On a special Halloween episode, Jonah speculates on the deepest fears of some of the most prominent people in public life.
Shownotes
–LA Times column from earlier this week
–Washington Post fact-check on Joe Biden’s military history
–The most recent David French episode
–The gender-swapped 2016 election
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AEI law-talker guy Adam White returns to the Remnant to try to make sense of Democrats’ attempt to impeach President Trump.
Shownotes
–Adam White and Stuart Taylor on presidential oversight
–Adam White on House oversight at the beginning of the year
–Adam White on the collision of constitutional powers
–Ramesh Ponnuru on misunderstanding Madison
–Untuckit.com, promo code DINGO
–LA Times column on why Trump should apologize
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Cato Institute ‘prosperity expert’ Marian Tupy joins the Remnant for a much-needed dose of economic optimism, enumerating the ways in which we are indisputably better off materially nowadays. He and Jonah also attempt to figure out why a sort of social malaise persists in the world despite this.
Shownotes
–Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute
–The Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley
–Max Roser – Our World In Data
–The Good News Is The Bad Is Wrong – Ben Wattenberg
–On the price elasticity of population
–Cato Institute conference on socialism and evolutionary psychology
–Lawrence Summers vs. Emmanuel Saez
–“No-no to Reno and Beto” – G-File on Rusty Reno
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Now Senior Editor for The Dispatch, the (in)famous David French joins the Remnant to discuss the French-Ahmari wars, Trump’s impeachment, the Deep State, the flaws of Elizabeth Warren, Joker, and more.
Shownotes
–David French responds to Sohrab Ahmari
–Charles Kesler, David French, Sohrab Ahmari
–David French on quids pro quo
–Megan McArdle on Elizabeth Warren’s bankruptcy claims
–Free Beacon on Elizabeth Warren
-On Elizabeth Warren’s inexcusable constitutional ignorance (Jonah, David)
-Follow The Remnant, and The Dispatch, on Twitter
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AEI Middle East expert Ken Pollack rejoins the Remnant to attempt to make sense of Trump’s decision with the Kurds and other aspects of U.S. policy of late.
Shownotes
–LA Times column on Trump winging it
–On the Trump cult of personality
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A discursive Remnant sees Jonah muse on both the serious (Syria, impeachment), the whimsical (threats from aliens and kaiju, the inadequacy of Conan’s workout on the Wheel of Pain), and much in between, with the help of sidekick Jack.
Shownotes
–John Quincy Adams on (not) going abroad in search of monsters to destroy
–Jeb Bush on killing Baby Hitler
–Reagan on the potential for unification from alien invasion
–A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy – Wesley J. Smith
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Jonah brings Mo Eleithee, the founding Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and a former high-ranking employee for the Democratic National Committee, for a productive (!) and civil (!!) conversation between two reasonably disagreeing adults about politics (!!!). They discuss the 2020 Democratic primary, Trump’s re-election prospects, and how the Democratic Party could lose what George H.W. Bush called “the Big Mo” by writing off white working-class voters.
Shownotes
–Mo Eleithee – Georgetown University
–Harry Enten on the hidden Democratic Party
–Homer runs for sanitation commissioner
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Jonah invites Steve Hayes back onto the Remnant to unveil The Dispatch, their long-teased new venture, of which Jonah is the editor-in-chief and Steve is the CEO. They also discuss the unfolding Ukraine drama and the recent news about the Kurds.
Shownotes
–More about The Dispatch in Axios
–Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress
-Follow Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) and Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey)
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Recovering from a cold and a madcap schedule, Jonah does a little punditry and a lot of storytelling.
Shownotes
–Untuckit.com, promo code DINGO
–Winston Churchill has nothing to hide
–How Biden’s connection to the Trump-Ukraine scandal could help him
–The most recent Ben Sasse episode
–Jake Tapper interviews Jim Jordan
–Asian teen has middle-aged man fetish
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