primary challenge – me 
• Trump caved – me 
• Conrad Black’s argument
• Kristen on Buttigeg 
• Me on AOC vs. Trump double standards
• Me in 2004 (!) on Kerry’s  “electability”
• Mitch’s prophecy starts around 6:50:00 in this video
• Bernie Sanders drunkenly and shirtless(ly?) singing in the Soviet Union
• Dog enjoys Turkish orchestra 
• My LA Times column this week
• Me on Glass

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Can we stop nukes from hitting us? Should we worry about North Korea? Where are all the lasers? Missile defense expert Tom Karako joins The Remnant to answer these and other important questions.

Show Notes:

• Buy shirts at Untuckit with promo code DINGO for 20 percent off
• Trade Builds America
• Thomas Karako’s CSIS biography
• Tarako on the Trump administration’s Missile Defense Review
• Youngstown Steel
• Are the Saudis building ballistic missiles? 
• Washington Post Article on MDR
• Buy Suicide of the West 
• Lincoln’s Lyceum Address
• Radiolab on Nuclear War
• Nuking the Moon
• Tom Karako on North Korea
• My endorsement of SMOD
• Heinz ketchup ad with “Anticipation” from 1979
• Trump’s 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt on the nuclear triad
• Trump on the nuclear triad in a 2015 Republican primary debate
• Republican primary debate: Donald Trump vs. Rand Paul on TPP 

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Jonah invites Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane onto The Remnant to discuss how he defeated Darth Vader, why journalism is so terrible right now, what the 2020 Democratic field looks like, and more.

Show Notes:

• Charles Lane’s Washington Post column 
• Shattered Glass 
• Steve Glass’ CPAC story
• Buy shirts at Untuckit with promo code DINGO for 20 percent off
• The Bulwark episode with Ian Bassin 
• Me on why the government can’t love you
• Trade Builds America
• Freedom’s Detective – Charles Lane
• A draft of the screenplay for Monica and Linda, in which Jonah briefly appears, described as “pudgy, quiet, strange”
• Nicolas Frankovich’s apology 
• Econtalk with Sebastian Junger
• Econtalk’s annual survey
• Tribe – Sebastian Junger
• Jack’s appearance on National Review’s Political Beats to talk ELO
• Charles Cooke’s Beatles Political Beats episode (first part;second part) (NR Plus subscription required)
• Phil Wegmann’s Creedence Clearwater Revival Political episode (NR Plus subscription required)
• Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne 
• Follow us at @jonahremnant
• C.H.U.D. 

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Jonathan Last, executive editor of The Bulwark and the last of the Sub-Beacon trio to appear on The Remnant, joins Jonah for a rollicking round of repartee about Trump, the Democrats, and Star Wars.

Show Notes:

• Behold: The Bulwark 
• The Bulwark podcast that mentions me 
• Albert Jay Nock on “Isaiah’s Job” 
• The Weekly Sub-Beacon
• “The riddle of steel” 
• My response to R.R. Reno 
• JVL on the Catholic bishops’ scandal 
• Emperor Sonny
• Me on NeverTrump 
• JVL on if Trump gets a primary challenge 
• The MacGuffinization of American politics 
• JVL on going to the dentist with Beto 
• JVL’s 2020 Democratic primary power rankings
• JVL on the case for Empire 
• JVL on the droid slaves of Star Wars
• Get NR Plus to listen to the Yuval Levin Remnant 

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Is the working class made of candy glass? Is Oren Cass wrong? Is the universe probabilistic? AEI economics scholar Michael Strain joins The Remnant to answer these and other questions.

Show Notes:

• The Oren Cass Remnant 
• The Once and Future Worker – Oren Cass
• Yuval Levin’s take on Tucker
• National Review’s Editors debate on their podcast
• Marco Rubio’s take
• Tucker Carlson’s monologue (in print and video)
• “The free market is not a tool” by me
• Buy Suicide of the West
• The Tyler Cowen Remnant

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Can the working class be saved? Should we fight China’s trade war depredations? Will Jonah survive jet lag? Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute scholar and author of The Once and Future Worker, joins 2019’s first Remnant to answer these and other questions.

Show Notes:

• The Once and Future Worker – Oren Cass 
• Oren’s argument, summarized by Oren
• Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center, in criticism (critical)
• Michael Strain of AEI (critical)
• Jim Pethokoukis (critical)
• Yuval Levin, in summary; on the controversy about the book
• Scott Winship, in partial dissent
• Oren Cass, in response to some of his critics
• “Our Miserable 21st Century” – Nicholas Eberstadt 
• Tucker Carlson’s monologue (in print and video)
• David French’s response
• Yuval Levin’s response
• Values Matter Most – Ben Wattenberg 
• “Stuck” – Ron Bailey
• “Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession” – Paul Krugman
• “Fight the Dragon” – Oren Cass
• “The Height of the Net” – Oren Cass
• “The Inequality Cycle” – Oren Cass
• “U-Topia” by me
• My response to Roger Kimball 

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