Podcast Episodes

We Scold These Truths | Solo

Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the recent exchange between Ted Cruz and Tim Kaine on the celestial origins of rights, the idea of “heritage Americans,” and Donald Trump’s dying relationship with Modi.

Published on 1 day, 11 hours ago

Vice Week | Interview: Charles Fain Lehman

Vice week continues with Charles Fain Lehman, Manhattan Institute fellow and Dispatch contributing writer, joining Jonah Goldberg for a discussion on drug addiction, legalized gambling, and porn.

Sho…

Published on 3 days, 11 hours ago

The Whore House in Falls Church | Interview: Tim Carney

Tim Carney, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah Goldberg to unpack his latest investigative reporting on a local brothel, and they discuss the cronyism lurking behind tari…

Published on 4 days, 11 hours ago

The Coming GOP Civil War | Solo

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’…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Conserving Liberalism | Interview: Cass Sunstein

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), ex…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

What’s Going On Across the Pond? | Interview: Daniel Hannan

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:

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Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Cash and Character | Solo

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…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

When Harry Became Sally | Interview: Carole Hooven

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 …

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Pleading Insanity | Interview: Emmett Rensin

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 defe…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Déjà-Munich | Solo

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…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago